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The Flag We Love

Pam Muñoz Ryan

Illustrator:

Ralph Masiello

Age Level:

6-9

Genre:

Nonfiction

When Marian Sang: The True Recital of Marian Anderson

Pam Muñoz Ryan

Illustrator:

Brian Selznick

Age Level:

6-9

Genre:

Biography, Nonfiction

Going to visit a big city on vacation? Think there’s nothing but concrete above and below? Well, think again! Readers are greeted by bagel-eating Skippy, an Eastern Gray Squirrel, and begin a complex, unexpected, revealing, and animated jaunt through and around New York City. The Big Apple comes alive in sophisticated, surprising ways through cartoons and photographs creatively placed on double page spreads.

Go Wild in New York City

Brad Matsen

Illustrator:

Paul Corio

Age Level:

6-9

Genre:

Nonfiction

I’m normal because I am a normal kid — going to school, being happy, getting homework, having a family. I’m not normal because I’m dyslexic… Thus begins the autobiography of an eleven-year-old boy who describes how he created a board game based on the popular Harry Potter series and entered it into his school’s yearly Invention Convention, where it became an instant hit.