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Best Informational Books for Younger Readers of 2015

We recommend these as the very best nonfiction books published for kids in Kindergarten through 3rd grade in 2015.

Chicago Public Library

32 items

  • BookNew York : Enchanted Lion Books, 2015. — PN6110.A7B38 2015
  • The Book Itch

    Freedom, Truth, & Harlem's Greatest Bookstore

    Nelson, Vaunda Micheaux,
    BookMinneapolis : Carolrhoda Books, [2015] — FICTION
  • The Case for Loving

    the Fight for Interracial Marriage

    Alko, Selina,
    BookNew York, NY : Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc., [2015] — HQ1031.A45 2015
  • PaperbackNew York : Simon Spotlight, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division, 2015. — QC926.37R36 2015
  • Drum Dream Girl

    How One Girl's Courage Changed Music

    Engle, Margarita,
    BookBoston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2015] — FICTION
  • Earmuffs for Everyone!

    How Chester Greenwood Became Known as the Inventor of Earmuffs

    McCarthy, Meghan,
    BookNew York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, [2015] — T40.G67M33 2015
  • Emmanuel's Dream

    the True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah

    Thompson, Laurie Ann,
    BookNew York : Schwartz & Wade Books, 2015. — HV3013.Y43T56 2015
  • BookNew York : Holiday House, [2015] — HQ744.R68 2015
  • Gordon Parks

    How the Photographer Captured Black and White America

    Weatherford, Carole Boston, 1956-
    BookChicago, Illinois : Albert Whitman & Company, [2015] — TR140.P35W43 2015
  • BookSomerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2015. — GV865.M355T38 2015
  • BookNew York : Henry Holt and Company, 2015. — HV40.32.A33S76 2015
  • How to Swallow a Pig

    Step-by-step Advice From the Animal Kingdom

    Jenkins, Steve, 1952-2021
    BookBoston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2015] — QL751.5.J46 2015
  • The Inventor's Secret

    What Thomas Edison Told Henry Ford

    Slade, Suzanne,
    BookWatertown, MA : Charlesbridge, [2015] — T39.S56 2015
  • Lillian's Right to Vote

    a Celebration of the Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Winter, Jonah, 1962-
    BookNew York : Schwartz & Wade Books, [2015] — FICTION