what’s new in nonfiction trade books ? rachelle loven rachelle.loven@usiouxfalls.edu

What’s New In Nonfiction Trade Books?

Rachelle LovenRachelle.loven@usiouxfalls.edu

ALEXANDER, SALLY HOBART.(2008)

She Touched the World: Laura Bridgman, Deaf-Blind

Pioneer. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

BARAKAT, IBTISAM. (2007)

Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood.

New York: Fara, Straus and Giroux.

BARDHAN-QUALLEN, SUDIPTA(2008)

Up Close: Jane GoodallNew York: Viking.

BECCIA, CARLYN. (2008)

The Raucous Royals: Test your Royal Wits: Crack

Codes, Solve Mysteries, and Deduce which Royal Rumors

are True.Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

BOLDEN, TANYA. (2007)

MLK: Journey of a KingNew York: Abrams.

BOLDEN, TANYA. (2008)

George Washington Carver.New York: Abrams.

BURNS, LOREE GRIFFIN.(2007)

Tracking Trash: Flotsam, Jetsam, and the Science of

Ocean MotionBoston: Houghton Mifflin.

Describes the work of a man who tracks trash as it travels great distances by way of ocean currents.

BUTZER, C.M. (2009)

Gettysburg, the Graphic Novel.

New York: HarperCollins.

COLLARD, SNEED B.(2008)

Science Warriors: The Battle Against Invasive Species

Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

CROWE, CHRIS. (2008)

Up Close: Thurgood Marshall.

New York: Viking.

DELANO, MARFE FERGUSON.

(2008) Helen’s Eye’s: A

Photobiography of Annie Sullivan, Hellen Keller’s

Teacher.Washington, DC: National

Geographic.

DEEM, JAMES M. (2008)

Bodies from the Ice: Melting Glaciers and the Recovery of

the past.Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

DENENBERG, BERRY.(2008)

Lincoln Shot: A President’s Life.

New York: Feiwel & Friends.

FLEISCHMAN, SID. (2008)

The Trouble Begins at 8: A Life of Mark Twain in the

Wild, Wild West.New York: Greenwillow.

FLEMING, CANDACE.(2008)

The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Looks at Abraham and

Mary.New York: Schwartz & Wade

Books.

FREEDMAN, RUSSELL. (2008)

Washington at Valley Forge.New York: Holiday House.

GOLDBERG, ENID.(2008)

Genghis Khan: 13th-Century Mongolian Tyrant.

New York: Scholastic.

HALLS, KELLY MILNER. (2007)

Mysteries of the Mummy Kids.

Plain City, OH: Darby Creek.

HARNESS, CHERYL.(2008)

The Groundbreaking, Chance-Taking Life of

George Washington Carver. Washington, DC: National

Geographic.

HATTON, CAROLINE. (2008)

The Night Olympic Team: Fighting to Keep Drugs Out

of the Games.Honesdale, PA: Boyd Mills

Press.

MARGULIES, PHILLIP & MAXINE ROSALER.

(2008)The Devil on Trail: Witches,

Anarchists, Atheists, Communists, and Terrorists in America’s Courtrooms.Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

MCCLAFFERTY, CARLA KILLOUGH.

(2008) In Defiance of Hitler: The

Secret Mission of the Varian Fry.

New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux.

MCCULLY, EMILY ARNOLD. (2008)

My Heart Glow: Alice Cogswell, Thomas

Gallaudet, and the Birth of American Sign Language.

New York: Fara, Straus and New York: Hyperion

MELTZER, MILTON(2008)

Up Close: John Steinbeck. New York: Viking.

MONTGOMERY, SY. (2006)

Quest for the Tree Kangaroo: An Expedition to

the Cloud Forest of New Guinea.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Follow a group of explorers and scientists as they travel to Papua New Guinea to find a type of kangaroo that lives in trees.

NELSON, KADIR.(2008)

We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball.

New York: Hyperion.

Using an "Everyman" player as his narrator, Kadir Nelson tells the story of Negro League baseball from its beginnings in the 1920s through the

decline after Jackie Robinson crossed over to the majors in 1947.

NELSON, SCOTT R., & MARC ARONSON.

(2008)Ain’t Nothing But A Man: My Quest to Find the Real

John HenryWashington, DC: National

Geographic.

NIVOLA, CLAIRE.(2008)

Planting the Trees of Kenya: the Story of Wangari

Maathai. New York: Farrar, Strauss,

and Giroux.

REICH, SUSANNA. (2008)

Painting the Wild Frontier: the Art and Adventures of

George Catlin.New York: Clarion.

SANDLER MARTIN.(2008)

Lincoln through the Lens: How Photography Revealed

and Shaped an Extraordinary Life. New York: Walker.

SCIESZKA, JON. (2008)

Knucklehead: The Tales & Mostly True Stories about

Growing Up Scieszka.New York: Viking.

SHIELDS, CHARLES .(2008)

I am Scout: The Biography of Harper Lee.

New York: Henry Holt.

STOKES, JOHN A., & LOIS WOLFE. (2008)

Students on Strike: Jim Crow, Civil Rights, Brown, and Me.

Washington, DC: National Geographic.

SWANSON, JAMES L.(2009)

Chasing Lincoln’s Killer: The Search for John Wilkes Book.

New York: Scholastic.

TEMPLE, BOB. (2008)

The Titanic: An Interactive History Adventure.

Mankato, MN: Capston Press.

Describes the events surrounding the sinking of the ship Titanic in 1912.

TUNER, PAMELA S.(2008)

A Life in the Wild: George Schaller’s Struggle to Save

the Last Great Beast. New York: Farrar, Straus, and

Giroux.

WEATHERFORD, CAROLE BOSTON.

(2008)I, Matthew Henson: Polar

Explorer.New York: Walker.