Children's Nonfiction that Reads Like Fiction


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4.3 stars
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Discusses the international competition to create the first atomic bomb.
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Sibert Award winner Sally M. Walker crafts an engaging, middle-grade nonfiction narrative of the American Indian soldiers who bravely fought in the Civil War.
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4 stars
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Describes how a counterfeiting ring plotted to ransom Lincoln's body to secure the release of their imprisoned ringleader and how a fledging Secret Service and an undercover agent conducted a daring election-night sting operation.
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A history of the women's movement and the fight to ratify the 19th Amendment-giving women the right to vote in 1920.
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This narrative nonfiction work recounts the early years of air and space exploration and the daring exploits of America's first astronauts--both the men and women who were called upon to train.
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"A thrilling, fact-filled history of Niagara Falls, following its evolution from the age of dinosaurs to its future disintegration"--