My students need nonfiction books that catch their attention! Books like The Nazi Hunters, How They Croaked, and Ghost Liners show that nonfiction does not mean textbook
By the end of the year, I want all students I work with to love books, and not all students will learn to love books with novels.
I work with high school students who are reading at least 3 years below grade level.
This means that they are interested in history, science, etc but can't yet access that information from high school textbooks. They often think that reading is boring because they open a book from a teacher, can't follow it or read too slowly to get into it, and give up by the end of the first chapter.
The school I work at is college prep, and over 75% of the students will be the first in their family to go to college. About the same percentage are at or below the poverty line (free or reduced lunch). They all deserve a high quality education and a room full of books they will love and can read.
My Project
At my school, we have SSR when all students read whatever they want. The problem is that they can only choose from the books we have and as a small school our collection is small, especially nonfiction. I find that many, especially young men, aren't drawn to the books we have since almost all are novels.
Every book we have is a chance for another student to fall in love with reading.
Every book is another chance for a student to learn something new by themselves, without the help of an adult. For the fact finding, information lover nonfiction books could be the tool!
Elephant Talk: The Surprising Science of Elephant Communication
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$29.93
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Man vs. Wild: Survival Techniques from the Most Dangerous Places on Earth
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$19.74
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$19.74
Courage Has No Color, The True Story of the Triple Nickles: America's First Black Paratroopers (Junior Library Guild Selection (Candlewick Press))
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$17.58
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$17.58
Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard
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$15.99
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$15.99
The Good, the Bad, and the Barbie: A Doll's History and Her Impact on Us
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$15.76
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$15.76
They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group
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$15.31
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Invincible Microbe: Tuberculosis and the Never-Ending Search for a Cure
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$14.50
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Spies of Mississippi: The True Story of the Spy Network that Tried to Destroy the Civil Rights Movement
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$14.49
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Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science
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$14.40
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$14.40
Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream
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$13.86
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Can I See Your I.D.?: True Stories of False Identities
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$13.59
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Witches: The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem
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$13.47
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$13.47
Bomb: The Race to Build--and Steal--the World's Most Dangerous Weapon (Newbery Honor Book)
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$12.95
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$12.95
Dear Teen Me: Authors Write Letters to Their Teen Selves (True Stories)
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$12.33
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$12.33
The Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World's Most Notorious Nazi
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$12.23
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Sleeping With Ghosts!: A Ghost Hunter's Guide To Arizona's Haunted Hotels And Inns
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$11.13
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Go: A Kidd's Guide to Graphic Design
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$10.77
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Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
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$9.15
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$9.15
Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
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$9.13
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$9.13
The Dark Game: True Spy Stories from Invisible Ink to CIA Moles
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$8.99
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Dear Bully: Seventy Authors Tell Their Stories
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$8.99
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The Year We Disappeared: A Father - Daughter Memoir
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$8.99
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How They Croaked: The Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous
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Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
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Three Little Words: A Memoir
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Children of War: Voices of Iraqi Refugees
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I Can't Keep My Own Secrets: Six-Word Memoirs by Teens Famous & Obscure
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$8.09
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101 Ways to Be Smart About Money
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$8.09
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I Am a SEAL Team Six Warrior: Memoirs of an American Soldier
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$7.19
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$7.19
True Stories of World War I (Stories of War)
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$7.16
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$7.16
Earthquakes
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$6.29
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$6.29
Grigory Rasputin: Holy Man or Mad Monk? (Wicked History)
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$5.35
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Adolf Hitler (Wicked History)
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$4.86
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Joseph Stalin (Wicked History)
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$4.86
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$390.83
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