Economics and money Adler, David A. Prices! Prices! Prices!: Why They Go Up and Down Gr. K–3, 4–6 32 pp. Holiday 2015 ISBN 978-0-8234-3293-6 Be Smart About Money and Financial Literacy series Gordon, Sherri Mabry Be Smart About Money: Money Management and Budgeting Middle school, high school 48 pp. Enslow 2014 Library binding ISBN 978-0-7660-4292-6 […]
Books mentioned in the September 2015 issue of Nonfiction Notes from the Horn Book
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Extracurriculars
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Albee, Sarah Why’d They Wear That? Middle school, high school 192 pp. National Geographic 2015 Albee comprehensively and conversationally examines how fashion has shaped history, and vice versa. Organized chronologically, the text explains how a trend or clothing item originated and what function it served, with numerous accompanying illustrations and photos; side boxes provide […]
Inventions and innovations
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Abramovitz, Melissa Amazing Feats of Biological Engineering Middle school, high school 112 pp. ABDO/Essential Library 2014 Carmichael, L. E. Amazing Feats of Civil Engineering Middle school, high school 112 pp. ABDO/Essential Library 2014 Smibert, Angie Amazing Feats of Aerospace Engineering Middle school, high school 112 pp. ABDO/Essential Library 2014 Swanson, Jennifer Amazing […]
Stories behind the stories
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Bird, Betsy, Danielson, Julie and Sieruta, Peter D. Wild Things!: Acts of Mischief in Children’s Literature Middle school, high school 277 pp. Candlewick 2014 Sieruta, a Horn Book mainstay before his unexpected death in 2012, is joined by Bird and Danielson for a lively historical survey of scandals and secrets from the children’s-book biz. Sandwiched […]
Social revolutionaries
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Alko, Selina The Case for Loving: The Fight for Interracial Marriage Gr. K–3 32 pp. Scholastic/Levine 2015 Richard Loving (white) and Mildred Jeter (black) fell in love and married, then were arrested for miscegenation. Their 1967 Supreme Court case legalized interracial marriage. Alko does a mostly admirable job of shaping the story (some terms […]
Economics and money
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Adler, David A. Prices! Prices! Prices!: Why They Go Up and Down Gr. K–3, 4–6 32 pp. Holiday 2015 A boy (and his dog) sets up a lemonade stand, selling his product over several days. The laws of supply and demand play out in solid, specific ways, and concepts of fixed and variable costs and […]
