As Seen at ALA Annual (Part 1)

Part One

We are back from the 2018 American Library Association Annual Conference. This year we traveled to New Orleans where we sampled lots of amazing food including pastries at Le Croissant d'Or on Ursulines Street. While we were at the conference, we both spent time looking for interesting nonfiction titles for kids. Here are some 2018 nonfiction books that caught our attention in the exhibits and at publisher preview events. Thanks to all of the publishers who took time to talk about upcoming titles, provided us with review copies and invited us to book previews.

Cathy and Louise

Bonnie and Clyde: The Making of a Legend

by Karen Blumenthal

Viking Children's Books

Release Date: August 1

Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad

by Ann Petry

 Harper Collins

Release Date: September 4

Sea Creatures 

by Seymour Simon

Harper Collins

Release Date: June 26

Everything & Everywhere

by Marc Martin

 Chronicle Books

Release Date: October 9

Lights! Camera! Alice!

by Mara Rockliff

Chronicle Books

Release Date: September 4

Never Too Young!: 50 Unstoppable Kids Who Made a Difference 

by Aileen Weintraub

Sterling Children's Books

Release Date: September 4

Heroes of Dunkirk 

by Lisa L. Owens

Lerner

Release Date: August 1

Pandemic: How Climate, the Environment, and Superbugs Increase the Risk 

by Connie Goldsmith 

Twenty-First Century Books

Release Date: August 1

Eavesdropping on Elephants

by Patricia Newman 

Millbrook Press

Release Date: August 1

The Great Rhino Rescue

by Sandra Markle

Millbrook Press

Release Date: August 1

The Vast Wonder of the World: Biologist Ernest Everett Just

by Melina Mangal 

Millbrook Press

Release Date: November 1

 Thirty Minutes Over Oregon

by Marc Tyler Nobleman

Clarion Books

Release Date: October 9

The Orca Scientists 

by Kim Perez Valice 

HMH Books for Young Readers

Release Date: July 24

Girls Think of Everything

by Catherine Thimmesh 

HMH Books for Young Readers

Release date: October 9

New edition with updated content!

Backyard Bears

by Amy Cherrix 

HMH Books for Young Readers

Release Date: October 23

 The Strange True Tale of Frankensteins's Creator Mary Shelley

by Catherine Reef

Clarion Books

Release Date: September 18

The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees

by Don Brown 

HMH Books for Young Readers

Release Date: September 18

Unpunished Murder: Massacre at Colfax and the Quest for Justice

by Lawrence Goldstone 

Scholastic Focus (new imprint)

Release Date: August 28

The Grand Escape

by Neal Bascomb

Scholastic Focus (new imprint)

Release Date: September 25

Blacklisted!

by Larry Dane Brimmer 

Calkins Creek

Release Date: October 9

Spooked!: How Radio Sparked the 1938 Invasion of America

by Gail Jarrow

Calkins Creek

Release Date: August 7 

So Tall Within: Sojourner Truth's Long Walk to Freedom 

by Gary D. Schmidt

Roaring Brook Press

Release Date: September 25

Spring After Spring: How Rachel Carson Inspired the Environmental  Movement

by Stephanie Roth Sisson

Roaring Brook Press

Release Date: August 14

Attucks!: Oscar Robertson and the Basketball Team That Awakened a City

by Phillip House

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Release Date: October 23

Undocumented: A Worker's Fight

by Duncan Tonatiuh

Abrams ComicArts

Release Date: August 7

Pipsqueaks, Slowpokes and Stinkers: Celebrating Animal Underdogs

by Melissa Stewart

Peachtree Publishers

Release Date: September 1

Bold & Brave: Ten Heroes Who Won Women the Right to Vote

by Kirsten Gillibrand

Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers

Release Date: November 13


Check back on Thursday for Part Two of our #alaac18 nonfiction sightings!