Happy New Year from The Nonfiction Detectives! Here are some upcoming nonfiction titles that we're excited about reading in 2014. ...

Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker  by Patricia Hruby Powell illustrated by Christian Robinson Chronicle Books On shelves J...

The Animal Book: a collection of the fastest, fiercest, toughest, cleverest, shyest – and most surprising – animals on Earth By Steve Jenkin...

Randolph Caldecott: the Man Who Could Not Stop Drawing by Leonard S. Marcus Frances Foster Books, Farrar Straus Giroux. 2013 ISBN: 978037...

Horn Book released its 2013 Fanfare (best books) last week. Seven nonfiction titles graced the list this year. Librarians at the...

2013 was an unusual blogging year for The Nonfiction Detectives . I kept the blog running smoothly while Cathy served on the 2014 Sibert ...

Stay tuned for our Best of 2013… Coming on Monday, December 9. Find out which books rose to the top of the pile. 

After giving thanks and spending the day with family and friends many people are out fighting the Black Friday crowds looking for deal...

The Dolphins of Shark Bay: Scientists in the Field series By Pamela S. Turner; Photographs by Scott Tuason Houghton Mifflin; 2013 ISBN: 9...

Thank You, Sarah: The Woman Who Saved Thanksgiving   by Laurie Halse Anderson illustrated by Matt Faulkner Simon & Schuster Books for...

The Mad Potter: George E. Ohr, Eccentric Genius By Jan Greenberg  & Sandra Jordan Roaring Brook Press. 2013. 53 pgs. ISBN: 978159643...

March: Book One By John Lewis, Andrew Aydin; Illustrated by Nate Powell Top Shelf Publishing. 2013 ISBN: 9781603093002 Grades 8 and up ...

The Poppy Lady: Moina Belle Michael and Her Tribute to Veterans  by Barbara Walsh illustrated by Layne Johnson Calkins Creek, 2012 ISBN:...

For the Good of Mankind: the shameful history of human medical experimentation By Vicki Oransky Wittenstein Twenty-First Century Books. ...

The Boy on the Wooden Box: how the impossible became possible…on Schindler’s list A Memoir by Leon Leyson with Marilyn J. Harran * Elisab...

Aliens Are Coming!: The True Account of the 1938 War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast by Meghan McCarthy Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2006 ...

As Halloween draws near, we thought it fitting that Common Core: IRL focus on scary stories. Be sure to visit the following blogs today t...