Media Center Memo
Spring 2014
NEW NONFICTION
LOTS of new nonfiction titles! How can you use these in your classroom to support your curriculum? How can you use your FABULOUS comm arts coworkers to help you teach these texts. . . ?
ART
Go: A Kidd's Guide to Graphic Design
Drawing the Heroes in Your Graphic Novel
Harlem Renaissance Artists and Writers
BIOGRAPHIES
Women of Steel and Stone: 22 Inspirational Architects, Engineers, and Landscape Designers
Knucklehead: Tall Tales and Mostly True Stories of Growing of Scieszka (author Jon Scieszka)
Tales of Famous Heroes
Wild Boy: The Real Life of the Savage of Aveyron
Diego Rivera: An Artist for the People
Navy Seal Dogs
Etched in Clay: The Life of Dave, Enslaved Potter and Poet
Prince Harry
Top 101 Remarkable Women
Fighting U.S. Generals of World War II
Amazing American Inventors of the 20th Century
Women Inventors
CAREERS
Cool Careers Without College series: For People Who Love Nature/Love Animals/Love Music/Can Build Things/Cook and Eat/Are Really Good at Science and Math
Pharmaceutical Sales
Construction
Landscaping and Gardening
COMM ARTS
Time for Kids Grammar Rules
Gods and Goddesses of Mythology series: Egyptian/Greek/Mesopotamian/Roman
World of Myths and Legends
World of Gods and Goddesses
Telling the Story in Your Graphic Novel
Dizzy In Your Eyes: Poems About Love
FACS
Miss Kay's Duck Commander Kitchen
Healthy Fast Foods
Eating Out: How to Order in Restaurants
Diet Myths: Sorting Through the Hype
FUN READS
Super Pop! Pop Culture Top Ten Lists to Help You Win at Trivia, Survive in the Wild, And Make It Through the Holidays
Guiness Book of World Records 2014
Ripley's Believe It Or Not
Strange Mysteries of Unexplained
Time for Kids: Big Book of Why, 1001 Facts Kids Want to Know
Duck Commander series: Si-cology 101/Duck Commander Family/Happy, Happy, Happy
Cultural Milestones of the 2000s
Catastrophic Events of the 2000s
Superbikes: Machines of Dreams
HISTORY/SOCIAL STUDIES
The Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World's Most Notorious Nazi
The President Has Been Shot!: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy
Disasters: The Biggest Disasters in History from Salt in the Indus Valley to Hurricane Sandy
The Boston Marathon Bombing
The Newtown School Shooting
Girl from the Tar Paper School: Barbara Rose Johns and the Advent of the Civil Rights Movement
Angel Island: Gateway to Gold Mountain
Student Atlas
Searching for Sarah Rector: The Richest Black Girl in America
History Year by Year
Liberation: Stories of Survival from the Holocaust
Rescuing the Danish Jews: A Heroic Story from the Holocaust
Machines and Weaponry from WWII
Mummification
Ancient Egyptians
Vietnam series: Causes and Outbreak/War and U.S. Society/Experience of the War
Horrible Jobs series: Ancient Egypt/Ancient Greece and Rome/Colonial Times
Technology in Ancient Egypt
Hope and Tears: Ellis Island Voice
Buried Beneath Us: Discovering the Ancient Cities of the Americas
Freedom Summer: The 1964 Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi
MATH
We've Got Your Number: Why Everything is the Universe is Numbers. . . Including YOU
Mathematics Explained
MUSIC
Music: Investigate the Evolution of American Sound
Popular Music Through the Decades series : Birth of Rock and Roll/Sounds of Rebellion/Disco, Punk, New Wave, Heavy Metal and More/Alternative, Country, Hip-Hop, Rap and More
Top 101 Musicians
Innovators of American Jazz
Legends, Icons, and Rebels: Music That Changed the World
SCIENCE
Tales of Famous Animals
Medical Inventions: The Best of Health
Transportation Inventions: Moving Our World Forward
Mythbusters Science Fair Book #2: Confirm or Bust!
Deadly Animals
Eruption: Volcanoes and the Science of Saving Lives
The Tapir Scientist: Saving South America's Largest Mammal
Primates: The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey and Birute Galdikas
How Do You Burp in Space? And Other Tips Every Space Tourist Needs to Know
Natural History Museum Book of Animal Records
Recycle: Green Science Projects for A Sustainable Planet
Water: Green Science Projects for a Sustainable Planet
Planet Earth Explained
Estuaries
Coral Reefs
Before The World Was Ready: Stories of Daring Genius in Science
SPORTS
Fourth Down and Inches: Concussions and Football's Make-Or-Break Moment