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  • Category: Nonfiction Early Readers & Early Chapter Books
Nonfiction Early Readers & Early Chapter Books

How Tectonic Plates Shaped the Earth

How Tectonic Plates Shaped Earth by Jane P. Gardner (Jump, 2020; Earth Shapers series) an on-level early reader nonfiction book that fantastically covers the basics of tectonic plates using early reader vocabulary. It includes captions and labels for photos, a glossary of unfamiliar words, “Did you Know?” sidebars, and a sample project at the end.

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Fiction Early Readers & Early Chapter Books, Nonfiction Early Readers & Early Chapter Books

Hill of Fire by Thomas P. Lewis

The early reader Hill of Fire by Thomas P. Lewis and illustrated by Joan Sandin (HarperCollins, 1983) is an “I Can Read” level 4 reading level. It tells the fictionalized but true story of a farmer in Mexico who discovered a volcano in his field in 1943. In this fictionalized story, the farmer is given

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Nonfiction Early Readers & Early Chapter Books

Happy Pi Day to You! All About Measuring Circles by Bonnie Worth

Happy Pi Day to You! All About Measuring Circles (Cat in the Hat’s Learning Library) by Bonnie Worth, illustrated by Aristides Ruiz and Joe Mathieu. Happy Pi Day to You features The Cat and the Hat who helps introduce circles and pi to a few children using rhymes (which follow the ABAB pattern). A few of the rhymes are forced,

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Nonfiction Early Readers & Early Chapter Books

(Kid Review) A Girl Named Rosa

A Girl Named Rosa: The True Story of Rosa Parks by Denise Lewis Patrick (Scholastic, January 2018). I like this book because Rosa Parks was independent, and since at that time people said that blacks shouldn’t be as good as whites. They said that they couldn’t go to the same schools. They couldn’t sit in

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Middle Grade Nonfiction, Nonfiction Early Readers & Early Chapter Books

What is Poetry? by Trudi Strain Truit

What is Poetry? by Trudi Strain Truit (Lerner Publishing, September 2014) is an attractive nonfiction book for young readers or middle grade readers. It teaches common types of figurative language and common formats of poetry (free verse, rhyming, and so forth). Even better, it provides sample poems to demonstrate the concepts. It has large text for

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Nonfiction Early Readers & Early Chapter Books

Christopher Columbus by Stephen Krensky

One of the first “explorers” books about Christopher Columbus that my five-year-old son and I read for our homeschooling history year was Stephen Krensky’s early reader Christopher Columbus: Explorer and Colonist (originally published 1991). This was just what an early reader needs for nonfiction: easily accessible text, just enough information, and not too many pages. My

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Nonfiction Early Readers & Early Chapter Books

Rain Forests by Nancy Smiler Levinson

Rain Forests by Nancy Smiler Levinson, illustrated by Diane Dawn Hearn (Holiday House, 2008), is an early reader just perfect for my young son (age 4). There were tropical animals illustrated and labeled on each page, and the book covered rainforests around the world. Yet, there was not too much text on each page, and

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Nonfiction Early Readers & Early Chapter Books, Nonfiction Picture Books

Antarctica Picture Books

My son has been quite interested in maps and geography, so (even with the arrival of my newborn five weeks ago) we began a project of studying the continents, starting with Antarctica. Learning about the continent with a four-year-old prompted me to learn more myself: a few months ago, I posted about a Sally Walker

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Nonfiction Early Readers & Early Chapter Books

Early Bird Earth Science

Even though my second child was born in February, since January, my four-year-old and I have done a fair amount of “school at home,” which my son regularly asks for because he simply loves to learn. I hope that his interest continues because I’ve enjoyed learning with him. I discovered a fantastic series by Lerner

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Middle Grade Nonfiction, Nonfiction Early Readers & Early Chapter Books, Nonfiction Picture Books

Sibert Award

2020s2025 – Life After Whale: The Amazing Ecosystem of a Whale Fall by Lynn Brunelle and illustrated by Jason ChinCall Me Roberto!: Roberto Clemente Goes to Bat for Latinos by Nathalie Alonso, illustrated by Rudy Gutierrez The Enigma Girls: How Ten Teenagers Broke Ciphers, Kept Secrets, and Helped Win World War II by Candace Fleming The Girl Who

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