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Recommended Nonfiction for Grades 4+

Great nonfiction books for kids in grades 4 and up!

Chapel Hill Public Library

27 items

  • All That Trash

    the Story of the 1987 Garbage Barge and Our Problem With Stuff

    McCarthy, Meghan,
    BookNew York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2018 — J 386.244 McCa
  • Basketball Belles

    How Two Teams and One Scrappy Player Put Women's Hoops on the Map

    Macy, Sue
    BookNew York : Holiday House, [2011] — J 796.323 Macy
  • BookBoston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018 — J 599.37 Poli
  • Bomb

    the Race to Build - and Steal - the World's Most Dangerous Weapon

    Sheinkin, Steve
    BookNew York : Roaring Brook Press, [2012] — J 623.4511 Shei
  • The Girl Who Drew Butterflies

    How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science

    Sidman, Joyce,
    BookBoston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018 — JB Merian
  • Go

    a Kidd's Guide to Graphic Design

    Kidd, Chip
    BookNew York : Workman Publishing, [2013] — J 740 Kidd
  • How They Croaked

    the Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous

    Bragg, Georgia
    BookNew York : Walker & Co., [2011] — J 920 Brag
  • Josephine

    the Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker

    Powell, Patricia Hruby, 1951-
    BookSan Francisco : Chronicle Books, [2014] — JB Baker
  • BookNew York : Scholastic Press, 2018 — J 811.6 Pink
  • BookHonesdale, Pennsylvania : Boyds Mills Press, an imprint of Highlights, [2014] — J 516.15 Camp
  • Secrets of a Civil War Submarine

    Solving the Mysteries of the H.L. Hunley

    Walker, Sally M
    BookMinneapolis : Carolrhoda Books, [2005] — J 973.757 Wal
  • Temple Grandin

    How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World

    Montgomery, Sy
    BookBoston : Houghton Mifflin Books for Children/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2012] — JB Grandin