First, some very sophisticated nonfiction:
Paleo Bugs: Survival of the Creepiest by Timothy J. Bradley. A shy and scientific 10 year old snatched this one up today and had to show me some of the truly creepy illustrations.
14 Cows for America by Carmen Agra Deedy. Read it aloud to older kids. Try not to choke up.
Way Up and Over Everything by Alice McGill.
You Never Heard of Sandy Kofax? by Jonah Winter.
Knucklehead: Tall Tales & Mostly True Stories About Growing Up Scieszka by Jon Scieszka.
We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball by Kadir Nelson.
Three Cups of Tea: Young Readers' Edition by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin.
How I Learned Geography by Uri Shulevitz (not quite nonfiction but autobiographical).
All Stations! Distress! April 15, 1912: The Day the Titanic Sank by Don Brown.
Some great read-aloud fiction:
Masterpiece by Elise Broach. A beetle who draws like Durer!
Savvy by Ingrid Law. What magical power would you like to acquire on your 13th birthday?
The Willoughbys by Lois Lowry. Sardonic take on orphans with laugh-out-loud parodies.
When the Sergeant Came Marching Home by Don Lemna. Comic family readjustment after WWII.
Madame Pampelmousse and Her Incredible Edibles by Rupert Kingfisher. A little girl introduced me to this delectable treat.
Away West by Patricia C. McKissack. Historical fiction about an early black cowboy.
And finally, one of the best choices for reading aloud to this age group, folklore:
The Girl Who Helped Thunder and Other Native American Folktales, retold by James and Joseph Bruchac.
The Beautiful Stories of Life: Six Greek Myths, retold by Cynthia Rylant.
Genies, Meanies and Magic Rings: Three Tales from the Arabian Nights, retold by Stephen Mitchell.
Lies and Other Tall Tales, collected by Zora Neale Hurston, adapted by Christopher Myers.
The McElderry Book of Greek Myths, retold by Eric Kimmel.
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