Nonfiction Books for Teens
Information, humor, history, biography, art and how-to, all here. MS=Books for middle school readers (Updated October 2019)
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Chasing Space
An injury sidelined his football career and a ruptured eardrum almost ended his astronaut dreams. These challenges never stopped Leland Melvin from becoming the only person to both be drafted by the NFL and walk in space. MS
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Proud
Read the powerful story of the Olympic fencer who broke barriers as the first American to compete wearing a hijab and the first Muslim American woman to the win an Olympic medal.
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#NotYourPrincess
What does it mean to be an Indigenous woman? Find out in this collection of poems, essays, interviews, and original art.
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Period Power
Founder of period.org, Nadya Okamoto breaks the stigma of talking about periods and speaks up for the rights of women to access period products.
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The Orca Scientists
Go into the field with Puget Sound whale biologists as they try to understand and protect these endangered marine mammals. MS
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Queer, There, and Everywhere
You may have heard of Harvey Milk and George Takei, but history is filled with pioneering LGBTQ trailblazers, activists and inventors whose stories we need to hear.
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I Have the Right to
The numbers are staggering: nearly one in five girls ages 14 to 17 have been the victim of a sexual assault or attempted sexual assault. This is the true story of one of those girls.
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Photographic
Mixing photography, words and illustrations, this graphic novel tells the story of the extraordinary Mexican photographer, Graciela Iturbide
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Americanized
Sara Saedi, a straight-A students, found out she was undocumented when she was 13. Her memoir is a mix of typical teenager antics and fear of being deported at any moment.
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Undefeated
Jim Thorpe was one of the first true football stars, and set records that stood for decades. So why were his Olympic medals taken away?
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