New Non-Fiction Books!

The Arrow Finds Its Mark: A Book of Found Poems- Presents poems by thirty contemporary poets that were created from words found in school notes, advertisements, street signs, Twitter feeds, and other unlikely sources.

Miles and Miles of Reptiles- The Cat in the Hat travels the world in his crocodile car to investigate the habitats and characteristics of lizards, snakes, turtles, and unique species of reptiles, such as komodo dragons, chameleons, and frilled lizards.

A Black Hole Is Not A Hole- Introduces black holes, describing their physical features, how they were discovered, what causes them, and where they exist in space. 

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind- When 14-year-old William Kamkwamba's Malawi village was hit by a drought in 2001, everyone's crops began to fail. His family didn't have enough money for food, let alone school, so William spent his days in the library. He came across a book on windmills and figured out how to build a windmill that could bring electricity to his village. Everyone thought he was crazy but William persevered and managed to create a functioning windmill out of junkyard scraps. Several years later he figured out how to use the windmill for irrigation purposes.

Touch the Sky- A biography of the first black woman to win an Olympic gold medal, from her childhood in segregated Albany, Georgia, in the 1930s, through her recognition at the 1996 Olympics as one of the hundred best athletes in Olympic history. Includes bibliographical references.

Mrs. Harkness and the Panda- Traces the story of a 1930s female adventurer who brought America its first panda bear, describing how she inherited a seemingly impossible expedition from her explorer husband and defied period conventions to travel up the Yangtze River and into the wilderness to bring back an adorable panda cub she named Su Lin, which means "a little bit of something cute."