Talented Youth: Non-Fiction Reading List

*Albert Einstein: A Life of Genius, by Elizabeth MacLeod

*All Creatures Great and Small, by James Herriot

*All Things Bright and Beautiful, by James Herriot

An American Childhood, by Annie Dillard

*Apollo 13, by Jim Lovell

*Biomimicry: Inventions Inspired by Nature, by Dora Lee

*Black Potatoes: the Story of the Great Irish Famine, by Susan C. Bartoletti

This Boy’s Life: A Memoir, by Tobias Wolff

*Chew on this: Everything You Don’t Want to Know About Fast Food, by Eric Schlosser

*Children of the Dust Bowl: the True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp, by Jerry Stanley

*The Children of Topaz: the Story of a Japanese-American Internment Camp: based on a classroom diary, by Michael O. Tunnell and George W. Chilcoat

*Fields of Fury: the American Civil War, by James M. McPherson

*Hiroshima, by John Hersey

*I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou

*Left for Dead: a Young Man’s Search for Justice for the USS Indianapolis, by Pete Nelson

*Navajo Code Talkers, by Nathan Aaseng

*Phineas Gage: A Gruesome But True Story About Brain Science, by John Fleischman

The Plot to Kill Hitler: Dietrich Bonhoeffer: pastor, spy, unlikely hero, by Patricia McCormick

Really Professional Internet Person, by Jenn McAllister

*Red Scarf Girl: a Memoir of the Cultural Revolution, by Ji Li Jiang

*Red-Tail Angels: the Story of the Tuskegee Airmen of World War II, by Patricia and Frederick McKissack

Rejected Princesses: Tales of History's Boldest Heroines, Hellions, and Heretics by Jason Porath

*September 11, 2001: Attack on New York City, by Wilborn Hampton

The Sound of Wings: The Life of Amelia Earhart, by Mary S. Lovell

This Land Is Our Land: A History of American Immigration, by Linda Barrett Osborne

Uprooted: The Japanese American Experience During World War II, by Albert Marrin

Starred books are in Showalter LMC