6-8 Dogwood Titles

2024 6-8 Dogwood Titles

2023 6-8 Dogwood Titles

Title Author(s) Illustrator(s)

Alias Anna: A True Story of Outwitting Susan Hood & Greg Dawson 

the Nazis     


American Murderer: The Parasite that Gail Jarrow

Haunted the South

(Medical Fiascoes series)


Animated Science: Rocks & Minerals John Farndon Shiho Pate


Buildings that Breathe: Greening the Nancy Castaldo

World's Cities


Call Him Jack: The Story of Jackie Robinson, Yohuru Williams & Michael G. Long

Black Freedom Fighter


Close-Up on War: The Story of Pioneering Mary Cronk Farrell

Photojournalist Catherine Leroy in Vietnam


Fashionopolis (Young Readers Edition) Dana Thomas

The Secrets Behind Clothes We Wear


Fresh Air, Clean Water: Our Right to a Healthy Megan Celendenan Julie McLaughlin

Environment (Orca Think Series)


Girls Who Green the World: Thirty-Four Rebel Diana Kapp Ana Jaren

Women Out to Save Our Planet


I Will Protect You: A True Story of Twins Who Eva M. Kor (w/ Danica Davidson)

Survived Auschwitz


Inaugural Ballers: The True Story of the First Andrew Maraniss 

US Women's Olympic Basketball Team


Maybe an Artist, A Graphic Memoir Liz Montague


Muhammad Najem: War Reporter: How One Boy Muhammad Najem & Nora Neua Julie Robine (artist)

Put a Spotlight on Syria


Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Candacy Taylor

Roots of Black Travel in America 

(Young Readers Adaption)


Peace is a Chain Reaction: How WWII Japanese Tanya Lee Stone

Balloon Bombs Brought People of Two Nations

Together


The Race of the Century: The Battle to Break Neal Bascomb

the Four-Minute Mile


The Woman Who Split the Atom: The Life of Marissa Moss

Lise Meitner


Unlawful Orders: A Portrait of Dr. James B. Barbara Binns

Williams, Tuskegee Airman, Surgeon, & Activists


Urgent Message for a Hot Planet: Navigating the Ann Eriksson Belle Wuthrich

Climate Crisis (Orca Issues Series)


Where Have all the Birds Gone? Nature in Crisis Rebecca Hirsch


2022 6-8 Dogwood Titles


2021 6-8 Dogwood Titles

Title                                                                                          Author                               Publisher


On the Horizon Lois Lowry HMH

Torpedoed: The True Story of the World War II Sinking 

of "The Children's Ship" Deborah Heiligman Henry Holt

1919: The Year That Changed America Martin W. Sandler Bloomsbury

Monstrous: The Lore, Gore and Science Behind 

Your Favorite Monsters Carlyn Beccia Carolrhoda

The Poison Eaters: Fighting Danger and Fraud 

in our Food and Drugs Gail Jarrow Boyds Mills

This Promise of Change: One Girl's Story 

in the Fight for School Equality Jo Ann Allen Boyce and Debbie Levy Bloomsbury

Poisoned Water: How the Citizens of Flint, Michigan

Fought for Their Lives and Warned the Nation Candy J Cooper Bloomsbury Children's Book

Monument Maker: Daniel Chester French 

and the Lincoln Memorial Linda Booth Sweeney Tilbury House Publishers

Enemy Child: The Story of Norman Mineta, a Boy Imprisoned 

in a Japanese American Internment Camp During World War II Andrea Warren Margaret Ferguson Books

Blood and Germs: The Civil War Battle Against 

Wounds and Disease Gail Jarrow Astra Publishing House

Born to Fly: The First Women's Air Race Across America Steve Sheinkin Roaring Brook Press

Chance: Escape from the Holocaust Uri Shulevitz Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Disaster Strikes!: The Most Dangerous Space 

Missions of All Time Jeffrey Kluger Philomel

Fever Year: The Killer Flu of 1918 Don Brown HMH Books for Young Readers

Lifting as we Climb: Black Women's Battle for the Ballot Box Evette Dionne Viking

Suffragette: The Battle for Equality David Roberts Candlewick

Thank You For Coming To My Ted Talk Chris Anderson HMH

The Magnificent Migration: On Safari with Africa's 

Last Great Herds Sy Montgomery HMH

You Call This Democracy? 

How to Fix Our Government and Deliver Power to the People Elizabeth Rusch HMH

Rising Water : The Story of the Thai Cave Rescue Marc Aronson Athenuem Books