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Unique Nonfiction for Summer Reads

Just like adults, some kids love to read books about things that are true. Here are a few new books on unique topics to feed that curiosity!

How to Speak Flower: A Kid's Guide to Buds, Blooms, and Blossoms by Molly Williams

 

 

 

 

Timelines of Nature by Steven Carton and others

 

 

 

 

Some of These are Snails by Carter Higgins

 

 

 

 

Exoplanets: A Guide to the Worlds Outside Our Solar System by Wendy Bjazevich

 

 

 

 

Spark, Shine, Glow! What a Light Show by Lola M. Schaefer

 

 

 

 

Glow: The Wild Wonders of Bioluminescence by Jennifer N.R. Smith

 

 

 

 

Unseen Jungle: The Microbes That Secretly Control Our World by Eleanor Spicer Rice, PhD

 

 

 

 

Listen to the Language of the Trees: A Story of How Forests Communicate Underground by Tera Kelley

 

 

 

 

Wonderfully Wired Brains by Louise Gooding

 

 

 

 

 

 

Questions or need more ideas? Email imagine@thelibrary.org

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