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The Catalogue

Pick a bar to narrow the shelf. Every panel below follows the same filter — the two charts, the plot, and the list of books — and each bar says how many books choosing it would leave you with.

3815 books on the shelf

3815 filed under a genre

16 genres

6 with no recorded year

For the same counts drawn as figures, see Statistics.

6 of them record no publication year at all — show those books.

Showing 84 of 3815 books, filtered by Nonfiction 2010–19 Number of pages up to 120 Clear all

Titles by genre

Each bar counts the books of that genre which survive the year filter, so it says what picking that genre would leave you with. The 0 books filed under no genre at all are in no bar here.

Titles by year published

The whole timeline, back to the catalogue's oldest book. The bars widen as they go back, because equal-width bars across four thousand years would press everything before 1900 into a single pixel — where the statistics page leaves those books out of its chart and says so in the caption, the explorer has to be able to reach them, so its bars change width instead of stopping. Each bar counts the books of that era which survive the genre filter.

Two measures at a time

The books above, as dots. 97 of the 156 carry both measures and can be plotted; a book missing a measure has no place on that axis, so it is left off rather than drawn at zero. Each axis covers the middle 98% of what is shown, with 1 books outside the frame.

The dots outside your ranges are still drawn, faded, so that you can see what you are narrowing from; the bars above and the list below obey the ranges. 27 of the 156 books in view carry no measure on a ranged axis, so no range can place them — take the ranges off to see them.

Point at a dot to see which book it is, and where it sits on each axis. Click one to open that book's own page of neighbours — the same book, in the middle of a map, with the books closest to it around it.

Horizontal axis

Vertical axis

Number of pages

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Word count

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The 84 books that match

A Black Hole Is Not a Hole by Carolyn Cinami DeCristofano, 2012 Nonfiction
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900L

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6.1

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
A Chicken Followed Me Home: Questions and Answers about a Familiar Fowl by Robin Page, 2015 Nonfiction
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710L

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3.5

AR Interest: LG (K–3)
A Child's Introduction to the Orchestra by Robert Levine, 2019 Nonfiction
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Billions of Years, Amazing Changes: The Story of Evolution by Laurence Pringle, 2011 Nonfiction
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1000L

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7.5

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Blue Sky White Stars by Sarvinder Naberhaus, 2017 Nonfiction
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Bones: Skeletons and How They Work by Steve Jenkins, 2010 Nonfiction
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980L

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5.6

AR Interest: LG (K–3)
Camp Panda: Helping Cubs Return to the Wild by Catherine Thimmesh, 2018 Nonfiction
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1260L

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8.4

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Candy Bomber by Michael O. Tunnell, 2010 Nonfiction
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1130L

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7.2

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Can We Save the Tiger? by Martin Jenkins, 2011 Nonfiction
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970L

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5.9

AR Interest: LG (K–3)
Chasing Cheetahs: The Race to Save Africa's Fastest Cat by Sy Montgomery, 2014 Nonfiction
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1000L

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6.5

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Child Soldier: When Boys and Girls Are Used in War by Jessica Dee Humphreys, 2015 Nonfiction
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680L

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4.4

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Climbing Everest by Gail Herman, 2015 Nonfiction
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570L

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4.4

AR Interest: LG (K–3)
Counting Lions: Portraits from the Wild by Katie Cotton, 2015 Nonfiction
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4.1

AR Interest: LG (K–3)
Coyote Moon by Maria Gianferrari, 2016 Nonfiction
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810L

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2.4

AR Interest: LG (K–3)
Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night by Joyce Sidman, 2010 Nonfiction
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1020L

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6.1

AR Interest: LG (K–3)
Dinosaur Feathers by Dennis Nolan, 2019 Nonfiction
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Dogs on Duty: Soldiers' Best Friends on the Battlefield and Beyond by Dorothy Hinshaw Patent, 2012 Nonfiction
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1190L

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7.1

AR Interest: LG (K–3)
Emancipation Proclamation: Lincoln and the Dawn of Liberty by Tonya Bolden, 2013 Nonfiction
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1160L

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8.9

AR Interest: MG+ (6–8)
Emma Dilemma: Big Sister Poems by Kristine O'Connell George, 2011 Nonfiction
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610L

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3.3

AR Interest: LG (K–3)
Eruption!: Volcanoes and the Science of Saving Lives by Elizabeth Rusch, 2013 Nonfiction
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1000L

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6.9

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Eye to Eye: How Animals See the World by Steve Jenkins, 2014 Nonfiction
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1040L

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5.7

AR Interest: LG (K–3)
Fabulous Frogs by Martin Jenkins, 2016 Nonfiction
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520L

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3.4

AR Interest: LG (K–3)
Feathers: Not Just for Flying by Melissa Stewart, 2014 Nonfiction
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910L

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5.1

AR Interest: LG (K–3)
Firefly July: A Year of Very Short Poems by Paul B. Janeczko, 2014 Nonfiction
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4.5

AR Interest: LG (K–3)
First Flight Around the World: The Adventures of the American Fliers Who Won the Race by Tim Grove, 2015 Nonfiction
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1100L

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7.7

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Flutter and Hum: Animal Poems / Aleteo y zumbido: Poemas de animales by Julie Paschkis, 2015 Nonfiction
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-60L

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2.2
Freedom Summer: The 1964 Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi by Susan Goldman Rubin, 2014 Nonfiction
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980L

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6.9

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Gorilla Walk by Ted Lewin, 2014 Nonfiction
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1010L

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5.7
Handle with Care: An Unusual Butterfly Journey by Loree Griffin Burns, 2013 Nonfiction
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850L

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4.9

AR Interest: LG (K–3)
Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans by Kadir Nelson, 2011 Nonfiction
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1050L

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6.6

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Her Right Foot by Dave Eggers, 2017 Nonfiction
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800L

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4.5

AR Interest: LG (K–3)
Hey, Water! by Antoinette Portis, 2019 Nonfiction
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410L

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2.0

AR Interest: LG (K–3)
Hippos Are Huge! by Jonathan London, 2015 Nonfiction
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970L

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4.5

AR Interest: LG (K–3)
How to Be an Elephant: Growing Up in the African Wild by Katherine Roy, 2017 Nonfiction
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1310L

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6.9

AR Interest: LG (K–3)
How to Clean a Hippopotamus: A Look at Unusual Animal Partnerships by Robin Page, 2010 Nonfiction
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950L

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5.2
Iceberg, Right Ahead!: The Tragedy of the Titanic by Stephanie Sammartino McPherson, 2012 Nonfiction
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1070L

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8.1

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Impact: Asteroids and the Science of Saving the World by Elizabeth Rusch, 2017 Nonfiction
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1070L

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7.2

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Into the Unknown: How Great Explorers Found Their Way by Land, Sea, and Air by Stewart Ross, 2011 Nonfiction
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1120L

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7.9

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
I Remember: Poems and Pictures of Heritage by Lee Bennett Hopkins, 2019 Nonfiction
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5.1

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Island: A Story of the Galapagos by Jason Chin, 2012 Nonfiction
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900L

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5.8

AR Interest: LG (K–3)
Just Ducks! by Nicola Davies, 2012 Nonfiction
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800L

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4.1

AR Interest: LG (K–3)
Just Right: Searching for the Goldilocks Planet by Curtis Manley, 2019 Nonfiction
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1080L

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5.5

AR Interest: LG (K–3)
Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strangest Parrot by Sy Montgomery, 2010 Nonfiction
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950L

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6.4

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Lemons Are Not Red by Laura Vaccaro Seeger, 2016 Nonfiction
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Liberty Arrives!: How America's Grandest Statue Found Her Home by Robert Byrd, 2019 Nonfiction
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900L

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6.1
Life on Surtsey: Iceland's Upstart Island by Loree Griffin Burns, 2017 Nonfiction
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1090L

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7.2

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Lion of the Sky: Haiku for All Seasons by Laura Purdie Salas, 2019 Nonfiction
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Look Up!: Bird-Watching in Your Own Backyard by Annette LeBlanc Cate, 2013 Nonfiction
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810L
Mad about Monkeys by Owen Davey, 2015 Nonfiction
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1050L
Maps by Aleksandra Mizielinska, 2012 Nonfiction
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Mirror by Jeannie Baker, 2010 Nonfiction
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Moth: An Evolution Story by Isabel Thomas, 2019 Nonfiction
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3.4

AR Interest: LG (K–3)
My Grandma and Me by Mina Javaherbin, 2019 Nonfiction
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4.0

AR Interest: LG (K–3)
My Pen by Christopher Myers, 2015 Nonfiction
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2.9

AR Interest: LG (K–3)
Mysterious Patterns: Finding Fractals in Nature by Sarah C. Campbell, 2014 Nonfiction
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1040L

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5.2

AR Interest: LG (K–3)
Neighborhood Sharks: Hunting with the Great Whites of California's Farallon Islands by Katherine Roy, 2014 Nonfiction
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1330L

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6.6

AR Interest: LG (K–3)
Nic Bishop Lizards by Nic Bishop, 2010 Nonfiction
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880L

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5.2
Older Than Dirt: A Wild But True History of Earth by Don Brown, 2017 Nonfiction
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730L

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4.8

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Sail Away by Langston Hughes, 2015 Nonfiction
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4.3

AR Interest: LG (K–3)
Space, Stars, and the Beginning of Time: What the Hubble Telescope Saw by Elaine Scott, 2011 Nonfiction
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1180L

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8.6

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Terezín: Voices from the Holocaust by Ruth Thomson, 2011 Nonfiction
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980L

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7.0
The Beetle Book by Steve Jenkins, 2012 Nonfiction
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980L

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5.9

AR Interest: LG (K–3)
The Case of the Vanishing Little Brown Bats: A Scientific Mystery by Sandra Markle, 2015 Nonfiction
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1030L

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6.3

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
The Elephant Scientist by Caitlin O'Connell, 2011 Nonfiction
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1260L

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8.4

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
The Great American Dust Bowl by Don Brown, 2013 Nonfiction
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860L

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5.1

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
The Great Migration: Journey to the North by Eloise Greenfield, 2011 Nonfiction
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600L

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3.4

AR Interest: LG (K–3)
The Hidden Alphabet by Laura Vaccaro Seeger, 2010 Nonfiction
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The Hive Detectives: Chronicle of a Honey Bee Catastrophe by Loree Griffin Burns, 2010 Nonfiction
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1120L

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7.5
The Mangrove Tree: Planting Trees to Feed Families by Susan L. Roth, 2011 Nonfiction
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1190L

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6.4
The Mighty Mars Rovers: The Incredible Adventures of Spirit and Opportunity by Elizabeth Rusch, 2012 Nonfiction
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950L

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6.4
The Most Amazing Creature in the Sea by Brenda Z. Guiberson, 2015 Nonfiction
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4.2

AR Interest: LG (K–3)
The Street Beneath My Feet by Charlotte Guillain, 2017 Nonfiction
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The Tragic Tale of the Great Auk by Jan Thornhill, 2016 Nonfiction
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1130L

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6.5

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees by Don Brown, 2018 Nonfiction
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860L

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5.7
Todos Iguales / All Equal: Un Corrido de Lemon Grove/A Ballad of Lemon Grove by Christy Hale, 2019 Nonfiction
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1100L

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6.0
Twelve Days in May: Freedom Ride 1961 by Larry Dane Brimner, 2017 Nonfiction
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1080L

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7.0

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Ubiquitous: Celebrating Nature's Survivors by Joyce Sidman, 2010 Nonfiction
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1240L

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7.9

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Wait, What?: A Comic Book Guide to Relationships, Bodies, and Growing Up by Heather Corinna, 2019 Nonfiction
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We Will Not Be Silent: The White Rose Student Resistance Movement That Defied Adolf Hitler by Russell Freedman, 2016 Nonfiction
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630L

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7.7
Who Has What?: All about Girls' Bodies and Boys' Bodies by Robie H. Harris, 2011 Nonfiction
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Winter Bees & Other Poems of the Cold by Joyce Sidman, 2014 Nonfiction
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6.1

AR Interest: LG (K–3)
Woodpecker Wham! by April Pulley Sayre, 2015 Nonfiction
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320L
Work: An Occupational ABC by Kellen Hatanaka, 2014 Nonfiction
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Zombie Makers: True Stories of Nature's Undead by Rebecca L. Johnson, 2013 Nonfiction
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800L

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5.3

AR Interest: MG (4–8)