I Can’t Believe It’s Not Fiction…

Although I used to read a ton of fiction when I was a little kid, I kind of took a fiction break for quite a few years once I got into 7^th grade or so.  Rediscovering my love of fiction has been a fairly recent development in my life as a reader, but I still get the urges to read a really great nonfiction book every now and again.  There are nonfiction books that have stories that are just as captivating as fiction and, as they say, sometimes the truth can be stranger than fiction.  Below I’ve listed some newer nonfiction titles that have either just hit the shelves or have come out in the last year.  What do you recommend?

New Non-Fiction Reads for Teens

• Americapedia: Taking the Dumb out of Freedom by Jodi Anderson, Daniel Ehrenhaft, and Andisheh Nouraee
• Can I See Your I.D.?: True Stories of False Identities by Chris Barton
• How They Croaked: The Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous by Georgia Bragg
• Big Questions by Laura Buller, Susan Kennedy and Andrea Mills
• Gaia Warriors: Urgent, The Fight is On! by Nicola Davies

• I See the Promised Land: A Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. by A.R. Flowers
• The War to End All Wars: World War I by Russell Freedman (Adult Nonfiction for YA)
• Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea, and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them by Donovan Hohn (Adult Nonfiction for YA)
• The Dark Game: True Spy Stories by Paul B. Janecsko
• Journey Into the Deep: Discovery New Ocean Creatures by Rebecca L. Johnson

• Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom (With a Few Flat Tires Along the Way) by Sue Macy
• When the World Calls: The Inside Story of the Peace Corps and Its First Fifty Years by Stanley Meisler (Adult Nonfiction for YA)
• The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth: Popularity, Quirk Theory, and Why Outsiders Thrive After High School by Alexandra Robbins
• Listed: Dispatches from America’s Endangered Species Act by Joe Roman (Adult Nonfiction for YA)
• Che Guevara: A Manga Biography by Chie Shimano & Kiyoshi Konno

• The Good, the Bad, and the Barbie: A Doll’s History and Her Impact on Us by Tanya Lee Stone
• Tom Thumb: The Remarkable True Story of a Man in Miniature by George Sullivan
• Saving Cinnamon: The Amazing True Story of a Missing Military Puppy and the Desperate Mission to Bring Her Home by Christine Sullivan
• How to be a Werewolf: The Claws-On Guide for the Modern Lycanthrope by Serena Valentino
• Generation Us: The Challenge of Global Warming by Andrew Weaver (Adult Nonfiction for YA)

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