Children's Non-Fiction Books
| Building sets of ten / Minta Berry. |
| Introduces the concept of grouping numbers into sets of ten using patterns. | |
| Comparing fractions / Minta Berry. |
| A fraction is a number that describes part of a whole. A fraction is made up of two numbers separated by a line. | |
| Every thing on it : poems and drawings / peoms and drawings by Shel Silverstein. |
| The second original book to be published since Silverstein's passing in 1999, this poetry collection includes more than one hundred and thirty never-before-seen poems and drawings completed by the cherished American artist and selected by his family from his archives. | |
| Garbage trucks / by Amanda Doering Tourville ; illustrated by Zachary Trover. |
| Rumble! Rumble! Roar! These mighty machines are powerhouses of productivity. Find out what, where and how garbage trucks get the job done. | |
| Marijuana / Troon Harrison Adams. |
| Facts and information about marijuana, its use and abuse. | |
| National Geographic Kids weird but true : 300 outrageous facts. |
| 300 wacky, wild, mind-bending facts about everything on Earth and beyond. | |
| National geographic kids weird but true! 2 : 300 outrageous facts. |
| Curiosities and wonders. | |
| Passenger trains / Phillip Ryan. |
| Simple pictures and text introduce the reader to passenger trains and terms associated with them. | |
| Patterning / Minta Berry. |
| A pattern is a set of things that repeat over and over again. Our world is filled with patterns! | |
| Perimeter / Minta Berry. |
| The perimeter is the distance around any figure. You can measure perimeter using objects, estimation, or adding up the lengths of the sides. | |
| Purple / by Patricia M. Stockland ; illustrated by Julia Woolf. |
| There are three primary colors: red, blue and yellow. These colors combine to create other colors. Red and blue together will make purple. | |
| Running to extremes : Ray Zahab's amazing ultramarathon journey / Steve Pitt ; with Ray Zahab. |
| Marathon running. Runners (Sports) -- Canada -- Biography. Zahab, Ray, 1969- | |
| Steroids / Erin Knight. |
| Facts and information about steroids, their use and abuse. | |
| Street pharma / Jessica Wilkins. |
| Facts and information on street pharmaceuticals, their use and abuse. | |
| Tennis / Don Wells. |
| Did you know that tennis is one of the most popular spectator and participation sports in the world? There are fans and comptetitors in more than 100 countries. Learn more in this media enhanced book. | |
| That's incredible! : the world's most unbelievable facts & records / [writer, Curtis Slepian]. |
| An entertaining mix of amazing facts, records, and spectacular photos--all about the most incredible wonders our world has to offer. | |
| Twinkle, twinkle, little star / [illustrations by] Jerry Pinkney. |
| Presents the classic English nursery rhyme alongside illustrations that feature a curious chipmunk marveling at the natural world during the day and setting sail in his imagination at night. | |
| What comes in sets? / Minta Berry. |
| A set is a group of objects that are all alike in some way. Objects can be things, numbers, or shapes. A sock is an object. Two socks make up a set. | |
| Who has what? : all about girls' bodies and boys' bodies / Robie H. Harris ; illustrated by Nadine Bernard Westcott. |
| A book that will help young children feel that whether they have a girl's body or a boy's body, their bodies are perfectly normal and healthy, and totally wonderful! | |
| World heritage : protecting threatened animals / Brendan and Debbie Gallagher. |
| In this book, you can find out about World Heritage sites that protect animals that the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) considers vulnerable, endangered or critically endangered. | |
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