Historical nonfiction for middle school

After receiving her BA in English from the University of Missouri, Chelsea Hensley realized she had no idea what she was doing with her life. So she decided to call herself a writer and is just rolling with it.

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She's read Pride and Prejudice , and watched the Keira Knightley adaptation, so many times that she often gets them confused. In addition to reading and writing, she enjoys taking selfies, watching Netflix, and everything Beyonce does. View All posts by Chelsea Hensley. The ones here are some of the best nonfiction books for middle school kids and cover a range of topics from history to biography to science, and are sure to introduce your young reader to new ideas, new people, and new places.

Find even more nonfiction books for middle school readers here. Sadako Sasaki was 12 years old when she developed leukemia, the result of an atom bomb dropped on her home city of Hiroshima, Japan during World War II. While in the hospital, Sadako learned to fold paper cranes, believing they might grant a wish.

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After her death, her classmates built a memorial, to remember Sadako and all the other children killed during the war. This is an inspiring story of a young girl Aisholpan was 13 at the time of the competition challenging tradition. This book is part history, part activity book, part choose-your-path adventure. Readers choose a path pharaoh, pyramid worker, or archaeologist and all must find a way to escape the tombs by doodling, drawing, and writing inside the book, putting themselves into the history.

Wearing secondhand clothes and short on school supplies, it was only made harder by having everyone know exactly how poor he and his brother were every day at lunch. The newest book in the Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls series focuses exclusively on immigrant women.