Boring Books...NOT!!!
A list of fun non-fiction for kids in grades 3-5.

 

D’Aulaires Book of Greek Myths J 292 D’Au

If the World Were a Village – A Book About the World’s            People by David J. Smith

 J 304.6 Smi
The Hungry Coat – A Tale From Turkey by Demi J 398.2 Dem
Behold…The Dragons! By Gail Gibbons J 398.46 Gib
The Moon by Seymour Simon J 523.3 Sim

When Bugs Were Big, Plants Were Strange, and TetrapodsStalked the Earth – A Cartoon Prehistory of Life Before Dinosaurs by Hannah Bonner

  J 565 Bon
The Snake Scientist by Sy Montgomery J 597.96 Mon
The Chimpanzees I Love by Jane Goodall J 599.9 Goo
So You Want To Be an Inventor by Judith St. George J 608 Sai
Chocolate – Riches from the Rainforest by Robert Burleigh J 641.3 Bur

Little Lit – Strange Stories for Strange Kids edited by Art Spiegelman

 J 741.5 Str

The Top of the World – Climbing Mount Everest by Steve Jenkins

 J 796.53 Jen

A Pizza the Size of the Sun – poems by Jack Prelutsky

  J 811 Pre

To Be A Princess- the Fascinating Lives of Real Princesses by Hugh Brewster

  J 920.72 Bre
Blizzard by Jim Murphy                                                            J 974.7 Mur