New non fiction
My students seem to love non-fiction so I'm always surprised when teachers and librarians say they can't talk their kids into non-fiction. Maybe it's part of the Montessori mindset-the Montessorians tends to be reality and research based. I do love some good fantasy fiction, but the non fiction always flies out the door of my library. Here are some my kids are going to love. The first one is called "Orphan Trains" by Rebecca Langston-George. I loved her last book about Malala Yousfazi called "For the Right to Learn" (so did my students!). So I was excited to read this new one, which comes out in September. It's profiles of kids who rode on the Orphan trains that took orphan kids from the big eastern cities like NY to rural places where people who farmed needed help and could feed the kids. Most of the kids had suffered big traumatic losses, some in child birth but some of them in terrible accidents or from illness. The ones who still had...
