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Diverse Nonfiction for 3rd-5th Grade Students: Multcolib

School Corps staff highlight these books in the Engaging Books for Diverse Readers K-8 workshop. Are you a teacher that lives or works in Multnomah County? Need a custom booklist for an upcoming assignment? Click this link to request one: https://multcolib.org/assignment-alert -Tanya, School Corps Librarian

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31 items

  • Listen

    How Evelyn Glennie, a Deaf Girl, Changed Percussion

    Stocker, Shannon,
    Grades PreK-3
    BookNew York : Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House, LLC, 2022. — j BIO Facts 786.8 GLENNIE 2022
  • Sweet Justice

    Georgia Gilmore and the Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Rockliff, Mara,
    Grades PreK-3. Available in ebook.
    BookNew York : Random House Studio, [2022] — j BIO Facts 323 GILMORE 2022
  • Phenomenal AOC

    the Roots and Rise of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

    Denise, Anika,
    Grades PreK-3
    BookNew York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2022] — j BIO Facts 328.73 OCASIOCOR 2022
  • A Land of Books

    Dreams of Young Mexihcah Word Painters

    Tonatiuh, Duncan,
    Grades PreK-3. Available in ebook and streaming video.
    BookNew York : Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2022. — j Facts 011.31 T663L 2022
  • Curve & Flow

    the Elegant Vision of L.A. Architect Paul R. Williams

    Loney, Andrea J.,
    Grades K-3. Available in ebook.
    BookNew York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2022] — j BIO Facts 720 WILLIAMS 2022
  • Grades K-4. Available in ebook.
    BookNew York : Neal Porter Books, Holiday House, [2022] — j BIO Facts 306.8743 THEODORE 2022
  • Grades K-5
    BookCorvallis, OR : Oregon State University Press ; Vancouver, WA : Confluence, 2023. — j BIO 305.897 MEANUS 2023
  • The Tower of Life

    How Yaffa Eliach Rebuilt Her Town in Stories and Photographs

    Stiefel, Chana, 1968-
    Grades 1-3
    BookNew York : Scholastic Press, 2022. — j BIO Facts 940.5318 ELIACH 2022
  • Grades 2-4. Available in ebook.
    BookNew York : DK Publishing, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2023. — j 612.82 G6525w 2023
  • Tenacious

    Fifteen Adventures Alongside Disabled Athletes

    Cisneros Prevo, Patty,
    Grades 2-5. Available in ebook.
    BookNew York, NY : Lee & Low Books Inc., [2023] — j 796.0456 C579t 2023
  • Door by Door

    How Sarah McBride Became America's First Openly Transgender Senator

    Pincus, Meeg,
    Grades 2-5 Available in ebook.
    BookNew York : Crown Books for Young Readers, [2023] — j BIO Facts 328.73 MCBRIDE 2023
  • A Life of Service

    the Story of Senator Tammy Duckworth

    Soontornvat, Christina,
    Grades 2-5. Available in ebook.
    BookSomerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2022. — j BIO Facts 328.73 DUCKWORTH 2022
  • Lewis Latimer

    a Brilliant Inventor

    Rodriguez, Janel,
    Grades 3-4
    BookNew York, NY : Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc., 2023. — j BIO 621.32 LATIMER 2023
  • Jovita Wore Pants

    the Story of a Mexican Freedom Fighter

    Salazar, Aida,
    Grades 3-5. Available in ebook and downloadable audiobook.
    BookNew York : Scholastic Press, [2023] — j BIO Facts 972.082 JOVITA 2021
  • Grades 3-5. Available in ebook.
    BookNew York : Penguin Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2023. — j 792.809 C5981w 2023
  • Alone

    the Journeys of Three Young Refugees

    Tom, Paul,
    Grades 3-5
    BookToronto ; Berkeley : Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press, 2023. — j 305.23 T6551a 2023
  • Just a Girl

    A True Story of World War Ii

    Levi, Lia
    Grades 3-7. Available in ebook and downloadable audiobook.
    Downloadable AudiobookNew York : HarperCollins, 2022. — Libby Audiobook
  • Indigenous Ingenuity

    a Celebration of Traditional North American Knowledge

    Havrelock, Deidre,
    Grades 3-7. Available in ebook and downloadable audiobook.
    BookNew York : Little, Brown and Company, 2023. — j 500.89 H388I 2023
  • One Life

    Adapted for Young Readers

    Rapinoe, Megan, 1985-
    Grades 3-7. Available in ebook.
    BookNew York : Razorbill, 2021. — j BIO 796.334 RAPINOE 2021