Tag: middle school non-fiction

The Complete Story of Sadako Sasaki review

The paper crane is ubiquitous with Hiroshima, Japan and the Atomic bomb.  You don’t have to have visited Hiroshima to be aware of the relationship between the deceivingly complex origami crane, that location and its history. To some extent it’s as associated with the bomb as the dome shaped building that’s still in Hiroshima. However, the cranes have a story behind them and a teenage-girl who was the victim of the detonation. The Complete Story of Sadako Sasaki and the Thousand Paper Cranes is the soft-cover version of the book that tells her story.  

For middle school readers who are learning more about WWII, this is great

The Incredible yet True Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt review

I love to learn about people that I haven’t previously heard of, especially if it involves travel, discovery, science or animals. The Incredible Yet True Adventures of Alexander Von Humboldt, The Greatest Inventor-Naturalist-Scientist-Explorer Who Ever Lived easily has the longest book title of anything we’ve ever read. It also perfectly baits your imagination by asking you to align why you’ve (or at least I) never heard of him and the chutzpah that author, Volker Mehnert had in titling the book that. It turns out that Alexander von Humboldt indeed did have a magical life. In the 1820’s in Germany he was the rock star storyteller who spoke to sold out crowds that included all walks of life as he recounted his stories about travelling to those far-away places.

The Incredible yet True Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt is as great as its title is long. It’s non-fiction, middle school reading they’ll really enjoy.
Alexander von Humboldt, exploring before it was cool
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