Best Books 2011 (Non-Fiction) by School Library Journal

Roots and Blues: A Celebration by Arnold Adoff

 

America is Under Attack: September 11, 2011: The Day the Towers Fell by Don Brown

 

A Nation’s Hope: The Story of Boxing Legend Joe Louis by Matt de la Pena

 

Titanic Sinks!: Experience the Titanic’s Doomed Voyage in This Unique Presentation of Fact and Fiction by Barry Denenberg

 

Energy Island: How One Community Harnessed the Wind and Changed Their World by Allan Drummond

 

Underground: Finding the Light to Freedom by Shane Evans

 

Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart by Candace Fleming

 

Emma Dilemma: Big Sister Poems by Kristine O’Connell George

 

Can We Save the Tiger? By Martin Jenkins

 

Worst of Friends: Thomas Jefferson and John Adams and the True Story of an American Feud by Suzanne Tripp Jurmain

 

Mysterious Bones: The Story of Kennewick Man by Katherine Kirkpatrick

 

The Many Faces of George Washington: Remaking a Presidential Icon by Carla Killough McClafferty

 

Flesh & Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy by Albert Marrin

 

Treasury of Greek Mythology: Classic Stories of Gods, Goddesses, Heroes & Monsters by Donna Jo Napoli

 

Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans by Kadir Nelson

 

Orani: My Father’s Village by Claire A. Nivola

 

Around the World by Matt Phelan

 

Into the Great Unknown: How Explorers Found Their Way by Land, Sea, and Air by Stewart Ross

 

Drawing from Memory by Allen Say

 

Witches!: The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem by Rosalyn Schanzer

 

Swirl by Swirl: Spirals in Nature by Joyce Sidman

 

Every Thing On It by Shel Silverstein

 

Charles Dickens and the Street Children of London by Andrea Warren

 

The House Baba Built: An Artist’s Childhood in China by Ed Young

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