TeachingBooks | Texas Topaz Nonfiction Reading List, 2025

Enigma Girls, The: How Ten Teenagers Broke Ciphers, Kept Secrets, and Helped Win World War II

The Enigma Girls: How Ten Teenagers Broke Ciphers, Kept Secrets, and Helped Win World War II

by Candace Fleming

25+ Resources10 Awards

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Uprooted

by Ruth Chan

25+ Resources12 Awards

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Impossible Escape: A True Story of Survival and Heroism in Nazi Europe

by Steve Sheinkin

25+ Resources6 Awards

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Stealing Little Moon: The Legacy of the American Indian Boarding Schools

by Dan SaSuWeh Jones

25+ Resources10 Awards

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Ernö Rubik and His Magic Cube

by Kerry Aradhya and Kara Kramer

20+ Resources6 Awards

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Sweet Justice: Georgia Gilmore and the Montgomery Bus Boycott

by Mara Rockliff and R. Gregory Christie

20+ Resources6 Awards

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America Redux

by Ariel Aberg-Riger

20+ Resources6 Awards

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Nothing: John Cage and 4'33”

by Nicholas Day and Chris Raschka

20+ Resources3 Awards

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Mushroom Rain

by Laura K. Zimmermann and Jamie Green

15+ Resources

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Fabulous Fannie Farmer, The: Kitchen Scientist and America's Cook

The Fabulous Fannie Farmer: Kitchen Scientist and America's Cook

by Emma Bland Smith and Susan Reagan

15+ Resources5 Awards

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Homebody

by Theo Parish

15+ Resources5 Awards

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And Yet You Shine: The Kohinoor Diamond, Colonization, and Resistance

by Supriya Kelkar

15+ Resources5 Awards

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Wings of an Eagle: The Gold Medal Dreams of Billy Mills

by Billy Mills, Donna Janell Bowman, and S.D. Nelson

15+ Resources5 Awards

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Poetry Comics

by Grant Snider

15+ Resources4 Awards

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My Lost Freedom: A Japanese American World War II Story

by George Takei and Michelle Lee

15+ Resources6 Awards

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Iguanodon's Horn, The: How Artists and Scientists Put a Dinosaur Back Together Again and Again and Again

The Iguanodon's Horn: How Artists and Scientists Put a Dinosaur Back Together Again and Again and Again

by Sean Rubin

15+ Resources6 Awards

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Daughter of the Light-Footed People: The Story of Indigenous Marathon Champion Lorena Ramírez

by Belen Medina and Natalia Rojas Castro

15+ Resources7 Awards

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Girl Who Figured It Out, The: The Inspiring True Story of Wheelchair Athlete Minda Dentler Becoming an Ironman World Champion

The Girl Who Figured It Out: The Inspiring True Story of Wheelchair Athlete Minda Dentler Becoming an Ironman World Champion

by Minda Dentler and Stephanie Dehennin

15+ Resources2 Awards

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83 Days in Mariupol: A War Diary

by Don Brown

15+ Resources5 Awards

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Bone Wars, The: The True Story of an Epic Battle to Find Dinosaur Fossils

The Bone Wars: The True Story of an Epic Battle to Find Dinosaur Fossils

by Jane Kurtz and Alexander Vidal

15+ Resources1 Awards

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Sleepy: Surprising Ways Animals Snooze

by Jennifer Ward and Robin Page

15+ Resources5 Awards

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Spirit Sleuths: How Magicians and Detectives Exposed the Ghost Hoaxes

by Gail Jarrow

15+ Resources4 Awards

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What's Inside a Caterpillar Cocoon?

by Rachel Ignotofsky

15+ Resources4 Awards

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The Bees of Notre-Dame

by Meghan P. Browne and E.B. Goodale

15+ Resources1 Awards

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Small Shoes, Great Strides: How Three Brave Girls Opened Doors to School Equality

by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson and Alex Bostic

15+ Resources2 Awards

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Mountain of Fire: The Eruption and Survivors of Mount St. Helens

by Rebecca E. F. Barone

15+ Resources2 Awards

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Disappearing Act: A True Story

by Jiordan Castle

15+ Resources1 Awards

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Loch Ness Uncovered

by Rebecca Siegel

15+ Resources6 Awards

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José Feeds the World

by David Unger and Marta Álvarez Miguéns

10+ Resources2 Awards

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Yoshi, Sea Turtle Genius

by Lynne Cox and Richard Jones

10+ Resources3 Awards

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Thomas Jefferson's Battle for Science: Bias, Truth, and a Mighty Moose!

by Beth Anderson and Jeremy Holmes

10+ Resources

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Puzzled: A Memoir about Growing Up with OCD

by Pan Cooke

10+ Resources2 Awards

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Swans of Harlem, The: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History

The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History

by Karen Valby

10+ Resources1 Awards

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Absurd Words: A Kids' Fun and Hilarious Vocabulary Builder for Future Word Nerds

by Tara Lazar

10+ Resources1 Awards

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Gifts from Georgia's Garden: How Georgia O'Keeffe Nourished Her Art

by Lisa Robinson and Hadley Hooper

10+ Resources1 Awards

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Making Sense of Dog Senses: How Our Furry Friends Experience the World

by Stephanie Gibeault and Raz Latif

10+ Resources

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Total Garbage

by Rebecca Donnelly and John Hendrix

10+ Resources3 Awards

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Few Beautiful Minutes, A: Experiencing a Solar Eclipse

A Few Beautiful Minutes: Experiencing a Solar Eclipse

by Kate Allen Fox and Khoa Le

10+ Resources1 Awards

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Where Are the Aliens?: The Search for Life Beyond Earth

by Stacy McAnulty and Nicole Miles

10+ Resources1 Awards

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Log Life

by Amy Hevron

10+ Resources2 Awards

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Our Underwater World: A First Dive Into Oceans, Lakes, and Rivers

by Sue Lowell Gallion and Lisk Feng

10+ Resources

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Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things

by Adam Grant

10+ Resources

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Birdgirl: Looking to the Skies in Search of a Better Future

by Mya-Rose Craig

10+ Resources

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I Was: The Stories of Animal Skulls

by Katherine Hocker and Natasha Donovan

10+ Resources2 Awards

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How to Survive History: How to Outrun a Tyrannosaurus, Escape Pompeii, Get Off the Titanic, and Survive the Rest of History's Deadliest Catastrophes

by Cody Cassidy

5+ Resources

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Attacked!: Pearl Harbor and the Day War Came to America

by Marc Favreau

5+ Resources1 Awards

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Odd Couples: A Guide to Unlikely Animal Pairs

by Maria Birmingham and Raz Latif

5+ Resources

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Marked Man: Frank Serpico's Inside Battle Against Police Corruption

by John Florio and Ouisie Shapiro

5+ Resources2 Awards

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Texas Topaz Nonfiction Reading List, 2025

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