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A broad historical account connects Cherokee culture and community life with the effects of European arrival, forced removal and later endurance.

This is a hands-on guide: readers follow construction and throwing techniques, troubleshoot flight, and can progress from basic returns to more elaborate tricks. Historical background and explanations of boomerang flight broaden it beyond a craft manual.

A historical investigation centred on one priest’s mummy, connecting physical clues and expert research to questions about his identity and daily life.

Sean works alongside his father on the Transcontinental Railroad in 1867. The story is framed as his journal, with both hardships and rewards part of his experience.

Expect an overview that combines information about symptoms and health effects with material on getting help, coping and wellbeing, rather than a story centred on a character.

This brings together cooking and cultural learning: recipes sit alongside short stories and facts about food traditions among immigrant communities in the United States.

This biography centres on the brothers’ lives and their work collecting and publishing German fairy tales and legends, placing that work in its social, political and historical setting.

This is an account of a tense colonial-era clash, not just a retelling of a familiar label: it asks whether the event was truly a massacre and examines its causes, effects and disputed details.

This is a hands-on sewing guide, not a story: it brings together 37 machine-sewing projects and activities, including making gifts and other items.

This is a broad introduction to youth justice in the United States, combining an overview of the system with young offenders’ profiles and writing. Its scope extends from detention and prison to alternatives and life after release.

Expect a mix of making and cultural introduction: projects include paper hearts, a Dala horse stamp, a Lapland headband and a Viking sailing ship, alongside material about art in Scandinavian culture.

The book offers a broad historical and cultural overview of Mexico, moving from early civilisations and Spanish rule to information about life and people in Mexico today.

A compact introduction to spiders combines brief text with photographs; occasional information bubbles add related details.

Expect an introduction to dishes featuring spiders and other unusual ingredients, set in a worldwide food context and presented through photographs, a map and fact boxes.

This workbook offers practice in phonics and word study, alongside activities intended to reinforce vocabulary and reading comprehension. Its listed areas range from syllables and sound patterns to figures of speech and dictionary use.

Expect worked explanations alongside substantial practice across number, measurement, algebra, geometry and data. Everyday applications include calculating interest; the emphasis is on building and rehearsing mathematical skills.

The book looks at historical and current sexism affecting women of colour in the United States, with attention to how race shapes those experiences.

The biography traces Ginsburg’s path into law and public service, including barriers connected to gender, Jewish identity and working motherhood.

The book centres on Parks’s refusal to surrender her seat and the civil-rights events that followed. It frames her action as courageous and as a moment shaped by the strength of people who came before her.

It also covers local and global action and pressure on resources from population growth and unsustainable development.

Readers can try to identify each body part from poetic clues, then use sidebars and other features to explore anatomy. The collection also touches on poetic form and Shakespearean works.

The book connects present-day policing with historical laws and institutions, and also looks at attempts to improve police-community relationships.

Expect hands-on maths rather than a narrative: puzzles practise calculation, estimation, tables and charts, and putting answer processes into words.

The book introduces integers and variables, then explains solving equations with the four basic operations. Examples accompany its problem-solving techniques.

A broad introduction to the Arctic and Antarctica, covering polar landscapes, changing light, plants, animals, people and research. Conservation is a stated focus, alongside hands-on projects such as making a snowflake or penguin mask.

Each spread introduces a mathematical concept and connects it with everyday occurrences, pairing explanations with examples of the concept at work in the real world.

A picture-book life story of an immigrant artist: Wong’s journey from China to America and his development as a painter lead to his work creating Bambi’s backgrounds.

This is an informational look at undersea science, from how researchers manage daily life in ocean laboratories to what their work may reveal about marine environments.

Expect an illustrated introduction to plant adaptations, including insect lures and mimicry. The examples are framed playfully as plants’ “sneaky” or “ninja” strategies.

Roosevelt’s biography connects his childhood admiration for Teddy Roosevelt with polio, rehabilitation, political ambition and his response to the Great Depression through job-creating programmes.

The book surveys major Native American languages across regions and considers how some words became part of English. It also introduces the diversity of languages and dialects among tribes and smaller groups.

Expect a mix of country background and one teenager’s perspective, rather than only a personal memoir. The teen’s reflections also look towards China’s future.

This is a hands-on introduction to family-history research: readers fill in details about relatives, organise findings into charts and records, and explore family stories and customs.

Explore how mosquitoes feed and reproduce, diseases they can transmit, human control methods, and their role as food for other animals. Photographs, diagrams and activities add visual and practical ways into the subject.

A broad introduction to Mexico brings together history, culture, people and wildlife, alongside varied landscapes and city life. The listed chapters range from Day of the Dead and religion to leadership, creativity and everyday life.

This illustrated biography links Mary Anderson’s life with her contribution to automotive technology. Photographs, question-led sidebars, a glossary and further resources provide different ways to engage with the subject.

Meet Curiosity as it explores Mars, using scientific instruments and cameras to gather data and make detailed images, including self-portraits.

This nonfiction book explores mammoths as ancient relatives of elephants, their frozen Ice Age habitat and their disappearance. It also presents bones as clues to the past and includes intriguing beliefs about mammoths.

A historical account of an expedition driven by the search for a trade route, tracing its navigation, contests over Pacific islands and journey beyond Magellan’s death.

A music-themed alphabet book moves across styles, instruments and musicians. Its playful text is paired with illustrations, and endnotes provide a further route into musical topics.

A search-and-discover book: readers look for camouflaged insects in detailed habitats, then use insect windows to learn more about them.

This illustrated true story follows librarian Alia Muhammad Baker as she tries to save her library’s books when war threatens Basra. It also presents the library as a place where the community gathered.

The comic follows an emergency landing in the Azores and also includes childhood memories of Piché’s dream of flying. Its focus is a real aviation emergency, rather than a general introduction to flying.

The biography connects Cox’s acting career with her work as an activist, giving attention to her identity and public impact as well as her personal development.

This is a music biography centred on how online video-sharing helped Bieber reach listeners and led to a meeting with Usher. Touring, fans and charity work also feature in its account of his public career.

A straightforward introduction to jets, from their speed and shape to pilots, passengers and their role in transport.

Expect energetic science learning through comic dilemmas, illustrations, experiments and short factual explanations. The book offers hands-on routes into physics, including light, electromagnets, compasses, telephones and periscopes.

This is an activity-led nonfiction book: readers can learn and practise tricks, then consider how presentation, preparation and originality affect a performance. It suits shared experimentation as much as quiet reading.

A lively making-focused non-fiction book combining ten home invention projects with stories and tips about Colin Furze’s larger creations. Its appeal is likely strongest for readers who enjoy building, experimenting and humorous contraptions.