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2025 Texas Topaz Nonfiction for Grades 3-5

The Texas Library Association presents the 2025 Texas Topaz Nonfiction Reading List! This reading list provides readers with recommended nonfiction titles to help foster a love of reading and to promote life-long learning. Below are the titles selected for readers in grades 3-5.

Harris County Public Library

20 items

  • And Yet You Shine

    the Kohinoor Diamond, Colonization, and Resistance

    Kelkar, Supriya, 1980-
    BookSomerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press ; 2024. — 954 Kel
  • Dive!

    the Story of Breathing Underwater

    Gall, Chris,
    BookNew York : Roaring Brook Press, [2024] — 797.234 Gal
  • José Feeds the World

    How a Famous Chef Feeds Millions of People in Need Around the World

    Unger, David, 1950-
    BookNaperville, Illinois : Duopress, an imprint of Sourcebooks, [2024] — B Andres
  • Lucy!

    How Lucille Ball Did It All

    Guglielmo, Amy,
    BookNew York : Abrams Books for Young Readers, [2024] — E Gug
  • My Lost Freedom

    a Japanese American World War II Story

    Takei, George, 1937-
    BookNew York : Crown Books for Young Readers, [2024] — 940.531 Tak
  • Graphic NovelSan Francisco : Chronicle Books, [2024] — 811 Sni
  • Sweet Justice

    Georgia Gilmore and the Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Rockliff, Mara
    BookNew York : Random House Studio, [2022] — B Gilmor
  • The Bone Wars

    the True Story of An Epic Battle to Find Dinosaur Fossils

    Kurtz, Jane,
    BookNew York, New York : Beach Lane Books, [2023] — j560.92 Kur
  • The Fabulous Fannie Farmer

    Kitchen Scientist and America's Cook

    Smith, Emma Bland,
    BookNew York : Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers, [2024] — B Farmer
  • The Girl Who Figured It Out

    the Inspiring True Story of Wheelchair Athlete Minda Dentler Becoming An Ironman World Champion

    Dentler, Minda,
    BookNaperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks eXplore, an imprint of Sourcebooks Kids, [2024] — B Dentle
  • The Iguanodon's Horn

    How Artists and Scientists Put a Dinosaur Back Together Again and Again ... and Again

    Rubin, Sean, 1986-
    BookNew York, NY : Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers; 2024. — 567.914 Rub
  • BookNew York : Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers, [2024] — B Jeffer
  • Wings of An Eagle

    the Gold Medal Dreams of Billy Mills

    Mills, Billy, 1938-
    BookNew York, NY : Little, Brown and Company, 2024. — B Mills
  • World of Rot

    Learn All About the Wriggly, Slimy, Super-cool Decomposers We Couldn't Live Without

    Crow-Miller, Britt,
    BookNorth Adams, MA : Storey Publishing, [2024] — 581.714 Cro