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2025 Texas Topaz Nonfiction for Grades K-2

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 K-2.

Harris County Public Library

10 items

  • A Few Beautiful Minutes

    Experiencing a Solar Eclipse

    Fox, Kate Allen
    BookNew York, NY : Little, Brown and Company, 2023. — 523.78 Fox
  • Daughter of the Light-footed People

    the Story of Indigenous Marathon Champion Lorena Ramírez

    Medina, Belen,
    BookNew York, New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2024] — B Ramire
  • I Was

    the Stories of Animal Skulls

    Hocker, Katherine M.,
    BookSomerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2024. — 573.761 Hoc
  • BookNew York, NY : Beach Lane Books, [2024] — 577.3 Hev
  • Marcel's Masterpiece

    How a Toilet Shaped the History of Art

    Mack, Jeff
    BookNew York : Henry Holt and Company, 2022 — E Mac
  • BookAnn Arbor, Michigan : Sleeping Bear Press, [2022] — 579.6 Zim
  • Nothing

    John Cage and 4' 33"

    Day, Nicholas, 1991-
    BookNew York : Holiday House, [2024]. — Y B CAGE
  • Odd Couples

    a Guide to Unlikely Animal Pairs

    Birmingham, Maria,
    BookBerkeley : Owlkids Books, 2023. — j 590 B
  • Sleepy

    Surprising Ways Animals Snooze

    Ward, Jennifer, 1963-
    BookNew York : Beach Lane Books, 2024. — 591.519 War
  • Yoshi, Sea Turtle Genius

    a True Story About An Amazing Swimmer

    Cox, Lynne, 1957-
    BookNew York : Anne Schwartz Books, [2023] — 597.928 Cox