Get Real!
Real Adventures, Disasters, Mysteries, & Lives

Ages 9-12
These books are located in the children’s non-fiction section, in order by Dewey Decimal Number.
Please ask staff for help if you can’t find a book. 

Shutting Out the Sky: Life in the Tenements of New York, 1884-1920
by Deborah Hopkinson
J 307.764 HOPKI

The Man Who Made Time Travel
by Kathryn Lasky
J 526.62 LASKY

Hidden Worlds: Looking Through a Scientist’s Microscope
by Stephen P. Kramer
J 570.28 KRAME

Safari Beneath the Sea: The Wonder World of the North Pacific Coast
by Diane Swanson
J 574.9795 SWANS

Tarantula Scientist
by Sy Montgomery
J 595.44 MONTG

My Season with Penguins: an Antarctic Journey
by Sophie Webb
J 598.47 WEBB

Rats! The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
by Richard Conniff
J 599.352 CONNI

To the Top of the World: Adventures with
Arctic Wolves
by Jim Brandenburg
J 599.773 BRAND

An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793
by Jim Murphy
J 614.541 MURPH

The Brooklyn Bridge
by Lynn Curlee
J 624.5 CURLE

Wildlife Rescue: the Work of Dr. Kathleen
Ramsay
by Jennifer Owings Dewey
J 636.089 DEWEY

In the Days of the Vaqueros: America’s First True Cowboys
by Russell Freedman
J 636.213 FREED

The Journey That Saved Curious George: The True Wartime Escape of Margret & H.A. Rey
by Louise Borden
J 813.52 BORDE

Fossil Feud: The Rivalry of the First American
Dinosaur Hunters
by Thom Holmes
J 925.6 HOLME

The Emperor’s Silent Army: The Terracotta
Warriors of Ancient China
by Jane O’Connor
J 931 OCONN

Secrets of the Sphinx
by James Cross Giblin
J 932 GIBLI

Remember D-day: the Plan, the Invasion, the
Survivor Stories
by Ronald J. Drez
J 940.5421 DREZ

Left For Dead: A Young Man’s Search for Justice for the USS Indianapolis
by Peter Nelson
J 940.54597 NELSO

Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850
by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
J 941.5081 BARTO

Lives of the Presidents: Fame, Shame, and What the Neighbors Thought
by Kathleen Krull
J 973.099 KRULL

George Washington, Spymaster
by Thomas B. Allen
J 973.3 ALLEN

Secrets of a Civil War Submarine: Solving the
Mysteries of the H.L. Hunley
by Sally M. Walker
J 973.757 WALKE

Blizzard
by Jim Murphy
J 974.71041 MURPH

Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters
by Pat McKissack
J 975 MCKIS

The Great Fire
by Jim Murphy
J 977.311 MURPH

Arctic Memories
by Normee Ekoomiak
J 998 EKO
 

LOCATED IN BIOGRAPHY:
The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights
by Russell Freedman
J ANDERSON FRE

Through My Eyes
by Ruby Bridges
J BRIDGES BRI

The Amazing Life of Benjamin Franklin
by James Cross Giblin
J FRANKLIN GIB

The Longitude Prize
by Joan Dash
J HARRISON DAS

Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps
by Andrea Warren
J MANDELBAUM WAR

Action Jackson
by Jan Greenburg
J POLLOCK GRE

Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado
by Marc Aronson
J RALEGH ARONS

Our Eleanor: A Scrapbook Look at Eleanor
Roosevelt’s Remarkable Life
by Candace Fleming
J ROOSEVELT FLE

Clara Schumann: Piano Virtuoso
by Susanna Reich
J SCHUMANN REI

Sequoyah: The Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing
by James Rumford
J SEQUOYAH RUM

Walt Whitman: Words for America
by Barbara Kerley
J WHITMAN KER

York’s Adventures with Lewis and Clark
by Rhoda Blumberg
J YORK BLU