Top Shelf Middle Grade Non-Fiction of 2011

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• (*) = Starred review & sources for starred reviews
• B = Booklist
  BCCB = Bulletin for the Center of Children’s Books
  HB = Horn Book
  LMC = Library Media Connection
  KR = Kirkus Reviews
  SLJ = School Library Media Journal
  PW = Publisher’s Weekly
• All titles are linked to a review source
  

_ *****Bootleg: murder, moonshine, and the lawless years of prohibition 978-1-59643-449-3

*B, BCCB, KR, LMC, & SLJ

~Best Books of the Year 2011

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_ **Can we save the tiger? 978-0-7636-4909-8

*HB & KR

~Best Books of the Year 2011

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_ *The elephant scientist 978-0-547-05344-8

*SLJ

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_ **Every thing on it: poems and drawings 978-0-06-199816-4

*PW & SLJ

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_ ****Flesh & blood so cheap: the Triangle Fire and its legacy 978-0-375-86889-4

*B, LMC, PW, & SLJ

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_ *How they croaked: the awful ends of the awfully famous 978-0-8027-9817-6

*B

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_ *The manatee scientist: saving vulnerable species 978-0-547-15254-7

*KR

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_ **The many faces of George Washington: remaking a presidential icon 978-0-7613-5608-0

*BCCB & SLJ

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_ *Oil spill! Disaster in the Gulf of Mexico 978-0-7613-7485-5

*B

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_ *Saving the ghost of the mountain: an expedition among snow leopards in Mongolia 978-0-618-91645-0

*SLJ

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_ *****Trapped: how the world rescued 33 miners from 2,000 feet below the Chilean desert 978-1-41691-397-9

*B, HB, LMC, PW, & SLJ

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_ *Witches! the absolutely true tale of disaster in Salem 978-1-42630-869-7

*SLJ

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Last Year's "Don't Let This One Get Away"

_ ******The war to end all wars: World War I 978-0-547-02686-2

*B, BCCB, HB, KR, PW, & SLJ

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