Tag: middle grade nonfiction

October 18, 2025 by Travis Jonker

“It was mass psychosis.” Katie Kennedy Talks About DID YOU HEAR WHAT HAPPENED IN SALEM?

Travis: Back in June at the American Library Association Annual Conference in Philly, I sat down with Katie Kennedy to talk about her excellent middle grade nonfiction book Did You Hear What Happened in Salem? The Witch Trials of 1692. In this episode, Katie talks about what it was like to revisit one of the […]

September 21, 2025 by Colby Sharp

Nicholas Day on Connecting Frankenstein to a Volcano Eruption

COLBY: I am always on the lookout for great middle grade nonfiction. It is a hole in both my classroom library and in my own personal reading. I’m thankful that authors like Nicholas Day are creating books that are filling that hole. In this episode, I chat with Nicholas about his new book A World […]