Research/Inquiry - mentor texts

Description
Books that exemplify the research/inquiry process or one of its elements or phases -- can be picture books or narrative nonfiction or whatever
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A Secret Gift: How One Man's Kindness—and a Trove of Letters—Revealed the Hidden History of the Great Depression
by Ted Gup
462 members
12 reviews
½ 3.7
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Explanations
kday_working: Recommended by Nadine Bailey
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The Thing about Jellyfish
by Ali Benjamin
1,798 members
72 reviews
4.2
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Eyes Wide Open: Going Behind the Environmental Headlines
by Paul Fleischman
184 members
27 reviews
½ 3.4
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca Skloot
16,953 members
777 reviews
4.2
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by Jared Diamond
27,726 members
407 reviews
4.1
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Eating Animals
by Jonathan Safran Foer
4,050 members
151 reviews
4
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
by Michael Pollan
15,023 members
368 reviews
4.2
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Left for Dead: A Young Man's Search for Justice for the USS Indianapolis
by Pete Nelson
456 members
9 reviews
4.1
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Feed
by M. T. Anderson
5,619 members
444 reviews
3.8
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Explanations
kday_working: Recommended by Jo Krijnsen
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Library Mouse
by Daniel Kirk
2,216 members
59 reviews
4.1
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Explanations
kday_working: Recommended by Fiona Ellis
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Our Librarian Won't Tell Us Anything
by Toni Buzzeo
139 members
7 reviews
4.1
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Explanations
kday_working: Recommended by Fiona Ellis
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The Important Book
by Margaret Wise Brown
2,791 members
137 reviews
3.9
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Explanations
kday_working: Good for note-taking -- to only capture what's important
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Indulgence: Around the World in Search of Chocolate
by Paul Richardson
54 members
3.2
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Invincible Microbe: Tuberculosis and the Never-Ending Search for a Cure
by Jim Murphy
238 members
12 reviews
3.8
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A Fish Caught in Time: The Search for the Coelacanth
by Samantha Weinberg
512 members
16 reviews
3.9
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The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World
by Eric Weiner
2,393 members
110 reviews
3.8
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The Last Unicorn: A Search for One of Earth's Rarest Creatures
by William deBuys
114 members
5 reviews
½ 4.4
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Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners
by Michael Erard
322 members
16 reviews
½ 3.5
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Velma Gratch and the Way Cool Butterfly
by Alan Madison
516 members
33 reviews
4
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Project Mulberry
by Linda Sue Park
1,019 members
37 reviews
3.8
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Pirate Hunters: Treasure, Obsession, and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship
by Robert Kurson
618 members
56 reviews
3.9
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Last Chance to See: In the Footsteps of Douglas Adams
by Mark Carwardine
266 members
3 reviews
½ 4.3
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Confessions of an Eco-Sinner
by Fred Pearce
196 members
9 reviews
3.8
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
by Mary Roach
12,339 members
476 reviews
4.1
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Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
by Mary Roach
4,479 members
156 reviews
½ 3.5
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Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
by Mary Roach
2,945 members
186 reviews
4
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
by Anne Fadiman
5,317 members
133 reviews
4.2
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The Skull in the Rock
by Marc Aronson
125 members
14 reviews
3.9
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Dory Story
by Jerry Pallotta
241 members
8 reviews
½ 4.3
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Dear Greenpeace
by Simon James
184 members
2 reviews
3.9
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From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
by E. L. Konigsburg
19,592 members
301 reviews
4.2
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The Last Giants
by François Place
109 members
3 reviews
4.1
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Chasing Vermeer
by Blue Balliett
5,967 members
163 reviews
½ 3.6
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The Nature of the Beast
by Jan Carr
17 members
1 review
3
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The Really Big Food Project
by Sally Rippin
1 member
1 review
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Abina and the Important Men: A Graphic History
by Trevor R. Getz
189 members
4 reviews
3.8
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Side by Side: Parallel Histories of Israel-Palestine
by Sami Adwan
97 members
½ 3.7
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Modern Romance: An Investigation
by Aziz Ansari
2,409 members
133 reviews
½ 3.7
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