Mensa for Kids Excellence in Reading Award Program (Nonfiction)

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1
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
by Anne Frank
13,530 members
245 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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2
Castle
by David Macaulay
3,788 members
49 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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3
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca Skloot
16,893 members
776 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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4
Pyramid
by David Macaulay
2,899 members
11 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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5
March: Book One
by John Lewis
3,754 members
169 reviews
½ 4.5
2 Members
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6
March: Book Two
by John Lewis
2,084 members
87 reviews
½ 4.6
2 Members
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7
March: Book Three
by John Lewis
1,886 members
100 reviews
½ 4.6
2 Members
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8
Walt Whitman: Words for America
by Barbara Kerley
397 members
18 reviews
½ 4.4
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
9
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
by Jon Krakauer
15,685 members
342 reviews
4.2
Member
ahef1963
10
William Shakespeare & the Globe
by Aliki
1,060 members
13 reviews
4.2
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
11
Wilma Unlimited: How Wilma Rudolph Became the World's Fastest Woman
by Kathleen Krull
1,996 members
48 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
cej1027
12
Balloons Over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy's Parade
by Melissa Sweet
1,635 members
227 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
cej1027
13
Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom
by Carole Boston Weatherford
1,449 members
118 reviews
½ 4.5
Member
cej1027
14
Frida
by Jonah Winter
1,001 members
32 reviews
4.1
Member
cej1027
15
Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U. S. Marshal
by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
736 members
56 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
cej1027
17
Night Flight: Amelia Earhart Crosses the Atlantic
by Robert Burleigh
198 members
26 reviews
4
Member
cej1027
18
Founding Mothers: Remembering the Ladies {Children's Edition}
by Cokie Roberts
193 members
11 reviews
4.1
Member
cej1027
19
How the Sphinx Got to the Museum
by Jessie Hartland
117 members
6 reviews
3.9
Member
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20
Lincoln: A Photobiography
by Russell Freedman
2,970 members
59 reviews
4.1
21
The Man Who Walked Between the Towers
by Mordicai Gerstein
2,834 members
273 reviews
½ 4.3
22
When Marian Sang: The True Recital of Marian Anderson
by Pam Muñoz Ryan
1,871 members
105 reviews
½ 4.4
23
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
by Phillip Hoose
1,404 members
217 reviews
½ 4.5
24
Teammates
by Peter Golenbock
1,265 members
67 reviews
½ 4.3
25
Leonardo da Vinci (Time-Traveling Twins)
by Diane Stanley
1,195 members
30 reviews
3.8
26
14 Cows for America
by Carmen Agra Deedy
1,153 members
95 reviews
½ 4.5
27
We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball
by Kadir Nelson
996 members
88 reviews
½ 4.5
28
Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery
by Russell Freedman
893 members
13 reviews
4.1
29
Carver: A Life in Poems
by Marilyn Nelson
706 members
20 reviews
4
30
Electric Ben: The Amazing Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
by Robert Byrd
697 members
30 reviews
4.1
31
Candy Bomber: The Story of the Berlin Airlift's "Chocolate Pilot"
by Michael O. Tunnell
662 members
170 reviews
4.2
32
Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart
by Candace Fleming
609 members
55 reviews
4
34
Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science
by Marc Aronson
505 members
45 reviews
4
36
Flesh and Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy
by Albert Marrin
353 members
27 reviews
4
37
Bloody Times
by James L. Swanson
327 members
4 reviews
½ 3.7
38
God Grew Tired of Us: A Memoir
by John Bul Dau
264 members
5 reviews
4.1
39
The Duel: The Parallel Lives of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr
by Judith St. George
252 members
4 reviews
3.8
40
The Many Rides Of Paul Revere
by James Cross Giblin
248 members
5 reviews
½ 4.3
41
Lafayette and the American Revolution
by Russell Freedman
245 members
10 reviews
4.2
43
In Defense of Liberty: The Story of America's Bill of Rights
by Russell Freedman
233 members
5 reviews
4.1
44
Vincent Van Gogh: Portrait of an Artist
by Jan Greenberg
212 members
7 reviews
3.8
45
Bodies from the Ice: Melting Glaciers and the Recovery of the Past
by James M. Deem
207 members
24 reviews
4.1
46
The Poppy Lady: Moina Belle Michael and Her Tribute to Veterans
by Barbara E. Walsh
202 members
5 reviews
4.2
47
Brooklyn Bridge
by Lynn Curlee
168 members
11 reviews
3.9
48
With Courage and Cloth: Winning the Fight for a Woman's Right to Vote
by Ann Bausum
162 members
4 reviews
½ 4.3
49
From the Good Mountain: How Gutenberg Changed the World
by James Rumford
128 members
9 reviews
4.1
50
Jane Austen: A Life Revealed
by Catherine Reef
115 members
18 reviews
½ 3.5
51
The Great Molasses Flood: Boston, 1919
by Deborah Kops
114 members
6 reviews
½ 3.5
53
1968
by Michael Kaufman
77 members
1 review
4
54
Wideness and Wonder: The Life and Art of Georgia O'Keeffe
by Susan Goldman Rubin
60 members
3 reviews
½ 3.4