Today, the Texas Library Association announced the 2019 Texas Topaz Nonfiction Reading List. We are proud to announce that two HarperCollins adult titles made the list!
Barracoon by Zora Neale Hurston The Cooking Gene by Michael W. Twitty
The purpose of the Texas Topaz Reading List is to provide children and adults with recommended nonfiction titles that stimulate reading for pleasure and personal learning. Because this list covers a wide array of topics, it makes a wonderful resource for librarians to use while considering purchasing titles for their own local collection development.
In order to make the list, the book must have a copyright date within the last three years prior to the release of the list and have a favorable review in a scholarly journal or magazine for grades Pre-K through 12, or adults.
Both of these titles made the list with a unanimous vote by the committee!
Additionally, three HarperCollins Children's books also made the list:
Chasing Space (Young Reader’s Edition) by Leland Melvin
*Shaking Things Up by Susan Hood
*The United States v. Jackie Robinson by Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen and illustrated by R. Gregory Christie
(*) denotes a unanimous vote by the committee.
Find out more about the Texas Topaz Nonfiction Reading List and see the rest of the titles selected here.
-Lainey