The Challenge: Read 20 engaging, inspiring, award-winning, best-selling, timely, narrative non-fiction books
over 4 years (outside of class) to get MORE out of high school and MORE out of life.
Animal Activism
Coming of Age at the End of Nature by Julie Dunlap (Editor); Susan A. Cohen (Editor)
Call Number: 304.2 Com
ISBN: 9781595347800
Publication Date: 2016-10-11
Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat by Hal Herzog
Call Number: 304.2 Her
ISBN: 0061730866
Publication Date: 2010-09-07
The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
Call Number: 304.2 Wei
ISBN: 9780312347291
Publication Date: 2007-07-10
Dancing with Bees by Brigit Strawbridge Howard
Call Number: 595.79 Str
ISBN: 9781603588485
Publication Date: 2019-09-13
World of Wonders by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Call Number: 590 NEZ
ISBN: 9781571311931
Reef Life by Callum Roberts
Call Number: 577.7 Rob
ISBN: 9781643133294
Publication Date: 2020-03-03
Owls of the Eastern Ice by Jonathan C. Slaght
Call Number: 598.9 Sla
ISBN: 9780374228484
Publication Date: 2020-08-04
Grayson by Lynne Cox; Sean Yule (Other Primary Creator)
Call Number: 797.2 Cox
ISBN: 9780156034678
Publication Date: 2008-02-04
The Bee Book by DK; Emma Tennant (Contribution by); Fergus Chadwick (Contribution by)
Call Number: 595.79 CHA
ISBN: 9781465443830
Publication Date: 2016-03-01
The Lady and the Octopus by Danna Staaf
Call Number: B Villepreux-Power
ISBN: 9781728415772
Publication Date: 2022-10-04
Ugly-Cute: What Misunderstood Animals Can Teach Us about Life by Jennifer McCartney
Call Number: 590.22 MCC
ISBN: 9780008527051
Publication Date: 2022-08-30
Nature's Best Hope by Douglas W. Tallamy
Call Number: 635.9 Tal
ISBN: 9781604699005
Publication Date: 2020-02-04
Birdgirl by Mya-Rose Craig
Call Number: B Cra
ISBN: 9781250807670
Publication Date: 2023-03-28
Of Time and Turtles by Sy Montgomery; Matt Patterson (Illustrator)
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? by Frans De Waal
Call Number: 591.5 Waa
ISBN: 9780393246186
Publication Date: 2016-04-25
The Inner Life of Animals by Peter Wohlleben; Jeffrey Masson (Foreword by); Jane Billinghurst (Translator)
Call Number: 591.5 Wol
ISBN: 9781771643016
Publication Date: 2017-11-07
How to Clone a Mammoth by Beth Shapiro
Call Number: 591.68 Sha
ISBN: 9780691157054
Publication Date: 2015-04-05
Finding Gobi by Dion Leonard
Call Number: 636.7 LEO
ISBN: 9780718098575
Publication Date: 2017-06-13
On the Backs of Tortoises by Elizabeth Hennessy
Call Number: 508.866 Hen
ISBN: 9780300232745
Publication Date: 2019-10-29
Decoding Your Cat by American College American College of Veterinary Behaviorists; Meghan E. Herron (Editor); Debra F. Horwitz (Editor); Carlo Siracusa (Editor); Steve Dale (Contribution by)
Call Number: 636.8 Ame
ISBN: 9781328489906
Publication Date: 2020-07-21
Decoding Your Dog by American College of Veterinary Behaviorists Staff; Debra F. Horwitz (Editor); John Ciribassi (Contribution by, Editor); Steve Dale (Contribution by)
Call Number: 636.7 Dec
ISBN: 9780544334601
Publication Date: 2015-01-06
Animal, Vegetable, Junk by Mark Bittman
Call Number: 394.1 Bit
ISBN: 9781328974624
Publication Date: 2021-02-02
Fathoms by Rebecca Giggs
Call Number: 599.5 gig
ISBN: 9781982120696
Publication Date: 2020-07-28
How to Speak Whale by Tom Mustill
Call Number: 591.59 MUS
ISBN: 9781538739112
Publication Date: 2022-09-06
The Adventures of Alexander Von Humboldt by Andrea Wulf; Lillian Melcher (Illustrator)
Call Number: 508.092 Wul
ISBN: 9781524747374
Publication Date: 2019-04-02
Nursery Earth by Danna Staaf (Contribution by); Richard Strathmann (Contribution by)
Call Number: 591.3 Sta
ISBN: 9781615199327
Publication Date: 2023-06-06
Omfg, Bees! by Matt Kracht
Call Number: 595.79 Kra
ISBN: 9781797219905
Publication Date: 2023-03-28
How to Survive History by Cody Cassidy
Call Number: 904 CAS
ISBN: 9780143136408
Publication Date: 2023-06-13
The Hidden Language of Cats by Sarah Brown
Call Number: 636.8 BRO
ISBN: 9780593186411
Publication Date: 2023-10-17
Inner Lives
The Secret Life of Flies by Erica McAlister
Call Number: 595.77 McA
ISBN: 9781770858091
Publication Date: 2017-08-15
What a Fish Knows by Jonathan Balcombe
Call Number: 597.15 Bal
ISBN: 9780374288211
Publication Date: 2016-06-07
Rats by Robert Sullivan
Call Number: 599.35 Sul
ISBN: 9781582344775
Publication Date: 2005-04-11
Inside of a Dog by Alexandra Horowitz; Sarah L. Thomson (Adapted by); Sean Vidal Edgerton (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781481450935
Publication Date: 2016-03-22
The Lion in the Living Room by Abigail Tucker
Call Number: 636.8 Tuc
ISBN: 9781476738239
Publication Date: 2016-10-18
Our Dogs, Ourselves by Alexandra Horowitz
Call Number: 636.7 Hor
ISBN: 9781501175008
Publication Date: 2019-09-03
The Genius of Dogs by Vanessa Woods; Brian Hare
Call Number: 636.7 Har
ISBN: 9780142180464
Publication Date: 2013-10-29
Our Wild Calling by Richard Louv
Call Number: 615.8 Lou
ISBN: 9781616205607
Publication Date: 2019-11-05
Ice Walker by James Raffan
Call Number: 599.786 Raf
ISBN: 9781501155369
Publication Date: 2020-10-13
Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald
Call Number: 598 MaC
ISBN: 9780802128812
Publication Date: 2020-08-25
The Wasp That Brainwashed the Caterpillar by Matt Simon
Call Number: 578.4 Sim
ISBN: 9780143128687
Publication Date: 2016-10-25
On Animals by Susan Orlean
Call Number: 590 Orl
ISBN: 9781982181536
Publication Date: 2021-10-12
The Genius of Birds by Jennifer Ackerman
Call Number: 598 ACK
ISBN: 9780399563126
Publication Date: 2017-04-11
The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery
Call Number: 594 Mon
ISBN: 9781451697711
Publication Date: 2015-05-12
Rin Tin Tin by Susan Orlean
Call Number: 636.737 Orl
ISBN: 9781439190142
Publication Date: 2012-10-09
Animal Wise by Virginia Morell
Call Number: 591.6 Mor
ISBN: 9780307461452
Publication Date: 2014-03-25
An Immense World by Ed Yong
Call Number: 591.5 Yon
ISBN: 9780593133231
Publication Date: 2022-06-21
What an Owl Knows by Jennifer Ackerman
Call Number: 598.7 Ack
ISBN: 9780593298886
Publication Date: 2023-06-13
Animal Stories
Bonobo Handshake by Vanessa Woods
Call Number: 599.884 Woo
ISBN: 1592405460
Publication Date: 2010-05-27
Marley and Me by John Grogan
Call Number: 636.752 Gro
ISBN: 0060817089
Publication Date: 2005-10-18
Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand
Call Number: 798.4 Hil
ISBN: 0449005615
Publication Date: 2002-03-26
No Beast So Fierce by Dane Huckelbridge
Call Number: 799.2 Huc
ISBN: 9780062678843
Publication Date: 2019-02-05
The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman
Call Number: 940.53
ISBN: 9780393061727
Publication Date: 2007-09-17
The Accidental Veterinarian by Philipp Schott
Call Number: 636.089 Sch
ISBN: 9781770414808
Publication Date: 2019-04-23
The Ravenmaster by Christopher Skaife
Call Number: B Skaife
ISBN: 9780374113346
Publication Date: 2018-10-02
The Falcon Thief by Joshua Hammer
Call Number: 364.16 HAM
ISBN: 9781501191886
Publication Date: 2020-02-11
Travels with Charley in Search of America by John Steinbeck; Jay Parini (Introduction by)
Call Number: 917.3 STE
ISBN: 9780140187410
Publication Date: 1997-04-01
The Perfect Horse by Elizabeth Letts
Call Number: 940.54 Let
ISBN: 9780345544827
Publication Date: 2017-05-23
Craig and Fred by Craig Grossi
Call Number: 636.7 Gro
ISBN: 9780062693396
Publication Date: 2018-11-27
Dewey the Library Cat: a True Story by Vicki Myron; Bret Witter
Call Number: 636.8 Myr
ISBN: 9780316068703
Publication Date: 2011-04-12
Nala's World by Dean Nicholson; Garry Jenkins (As told to)
Call Number: 636.8 Nic
ISBN: 9781538718780
Publication Date: 2020-09-29
Crossing the Line by Kareem Rosser
Call Number: B ROSSER
ISBN: 9781250270863
Publication Date: 2021-02-09
Saving Jemima by Julie Zickefoose
Call Number: 598.8 Zic
ISBN: 9781328518958
Publication Date: 2019-09-10
Fuzz by Mary Roach
Call Number: 591.5 ROA
ISBN: 9781324001935
Publication Date: 2021-09-14
World of Wonders by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Call Number: 590 NEZ
ISBN: 9781571311931
Where the Deer and the Antelope Play by Nick Offerman