However, as booksellers and librarians have watched the information needs of adult readers explode over the past few years, the needs of young readers have followed close behind. Children s reading habits have become much broader.
Nonfiction reflects that.
Though Front Street Books continues to be know for it s fictional picturebooks with memorable characters, a recent release, though fiction, is a well-researched historical chapter book for middle readers, heavy on period details and historical information. Eleanor Hill by Lisa Williams Kline, though fiction, relies on fact to propel the story. The book is about an African American woman living in the Midwest, who created a successful cosmetic company that eventually made her the richest African American in the country at the time. Thomas and his two older sisters went to a little school in the side yard . . . By the time he was five, Thomas could read.