Recs if you like Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad...

Niche nonfiction, aka micro-histories!

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Amazing juvenile (Children's), middle-grade (tweens), and YA (teens) Nonfiction. Suggestions welcome!

There are some other popular series and authors that I’m not including, although they are great, since they are more common. However I’ll list them below:

Author: Gail Gibbons Author: Stacy McAnulty Series: Our Universe by Stacy McAnulty Series: Who HQ: Who was/is? What was/is? Where is? Series: Hazardous Tales Series: Guts & Glory Series: Butt or face? Series: Magic School Bus Series: Who would win? Series: Magic Tree-house Fact Tracker Series: History Smasher Series: Sara Markle's Scientific Discoveries Series: A Kids Book About... ____ Series: Creepy & True

Books that explore the history of the USSR, its origins, its triumphs, the people it oppressed, and its collapse. (Includes fiction books based on real-life Soviet experiences)

Classical music in books, fiction and nonfiction.