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Books like North America

If you loved North America by Malcolm Porter, this shelf of 24 books shares the same pull — rooted in People & Places and Juvenile Nonfiction.

People & Places Juvenile Nonfiction

Top related books to North America

Handpicked for thematic and literary overlap — the best shelf companions to North America.

The Warlord’s Puppeteers — Virginia Walton Pilegard

The Warlord’s Puppeteers

Virginia Walton Pilegard

Themes: People & Places • Juvenile Nonfiction

New Key Geography Foundations — David Waugh

New Key Geography Foundations

Themes: People & Places • Juvenile Nonfiction

Ancient Night — David Daniel Álvarez Hernández

David Daniel Álvarez Hernández

Themes: People & Places • Juvenile Nonfiction

Sugar Changed the World A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science — Marc Aronson

Sugar Changed the World A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science

Themes: People & Places • Juvenile Nonfiction

Nigeria — Kristine Spanier

Kristine Spanier

Themes: People & Places • Juvenile Nonfiction

Italy ABCs A Book about the People and Places of Italy — Sharon Katz Cooper

Italy ABCs A Book about the People and Places of Italy

Sharon Katz Cooper

Themes: People & Places • Juvenile Nonfiction

Spain — Elizabeth Kohen

Elizabeth Kohen

Themes: People & Places • Juvenile Nonfiction

The Lost Colony of Roanoke — Jean Fritz

The Lost Colony of Roanoke

Themes: People & Places • Juvenile Nonfiction

Halloween Alphabet — Beverly Barras Vidrine

Halloween Alphabet

Beverly Barras Vidrine

Themes: People & Places • Juvenile Nonfiction

The Nile River in the Sand — Molly Aloian

The Nile River in the Sand

Themes: People & Places • Juvenile Nonfiction

The Puffin History of India for Children, 3000 BC – AD 1947 — Roshen Dalal

The Puffin History of India for Children, 3000 BC – AD 1947

Themes: People & Places • Juvenile Nonfiction

Brown Angels An Album of Pictures and Verse — Walter Dean Myers

Brown Angels An Album of Pictures and Verse

Walter Dean Myers

Themes: People & Places • Juvenile Nonfiction

Guy Fawkes — Sarah Ridley

Themes: People & Places • Juvenile Nonfiction

Bebes del mundo/Global Babies (Spanish Bilingual Edition) — The Global Fund for Children

Bebes del mundo/Global Babies (Spanish Bilingual Edition)

The Global Fund for Children

Themes: People & Places • Juvenile Nonfiction

Great Leaders — DK

Themes: People & Places • Juvenile Nonfiction

You are Enough A Book about Inclusion — Margaret O’Hair

You are Enough A Book about Inclusion — Margaret O’Hair

Margaret O'Hair

Themes: People & Places • Juvenile Nonfiction

Mao’s Last Dancer Young Readers Edition — Li Cunxin

Mao’s Last Dancer Young Readers Edition

Themes: People & Places • Juvenile Nonfiction

They Had a Dream The Struggles of Four of the Most Influential Leaders of the Civil Rights Movement, from Frederick Douglass to Marcus Garvey to Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X — Jules Archer

They Had a Dream The Struggles of Four of the Most Influential Leaders of the Civil Rights Movement, from Frederick Douglass to Marcus Garvey to Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X

Themes: People & Places • Juvenile Nonfiction

Ice Dogs — Terry Lynn Johnson

Terry Lynn Johnson

Themes: People & Places • Juvenile Nonfiction

Petrified Forest National Park — David Petersen

Petrified Forest National Park

Themes: People & Places • Juvenile Nonfiction

Till Victory Is Won Black Soldiers in the Civil War — Zak Mettger

Till Victory Is Won Black Soldiers in the Civil War

Themes: People & Places • Juvenile Nonfiction

Symphony for the City of the Dead Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad — M.T. Anderson

Symphony for the City of the Dead Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad — M.T. Anderson

Themes: People & Places • Juvenile Nonfiction

Giant Seek and Find — []

Giant Seek and Find — []

Freida McFadden

Themes: People & Places • Juvenile Nonfiction

Tiny Travelers Puerto Rico Treasure Quest — Susie Jaramillo

Tiny Travelers Puerto Rico Treasure Quest

Susie Jaramillo

Themes: People & Places • Juvenile Nonfiction

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of People & Places, Juvenile Nonfiction — the same threads that run through North America by Malcolm Porter. Among the authors featured: Virginia Walton Pilegard, David Waugh, David Daniel Álvarez Hernández, Marc Aronson, and others.

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