Nonfiction For Older Readers: Gail Jarrow on Digging Deep into Research

By Stephani Martinell Eaton

Today we kick off a series of posts about writing nonfiction for older readers. In her book Nonfiction Matters (Stenhouse, 1998), Stephanie Harvey explores nonfiction reading and writing in the classroom with an emphasis on the process of discovery. She writes:

“As we studied, we saw the best nonfiction writing emerges from topics the writer knows, cares, and wonders about and wants to pursue.”

This week, you’ll find that care and wonder reflected by the writers we’l...