Agree with majanecka- I love E.B. White! So much so, I felt let down reading The Story of Charlotte's Web- E.B. White's eccentric life in Nature and the Birth of an American Classic. Meticulously researched,like someone examining his actions with a magnifying glass, but without the feel of who E.B. White was, and the friendship White's own writing builds with a reader.
Better were these titles:The Tale of Hilltop Farm-The Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter by Susan Wittig Albert. Uses Ms Potter in her rural British locale in gentle mysteries involving villagers and the (talking) animals in Beatrix Potter's books. Hard to pull off, so surprised at how well done it was. Some independent tweens I know would like these.
Chewing the Cud, Dick King-Smith's autobiography. Full of mortality and life happenstance, I found it bittersweet.
Thinking like Your Editor-by Susan Rabiner. Addressed writers of adult nonfiction, but a useful straight shooting editorial perspective especially about bookstore/marketing relations.
The old classic geography pb, Paddle to the Sea by Holling C. Holling.
One of the You Choose series, The Titanic, An Interactive History Adventure, pub by Capstone and written by Bob Temple. Nice job. Seems like these mg's would be fun to write.
Eat that Frog, a book and audio by Brian Tracy I re-read/listen to... classic on time management and procrastination.