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Connecting Fiction & Nonfiction: Unique History of the United States

Ages 9-13

Created by:
Katy Almendinger kalmendinger@fun.com (555)-555-5555

7/24/2013

Fiction
Applegate, Kathrine. The One and Only Ivan. Harper Collins, 2012. Ivan, a gorilla famous for drawing, lives at the Exit 8 Big Top Mall and Video Arcade. His pictures have a new purpose when he meets Ruby, a baby elephant. Pair with: Mrs. Harkness and the Panda.

Nonfiction
King, Christine Farris. My Brother Martin. Aladdin, 2003. Martin Luther King Jr. knew he wanted to change the world when he was a young boy. Kings sister tells the story of his childhood. Potter, Alicia, and Melissa Sweet. Mrs. Harkness and the Panda. Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2012. In 1934, a woman named Mrs. Harkness went to China and brought a baby panda home. This biography is charming, colorful, and bursting with artifacts. Treaster, Joseph. Hurricane Force. Kingfisher, 2007. Journalist Joseph B. Treaster experiences Hurricane Katrina right from the heart of the storm. Here Treaster combines his personal narratives with scientific facts about hurricanes. Sandler, Martin W. The Impossible Rescue. Candlewick, 2012. When a winter storm freezes the coast of Alaska abnormally early in 1897, 300 men on wailing ships are stranded until further notice. Sis, Peter. The Wall. Farrar, Straus, Giroux 2007. Peter Siss graphic novel illustrates, with very little text, his experiences growing up in Czechoslovakia and behind the Iron Curtain.

Levine, Kristin. The Lions of Little Rock. Putnam Juvenile, 2012. Despite their differences, twelve-year-old Marlee and Liz struggle to maintain their new friendship while Little Rock is dangerously divided over school integration.
Pair with: My Brother Martin.

Paulsen, Gary. Hatchet. Bradbury Press, 1987. Brian is worried about suriving his parents divorce when the plane hes on crashes in Canadas wilderness. How long will Brian be stranded? Will he survive?
Pair with: The Impossible Rescue.

Rhodes, Jewell Parker. Ninth Ward. Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2010. Mama Ya-Ya, twelve-year-old Laneshas guardian, predicts that a vicious hurricane will hit their home of New Orleans. Can Mama Ya-Yas visions be trusted?
Pair with: Hurricane Force.

Wiles, Deborah. Countdown. Scholastic Press, 2010. In 1962, the United States is threatened by nuclear war and the Cuban Missile Crisis. It is also a turbulent, stressful year for Franny Champman.

Pair with: The Wall.

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