[ISLMA-Share] Narrative Non-Fiction 8th grade

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Hi! 

Betty Bush teaches Information Resources for Youth by teaching almost exclusively narrative nonfiction. I've included a list of titles from the class that were decidedly middle-high school level:

Upside Down in the Middle of Nowhere, by Julie T. Lamana
Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans, by Don Brown 
Fatal Fever: Tracking Down Typhoid Mary, by Gail Jarrow
Almost Astronauts, by Tanya Lee Stone
Frida and Diego, by Catherine Reef
Charles and Emma, by Deborah Heiligman
Place Hacking: Venturing Off Limits, by Michael Rosen
Yummy, by G. Neri
The Family Romanov, by Candace Fleming
Audacity, by Melanie Crowder
The Watch That Ends the Night, by Allan Wolf
The Borden Murders, by Sarah Miller
Beyond Magenta, by Susan Kuklin
The Boys Who Challenged Hitler, by Phillip Hoose
Most Dangerous, by Steve Sheinkin

-Clair Irwin

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Good morning everyone!

The 8th grade LA teachers came to me yesterday with a request. They are starting a new unit on narrative non-fiction and would like a list of books.
At first I thought of The Port Chicago 50 and Left for Dead, but they mentioned it needs to have strong characters. They mentioned the book A Long Walk to Water, but that is not classified as NF, although it is based on a true story. They also mentioned Night by Elie Wiesel, which is a memoir, and they just finished a unit on memoirs.

So, any ideas? Either NF books with strong narrative characters or fiction based on true stories with main characters?

Thanks in advance!

Sofía Huitrón
LRC Director, Grove Junior High School
847-472-3022 / huitron.sofia at ccsd59.org<mailto:huitron.sofia at ccsd59.org>
LRC website<http://grove.ccsd59.org/about/learning-resource-center/> / www.ccsd59.org<http://www.ccsd59.org>

"We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

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