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

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*Sofía Huitrón*
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On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 7:54 AM, Email list for the Illinois School Library
Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> 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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> Subject: [ISLMA-Share] Narrative Non-Fiction 8th grade
>
> 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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