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From: sully at sully-writer.com <sully>
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 14:09:30 -0700
This is a subject I have a strong interest in because I am an avid nonfiction reader and I encourage students and teachers to pair fiction and nonfiction titles.
A few years ago, Chris Crowe published the Getting Away with Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case and Mississippi Trial, 1955, a novel that explores the Till case from a fictional viewpoint. Like Bartoletti's Hitler Youth titles, Crowe's books offers unique insight into how an author write about a subject from the perspectives of fiction and nonfiction. Additionally, Marylin Nelson's stunning poetry book, A Wreath for Emmett Till (Houghton Mifflin, 2005) is an outstanding title to read with the Crowe books.
There are many wonderful possibilities for fiction and nonfiction pairings:
Jim Murphy's An American Plague and Laurie Halse Anderson's Fever 1793.
Margaret Peterson Haddix's recent Uprising with Joan Dash's We Shall Not Be Moved: The Women's Factory Strike of 1909(Scholastic, 1996). Mary Jane Auch also wrote a novel on the subject, Ashes of Roses. Lame title but excellent novel.
James Cross Giblin's Good Brother, Bad Brother: The Story of Edwin Booth
& John Wilkes Boothand Anna Myers's Assassin.
Russell Freedman's Children of the Great Depression and Karen Hesse's Out of the Dust or Tracey Porter's Treasures in the Dust.
Ain't Nothing But a Man: My Quest to Find the Real John Henry (National Geographic) would be great to read along with several different versions of the folktale.
There are all sorts of excellent possibilities with subjects like the Civil Rights Movement, Holocaust and Japanese-American Internment.
I'll be self-serving and mention my recently published history of the Manhattan Project, The Ultimate Weapon: The Race to Develop the Atomic Bomb(Holiday House, 2007). Some good companion titles would be Eleanor Coerr's Sadako, Ellen Klages's Green Glass Sea, John Hersey's Hiroshima, and Toshi Maruki's Hiroshima No Pika.
Ed Sullivan
Received on Mon 15 Sep 2008 04:09:30 PM CDT
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 14:09:30 -0700
This is a subject I have a strong interest in because I am an avid nonfiction reader and I encourage students and teachers to pair fiction and nonfiction titles.
A few years ago, Chris Crowe published the Getting Away with Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case and Mississippi Trial, 1955, a novel that explores the Till case from a fictional viewpoint. Like Bartoletti's Hitler Youth titles, Crowe's books offers unique insight into how an author write about a subject from the perspectives of fiction and nonfiction. Additionally, Marylin Nelson's stunning poetry book, A Wreath for Emmett Till (Houghton Mifflin, 2005) is an outstanding title to read with the Crowe books.
There are many wonderful possibilities for fiction and nonfiction pairings:
Jim Murphy's An American Plague and Laurie Halse Anderson's Fever 1793.
Margaret Peterson Haddix's recent Uprising with Joan Dash's We Shall Not Be Moved: The Women's Factory Strike of 1909(Scholastic, 1996). Mary Jane Auch also wrote a novel on the subject, Ashes of Roses. Lame title but excellent novel.
James Cross Giblin's Good Brother, Bad Brother: The Story of Edwin Booth
& John Wilkes Boothand Anna Myers's Assassin.
Russell Freedman's Children of the Great Depression and Karen Hesse's Out of the Dust or Tracey Porter's Treasures in the Dust.
Ain't Nothing But a Man: My Quest to Find the Real John Henry (National Geographic) would be great to read along with several different versions of the folktale.
There are all sorts of excellent possibilities with subjects like the Civil Rights Movement, Holocaust and Japanese-American Internment.
I'll be self-serving and mention my recently published history of the Manhattan Project, The Ultimate Weapon: The Race to Develop the Atomic Bomb(Holiday House, 2007). Some good companion titles would be Eleanor Coerr's Sadako, Ellen Klages's Green Glass Sea, John Hersey's Hiroshima, and Toshi Maruki's Hiroshima No Pika.
Ed Sullivan
Received on Mon 15 Sep 2008 04:09:30 PM CDT
