Kathleen Odean | YA Books

TEEN BOOKS

TEEN BOOKS IN PAIRS:
Fiction/Nonfiction Pairs of YA Books

Here are books paired by subject, one a novel, the other a nonfiction book. Many of them focus on certain times or events in history, but others are paired by other topics. Sometimes I’ve added an extra book that fits in with the theme. At least one book in most of the pairs was published in 2004 or 2003. F=Fiction. NF=Nonfiction.

F: Anderson, Laurie Halse. Fever, 1793. 2000
NF: Murphy, Jim. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793. 2003

F: Balliett, Blue. Chasing Vermeer. 2004
NF: Janeczko, Paul. Top Secret: A Handbook of Codes, Ciphers, and Secret Writing. 2004

F: Chotjewitz, David. Daniel Half-Human and the Good Nazi. 2004
NF: Bartoletti, Susan. Hitler Youth. 2005

F: Crowe, Chris. Mississippi Trial, 1955. 2002
NF: Crowe, Chris. Getting Away with Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case. 2003
Poetry: Nelson, Marilyn. A Wreath for Emmett Till.

F: Cushman, Karen. Rodzina. 2003.
2005 NF: Warren, Andrea. Orphan Train Rider. 1996
NF: Warren, Andrea. We Rode the Orphan Trains. 2001

F: Giff, Patricia Reilly. Nory Ryan’s Song. 2000
NF: Bartoletti, Susan. Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850. 2001

F: Hesse, Karen. Out of the Dust. 1997
NF: Cooper, Michael L. Dust to Eat: Drought and Depression in the 1930s. 2004

F: Konigsberg, E.L. The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place. 2004
Picture Book: Slaymaker, Melissa. Bottle Houses. 2004

F: Lawrence, Iain. B for Buster. 2004
NF: Drez, Ronald. Remember D-Day. 2004

F: Myers, Walter Dean. The Journal of Joshua Loper: A Black Cowboy. 1999.
NF: Stanley, Jerry. Cowboys and Longhorns. 2003

F: Osa, Nancy. Cuba 15. 2003
NF: Hoyt-Goldsmith, Diane. Celebrating a Quinceanera: A Latina's Fifteenth Birthday Celebration. 2002.

F: Pearsall, Shelley. Trouble Don’t Last. 2003
NF: Hansen, Joyce. Freedom Roads: Searching for the Underground Railroad. 2003

F: Shea, Peggy Deitz. Tangled Threads. 2003
NF: Nhuong, Huynh Quang. The Land I Lost. 1982
NF: Warren, Andrea. Escape from Saigon. 2004

F: Stratton, Allan. Chanda's Secrets. 2004
NF: Ellis, Deborah. Our Stories, Our Songs: African Children Talk About AIDS. 2005

F: Taylor, Mildred. The Land. 2001 NF: Greene, Meg. Into the Land of Freedom: African Americans in Reconstruction. 2004
NF: Bolden, Tonya. Cause: Reconstruction America, 1863-1877.

F: Thurlo, Aimee and David. Spirit Line. 2004
NF: Roesell, Monty. Kinaalda: A Navajo Girl Grows Up. 1993

F: Wolf, Allan. New Found Land. 2004
NF: Blumberg, Rhoda. The Incredible Journey of Lewis and Clark. 1987
NF: Blumberg, Rhoda. York’s Adventures with Lewis and Clark. 2004

This is a poetry/nonfiction pair:

Poetry: Myers, Walter Dean. Here in Harlem. 2004
NF: Hill, Laban. Harlem Stomp ! A Cultural History of the Harlem Renaissance. 2004,