Contributed By: Amy Billings, Youth Services
The Association for Library Service to Children recommends these “mismatched pairs” of tween friendly fiction and nonfiction book pairs. Grouping fiction and nonfiction titles on the same subject can help readers draw connections, inspire critical thinking, and build vocabulary.
- Stubby the War Dog: The True Story of World War I’s Bravest Dog by Ann Bausum
- Dogs of War by Sheila Keenan
- Welcome to Mars: Making a Home on the Red Planet by Buzz Aldrin and Marianne Dyson
- Life on Mars by Jennifer Brown
- The Mystery of Darwin’s Frog by Marty Crump
- The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly
- Titanic: Voices from the Disaster by Deborah Hopkinson
- I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 by Lauren Tarshis
- A Miracle Mud: Lena Blackburne and the Secret Mud That Changed Baseball by David A. Kelly
- Strike Three, You’re Dead by Josh Berk