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'Un'Common Core: Finding Fabulous Nonfiction: Books from Ellen Pozzi's Slides

Resource for presentation at Youth Services Forum, Oct. 1, 2014.

Multicultural Nonfiction (with standards)

Whaling Season by Peter Lourie (Photographer)
ISBN: 0618777091
Publication Date: 2009-11-23
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
ISBN: 1400052181
Publication Date: 2011-03-08
Little White Duck by Andres Vera Martinez (Illustrator); Na Liu
ISBN: 0761381155
Publication Date: 2012-01-10
Red Scarf Girl by Ji-Li Jiang; David Henry Hwang (Foreword by)
ISBN: 0064462080
Publication Date: 2004-07-29
Mosque by David MacAulay
ISBN: 054701547X
Publication Date: 2008-04-28

Graphic Novel Biography/Autobiography

The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
ISBN: 0375714839
Publication Date: 2007-10-30
Bill the Boy Wonder by Marc Tyler Nobleman; Ty Templeton (Illustrator)
ISBN: 1580892892
Publication Date: 2012-07-01
Drawing from Memory by Allen Say (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0545176867
Publication Date: 2011-09-01
To Dance by Siena Cherson Siegel; Mark Siegel (Illustrator)
ISBN: 1416926879
Publication Date: 2006-10-01
Stitches by David Small
ISBN: 0393338967
Publication Date: 2010-09-13
March by John Lewis; Andrew Aydin; Nate Powell (Artist)
ISBN: 1603093001
Publication Date: 2013-08-13

African American History

We Are the Ship by Kadir Nelson (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0786808322
Publication Date: 2008-01-08
The Port Chicago 50 by Steve Sheinkin
ISBN: 1596437960
Publication Date: 2014-01-21
Bad News for Outlaws by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson; R. Gregory Christie (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0822567644
Publication Date: 2009-01-11
Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker by Lynda Jones
ISBN: 1426303777
Publication Date: 2009-01-13
Searching for Sarah Rector by Tonya Bolden
ISBN: 1419708465
Publication Date: 2014-01-07

9/11

The 9/11 Report by Sid Jacobson; Ernie Colón
ISBN: 0809057395
Publication Date: 2006-08-22
In the Shadow of No Towers by Art Spiegelman
ISBN: 0375423079
Publication Date: 2004-09-07

Other

Economix by Michael Goodwin; Dan E. Burr (Illustrator); David Bach; Joel Bakan
ISBN: 0810988399
Publication Date: 2012-09-01

Across the World

Ryan and Jimmy by Herb Shoveller
ISBN: 155453271X
Publication Date: 2008-08-01
The Wall by Peter Sís (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0374347018
Publication Date: 2007-08-21
The Librarian of Basra by Jeanette Winter (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0152054456
Publication Date: 2005-01-01
14 Cows for America by Carmen Agra Deedy; Wilson Kimeli Naiyomah (Afterword by); Thomas González (Illustrator)
ISBN: 1561454907
Publication Date: 2009-08-01
Biblioburro by Jeanette Winter (Illustrator)
ISBN: 1416997784
Publication Date: 2010-06-08

History

Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales by Nathan Hale
ISBN: 1419708562
Publication Date: 2013-08-06
Fax from Sarajevo by Joe Kubert (Illustrator)
ISBN: 1569713464
Publication Date: 1998-10-27
Still I Rise by Roland O. Laird; Taneshia N. Laird (Text by); Elihu Bey (Illustrator); Charles Johnson (Foreword by)
ISBN: 039331751X
Publication Date: 1997-10-01
A. D. by Josh Neufeld
ISBN: 037571488X
Publication Date: 2010-08-24