Wonderful Bulletin Board

My student teacher, Lizzie Burchell, created another bulletin board for our high school. This is a board that we can leave up for a while.

Fall Bulletin Board

Lizzie Burchell my student teacher put together this bulletin for our middle school.

Nonfiction that reads like fiction for high school students

Thanks to the Library Media Specialist all over the state of Wisconsin for the creation of this list.

• A Child Called "It" by Dave Pelzer
•  A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
•  Amazon extreme: three ordinary guys, one rubber raft, and the most dangerous river on earth by Angus
•  Ambulance girl: how I saved myself by becoming an EMT by Stern
•  American Shaolin: flying kicks, Buddhist monks, and the legend of iron crotch : an odyssey in the new China [book] Polly, Matthew 
•  Ana's story: a journey of hope [book] Bush, Jenna.
•  Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
• An angel from hell: real life on the front lines [book] Conklin, Ryan A.,
•  A Walk in the Woods by Bryson
• Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Ralston
•  Beyond Courage by Rappaport
• Black like me [book] Griffin, John Howard
• The blind side: evolution of a game [book] Lew is, Michael 
•  Bomb by Sheinkin
• Bushnell's submarine: the best kept secret of the American Revolution [book] Lefkow itz, Arthur S. 
• Born to run: the story of Brittany Young [book] Rudow, Barbara     
• Clemente: The Passion and Pride of Baseball's Last Hero by Mariness
•  Coop by Perry 
• Caught by the sea: my life on boats [book] Paulsen, Gary.
• Fire on the Mountain-The true story of the South Canyon fire by Maclean
•  Flags of Our Fathers by Bradley
•  Friday Nigh Lights by Bissinger
•  Ghost of War: The True Story of a 19-Year-Old GI by Ryan Smithson
•  Hitler Youth by Bartoletti
•  Into the Wild by Krakauer
•  Into Thin Air by Krakauer
•  It's Not About the Bike by Lance Armstrong
•  John Lennon All I Want is the Truth by Partridge
•  Monster Fire at Minong: the five mile tower fire of 1977 by Matthias
•  Mountains beyond Mountains by Kidder
•  North of Highway Eight by Woll
•  Population 485 by Perry
•  Quiet Strength by Dungy and Whitaker 
• Rock' N' Roll Soldier: A Memoir by Dean Ellis Kohler
•  Rome 1960 by Mariness
• Seabiscuit by Hillenbrand
•  Swimming to Antarctica: tales of a long-distance swimmer [book] Cox, Lynne.
• Tasting the sky: a Palestinian childhood [book] Barakat, Ibtisam.
•  Temple Grandin by Montgomery
•  The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: creating currents of electricity and hope by Kamkwamba
•  The Day the World came to town by DeFede
•  The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Eric Larsson
• The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
•  The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Skloot
•  The Last Breath: the limits of Adventure by Stark
•  They Marched into Daylight by Mariness
•  Truck by Perry
•  Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, A Young Man and Life's Greatest Lesson by Mitch Albom
•  Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain. [book] De Rossi, Portia.
•  Unthinkable: the true story about the first double amputee to complete the world-famous Hawaiian Ironman triathlon[book] Rigsby, Scott.
•  The violinist's thumb: and other lost tales of love, w ar, and genius, as w ritten by our genetic code [book] Kean, Sam. 
• Three cups of tea: one man's mission to fight terrorism and build nations--one school at a time [book] Mortenson, Greg. 
• Three little words: a memoir [book] Rhodes-Courter, Ashley
•  Visiting Tom by Perry
• We Beat the Street by Sampson Davis (860 Lexile) 
•  When Pride Still Mattered by Mariness
•  Young Men and Fire by Maclean
• Zlata's Diary by Zlata Filipovic
•  Zoobiquity: w hat animals can teach us about health and the science of healing [book] Natterson-Horowitz, Barbara.
•  The zookeeper's wife [book] Ackerman, Diane.
•  Come back to Afghanistan: a California teenager's story [book] Akbar, Said Hyder.
• Cork boat [book] Pollack, John.
• Dreams from My Father. [book] Obama, Barack.  
•  Eat, pray, love: one woman's search for everything across Italy, India, and Indonesia [book] Gilbert, Elizabeth
• Eva's story: a survivor's tale by the stepsister of Anne Frank [book] Schloss, Eva 
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  • A Fire to Win. [book] Lombardo, John.

  • First they killed my father: a daughter of Cambodia remembers [book] Ung, Loung.

  • Flyboys: a true story of courage [book] Bradley, James.

  • For the sins of my father: a Mafia killer, his son, and the legacy of a mob life [book] DeMeo, Albert.

  • From Baghdad to America: life lessons from a dog named Lava [book] Kopelman, Jay.

  • From Baghdad, with love: a Marine, the war, and a dog named Lava [book] Kopelman, Jay.

  • George Washington, Spymaster: how the Americans outspied the British and w on the Revolutionary War [book] Allen, Thomas.

  • The good soldiers [book] Finkel, David.

  • Hell's Angels: a strange and terrible saga [book] Thompson, Hunter S.

  • A home in the heart: the story of Sandra Cisneros [book] Brackett, Virginia.

  • I am a Soldier, Too - The Jessica Lynch Story. [book] Bragg, Rick.

  • In cold blood: a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences [book] Capote, Truman.

  • Jesus land: a memoir [book] Scheeres, Julia.

  • The kids are all right: a memoir [book] Welch, Diana.

  • The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell. [book] Crawford, John.

  • Left for dead: a young man's search for justice for the USS Indianapolis [book] Nelson, Peter.

  • Left to tell: discovering God amidst the Rw andan holocaust [book] Ilibagiza, Immaculée.

  • Let's roll! ordinary people, extraordinary courage.Beamer, Lisa with Ken Abraham.

  • A lion called Christian [book] Bourke, Anthony.

  • Little family, big values: lessons in love, respect, and understanding for families of any size [book] Roloff, Matt.

  • A Little house traveler: writings from Laura Ingalls Wilder's journeys across America [book] Wilder, Laura Ingalls.

  • The lost boy: a foster child's search for the love of a family [book] Pelzer, David J.

  • A love that multiplies: a up-close view of how they make it work [book] Duggar, Michelle.

  • A man named Dave: a story of triumph and forgiveness [book] Pelzer, David J.

  • Marley & me: life and love with the world's worst dog [book] Grogan, John.

  • Marooned: the strange but true adventures of Alexander Selkirk, the real Robinson Crusoe [book] Kraske, Robert.

  • The middle place [book] Corrigan, Kelly.

  • A mighty long way: my journey to justice at Little Rock Central High School [book] LaNier, Carlotta Walls.

  • Mistaken identity: two families, one survivor, unwavering hope [book].

  • Multiple bles8ings: surviving to thriving with twins and sextuplets [book] Gosselin, Jon.

  • My father, maker of the trees: how I survived the Rwandan genocide [book] Irivuzumugabe, Eric.

  • Not a happy camper: a memoir [book] Schneider, Mindy.

  • The odyssey of KP2: an orphan seal, a marine biologist, and the fight to save a species from extinction [book] Williams, Terrie M.

  • Off the deep end: the probably insane idea that I could swim my way through a midlife crisis--and qualify for the

  • Over a thousand hills I walk with you [book] Jansen, Hanna.

  • The poet slave of Cuba: a biography of Juan Francisco Manzano [book] Engle, Margarita.

  • The prize winner of Defiance, Ohio: how my mother raised 10 kids on 25 words or less [book] Ryan, Terry.

  • Reading Lolita in Tehran: a memoir in books [book] Nafisi, Azar.

  • A river runs through it and other stories [book] Maclean, Norman.

  • Say You're One of Them. [book] Akpan, Uwem.

  • Secrets of a Civil War submarine: solving the mysteries of the H.L. Hunley [book] Walker, Sally M.

  • She said yes: the unlikely martyrdom of Cassie Bernall [book] Bernall, M.

  • Soul Surfer: a true story of faith, family, and fighting to get back on the board [book] Hamilton, Bethany.

  • Steve & me [book] Irwin, Terri. book In10/8/13 nonfiction that reads like a novel

  • Still me [book] Reeve, Christopher.

  • Stolen innocence: my story of growing up in a polygamous sect, becoming a teenage bride, and breaking free of       Warren Jeffs [book]

  • Stolen lives: 20 years in a desert jail. [book]  Oufkir, Malika & Michele Fitousse.