Fiction/Nonfiction Book Pairs

For each topic, there is a nonfiction book and a corresponding fiction book. The fiction book is always the second one listed and typically has a call number beginning with "Y PZ."

Apples
The Apple Pie Tree by Zoe Hall
Y SB363 .H234 1996
The Apple Pie that Papa Baked by Lauren Thompson
Y PZ7.T37163 Ap 2007x
April Fools
April Fools' Day by Emily Kelley
Y GT4995.A6 K44 1983
Pearl and Wagner: One Funny Day by Kate McMullan
Y PZ7.M47879 Pdc 2009
Baseball
You Never Heard of Sandy Koufax?! by Jonah Winter
Y GV865.K67 W56 2009
Ernest L. Thayer's Casey At the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888 by Christopher Bing
Y PS3014.T3 C3 2000
Birthdays
Happy Birthday! by Gail Gibbons
Y GT2460 .G53 1986
A Birthday for Bear by Bonny Becker
Boats
Boat Book by Gail Gibbons
Y VM150 .G53 1983
Boats: Speeding! Sailing! Cruising! by Patricia Hubbell
Y PZ8.3.H848 Bo 2009
Bullies
Bullies Are a Pain in the Brain by Trevor Romain
Y BF637.B85 R66 1997
Third Grade Bullies by Elizabeth Levy
Y PZ7.L5827 Th 1998
Butterflies
Butterflies and Moths by Nic Bishop
Y QL544.2 .B48 2009
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
Y PZ7.C21476 Ve 1987x
Cars
Cars and How they Go by Joanna Cole
Y TL147 .C54 1983
Hot Rod Hamster by Cynthia Lord
Y PZ7.L87734 Hot 2010
Changing Leaves
Autumn Leaves by Ken Robbins
Y QK649 .R63 1998
Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf by Lois Ehlert
Y PZ7.E3225 Re 1991
Dairy
The Milk Makers by Gail Gibbons
Y SF239.5 .G53 1985
Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type by Doreen Cronin
Y PZ7.C88135 Cl 2000
Dust Bowl
Years of Dust: The Story of the Dust Bowl by Albert Marrin
Y F595 .M343 2009
Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
Y PZ7.H4364 Ou 1997
Firefighters
I Want to Be a Firefighter by Dan Liebman
Y TH9148 .I25 1999x
This is the Firefighter by Laura Godwin
Y PZ8.3.G5465 Th 2009
Friendship
How to Be a Friend: A Guide to Making Friends and Keeping Them by Laurie Krasny Brown and Marc Brown
Y BF723.F68 B76 1998
Ladybug Girl and Bumblebee Boy by David Soman and Jacky Davis
Y PZ7.S696224 Lb 2009
Frogs
Frogs by Nic Bishop
Y QL668.E2 B47 2008
Frog and Toad Are Friends by Arnold Lobel
Y PZ7.L7795 Fr
Harriet Tubman
Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led her People to Freedom by Carole Boston Weatherford
Y E444.T82 W43 2006x
Aunt Harriet's Underground Railroad in the Sky by Faith Ringgold
Y PZ7.R4726 Au 1992
Kites
Catch the Wind!: All About Kites by Gail Gibbons
Y TL759.5 .G53 1989
My Pig Amarillo by Satomi Ichikawa
Y PZ7.I16 My 2003
Librarians
Check It Out!: The Book About Libraries by Gail Gibbons
Y Z665.5 .G53 1985
Miss Brooks Loves Books (And I Don't) by Barbara Bottner
Y PZ7.B6586 Mi 2010
Lighthouses
Beacons of Light: Lighthouses by Gail Gibbons
Y VK1023 .G48 1990
The Lighthouse Dog by Betty Waterton
Y PZ7.W2644 Li 1997
Monarch Butterflies
Monarch Butterfly by Gail Gibbons
Y QL561.D3 G53 1989
Hurry and the Monarch by Antoine OĢ Flatharta
Y PZ7.O331275 Hu 2005
Presidency
So You Want to be President? by Judith St. George
Y E176.1 .S699 2000
Duck for President by Doreen Cronin
Y PZ7.C88135 Du 2004
Seasons
Every Season by Shelley Rotner and Anne Love Woodhull
Y QB637.4 .R68 2007
Old Bear by Kevin Henkes
Y PZ7.H389 Okh 2008
Spiders
Spiders by Seymour Simon
Y QL458.4 .S585 2003
Diary of a Spider by Doreen Cronin
Y PZ7.C88135 Dg 2005
Statue of Liberty
Lady Liberty: A Biography by Doreen Rappaport
Y F128.64.L6 R36 2008
A Picnic in October by Eve Bunting
Y PZ7.B91527 Ph 1999
Titanic
All Stations! Distress! : April 15, 1912, the Day the Titanic Sank by Don Brown
Y G530.T6 B756 2008
Polar, the Titanic Bear by Daisy Corning Stone Spedden
Y PZ7.S7414 Po 1994x
Trains
Trains by Gail Gibbons
Y TF148 .G53 1987
Jingle the Brass by Patricia Newman
Y PZ7.N4854 Ji 20
Valentine's Day
Valentine's Day by Gail Gibbons
Y GT4925 .G5 1986
Roses Are Pink, Your Feet Really Stink by Diane deGroat
Y PZ7.D3639 Ro 1996