1. What is Narrative Nonfiction?
Day 4

3. Examples of Narrative Non-Fiction

4. Just in Time Abraham Lincoln
Michael and Derek don't expect the adventure of a lifetime visiting a Civil War museum with their grandmother.
But the mysterious museum keeper invites them to play a game, and before they know it, they're walking through a door straight into a very realistic depiction of 1863.
They see the destruction at the battlefield of Antietam, and even meet President Lincoln.
Soon, they start to wonder if it's really a game, after all - and suddenly they're racing across Confederate-occupied land to return to their own time before it's too late.

5. Pink and Say
Pink and Say highlights the brief but intimate friendship of two young boys, Pinkus Aylee (Pink) and Sheldon Curtis (Say), during the Civil War.
When wounded attempting to escape his unit, Say is rescued by Pink, who carries him back to his Georgia home where he and his family were slaves.
While the frightened soldier is nursed back to health under the care of Pink’s mother, Moe Moe Bay, he begins to understand why his new found friend is so adamant on returning to the war; to fight against "the sickness" that is slavery.
However it isn’t until marauders take Moe Moe Bay’s life, that Say is driven to fight.
Although ultimately, both boys are taken prisoners of the Confederate Army, fortunately Say survives and was unable to pass along the story of Pink and Say to his daughter Rosa, Patricia Polacco’s great grandmother.

6. As it was told, Pink was hanged just shortly after being taken prisoner, therefore Patricia’s book "serves as a written memory" of him.
At the end of the story Patricia bids the reader, "Before you put this book down, say his name (Pinkus Aylee) out loud and vow to remember him always.“
One of the more heartwarming moments of the story is when Say tells Pink and his mother that he once shook the hand of Abraham Lincoln.
Convinced that his encounter is a "sign" of hope, Say reaches for Pink’s hand, exclaiming, "Now you can say you touched the hand that shook the hand of Abraham Lincoln!"
At the end of the story when the boys are separated, Pink reaches for Say one last time to touch his hand.

7. The Butterfly
Since the Nazis, with their tall boots, have marched into Monique's small French village, terrorizing it, nothing surprises her.
It is war! Then, one night, Monique encounters "the little ghost" sitting at the end of her bed.
When she turns out to be - not a ghost at all - but a young Jewish girl named Sevrine, who has been hiding from the Nazis in Monique's own basement, how could Monique not be surprised!
Playing secretly after dark in Monique's room, the two become friends, until, in a terrifying moment, they are discovered, sending their families into a nighttime flight.