Teaching and Learning discussion

One of my favorite approaches to literature in the classroom is pairing a nonfiction title with a related fiction one. For readers, this helps give them the necessary background knowledge they may need to understand events in the fictional story or just peak their interest in the subject in general, while at the same time exposing them to multiple genres. As a teacher, this approach also allowed me to bring in books at various reading levels to help reach all my students.

The first two books I've read the summer paired well together so I thought I'd share them:

The Camel Family (nonfiction)
Exiled Memoirs of a Camel (fiction)

(for middle grades)

Anyone else have other pairing suggestions?

Jean Jacques Rousseau has two major works of philosophy that are relevant to development and growth in our own Educational Standards. They are entitiled Julia and Emile. I am in the learning stages of French again, and am hoping to discover the influence these works have on french authors of Literature.
Thank You