This article provides an overview of a unit plan that integrates nonfiction and issues surrounding social justice. The author's goal for the article is first and foremost about practice, highlighting a unit they taught using nonfiction that centered on how reading and writing can be used to address issues of social justice and change. The author provides pedagogical tools and strategies that help students to analyze and synthesize multiple nonfiction texts while simultaneously learning more about historical circumstances and injustices, particularly how they are interconnected. In addition to these critical thinking and reading goals, this plan exposes students to various modes of nonfiction creative writing, so that students use mentor texts as models to experiment with new genres.