Does history have to be boring and dry? Not if a person takes the familiar and adds an earthshaking twist! To begin the collaborative process, work with a willing teacher. This article talks about a teaching collaboration between the author as a library media specialist and Beth who was interested in literature circle titles for her 6th grade class. There are many good 20th century historical fiction titles, so Beth decided to have students choose individual books and create literature circle groups who were reading about the same historical time period. As they begin to read the books in class, Beth helped them figure out the time period when the events in their books took place. In their district, 20th century history is not taught until high school, so Beth is worried that their students might not have the background to understand their historical fiction novels. Thus, the author offers some lessons to help students cope with that obstacle. Moreover, the collaborative process is successful when the author wrote a reader's theatre play "Swallowed by a Crack in the Floor" for the students to perform that was full of information, some from primary and some from secondary sources. Students are enthusiastic about their 20th century historical fiction books and have a better grasp of 20th century history. They had fun collaborating, and though they all crowded around to look at it, no student fell through the crack in the library media center floor!