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Appelt, Kathi
My Father's Summers: a Daughter's Memoir
With prose poems and family photos, Appelt vividly captures moments of her youth, including long absences of her military father.
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Bryson, Bill
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
Like millions of his peers, Bill Bryson grew up with a rich fantasy life as a superhero. He brings us into the life of his loving but eccentric family and his childhood.
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Crutcher, Chris
King of the Mild Frontier: an Ill-Advised Autobiography
Do you know: a good reason to be phobic about oysters and olives? That you can step inside a roaring coal furnace and feel cool? Chris Crutcher knows these things, and more!
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Hillman, Laura
I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree: a Memoir of a Schindler's Lis Survivor
A look at the life of a teenager who survived eight concentration camps over the course of three years. This is an amazing story of loss, endurance, hope.
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Houze, David
Twilight People: One Man's Journey to Find His Roots
Houze's journey of self-discovery and reconnection that ranged from the dirt roads of Mississippi to the shores of South Africa and back.
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Kimmel, Haven
A Girl Named Zippy
Nicknamed Zippy for her energy and spunk, Haven tells the story of her happy and hilarious childhood in the Midwest.
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Ma, Yan
The Diary of Ma Yan
Thirteen-year-old Ma Yan, a peasant in the drought-scarred province of Ningxia, China managed to receive an education despite extreme poverty and hardship.
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Ragusa, Kym
The Skin Between Us: A Memoir of Race, Beauty, and Belonging
Both Italian American and African America, Kym struggled to find a place for herself. In this book, she brings to life the two families and the warring, but ultimately similar, communities that defined her.
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Rouse, Wade
America's Boy
Born in 1965 into a small town in the heartland of America, Wade Rouse didn't quite fit in. He struggles with his own identity through the loss of a brother and the traumas of being different.
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Sartor, Margaret
Miss American Pie: a Diary
This is the author's real diary from growing up in the 1970s, including her feelings on boys, sex, racial inequality, family pressures, school, and everything else affecting a typical American teenager.
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Scheeres, Julia
Jesus Land
For Julia Scheeres and her adopted brother David, "Jesus Land" stretched from their parents' fundamentalist home, past the hostilities of high school, and deep into a Christian reform school in the Dominican Republic. |
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Summer, Lauralee
Learning Joy From Dogs Without Collars
This is the story of a girl coming into her own, learning and understanding her place in the world, from homelessness and hopelessness, to Harvard and beyond.
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Trope, Zoe
Please Don't Kill the Freshman
In this wickedly intelligent and peotically wise memoir written from the trenches of high school, Trope reminds readers that adolescence is a time of rare clarity, emergent self-awareness, and heartrending hope.
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Wolfe, Swain
Boy Who Invented Skiing
Swain Wolfe spent his childhood in magical places, exploring the mesas and tunnels of his father's tuberculosis sanatorium near the Garden of the Gods and later his stepfather's six-thousand-acre ranch on a horse named Joe.
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Zailckas, Koren
Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood
From earliest experimentation to full-blown abuse, 24-year-old Zailckas leads readers through her experience of bing drinking in this vivid cautionary tale.
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List updated by Connie, April 2007
