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Children's Recommendations - Autobiographies

Children's - Autobiographies

down_a_sunny_dirt_road
ISBN: 0375814035
Title: Down a sunny dirt road : an autobiography by Stan & Jan Berenstain - In alternating chapters, Stan and Jan Berenstain, creators of the Berenstain Bears, tell their own stories
Author: Berenstain, Stan, 1923-2005.
boitanos_edge
ISBN: 0689819153
Title: Boitano's edge : inside the real world of figure skating by Brian Boitano - Olympic ice skating champion Brian Boitano describes the sport of figure skating and his own experiences as a skater
Author: Boitano, Brian.
Through my eyes
ISBN: 0590189239
Title: Through my eyes by Ruby Bridges - Ruby Bridges recounts the story of her involvement, as a six-year-old, in the integration of her school in New Orleans in 1960
Author: Bridges, Ruby.
Book cover for William Wells' autobiography FROM SLAVE TO ABOLITIONIST
ISBN: 0803727437
Title: From slave to abolitionist : the life of William Wells Brown adapted by Lucille Schulberg Warner - Autobiography of William Wells Brown who was born and raised a slave but when freed, devoted his life to the abolitionist movement
Author: Warner, Lucille Schulberg.
Flora and Tiger
ISBN: 0399232036
Title: Flora and Tiger : 19 very short stories from my life by Eric Carle - The author recalls experiences from his childhood in Germany and his later life in the United States, all connected in some way to animals
Author: Carle, Eric.
Tomie de Paola's 26 FAIRMOUNT AVENUE book cover
Title: 26 Fairmount Avenue by Tomie dePaola - The first book in the autobiography series in which children’s author-illustrator Tomie De Paola describes his experiences at home and at school when he was a boy
Author: De Paola, Tomie.
Escape from slavery
ISBN: 0679846514
Title: Escape from slavery : the boyhood of Frederick Douglass in his own words by Michael McCurdy - A shortened autobiography presenting the early life of the slave who became an abolitionist, journalist, and statesman
Author: Douglass, Frederick, 1817?-1895.
Sid Fleischman's THE ABRACADABRA KID book cover
Title: The abracadabra kid : a writer's life by Sid Fleischman - The autobiography of the Newbery Award-winning children’s author who set out from childhood to be a magician
Author: Fleischman, Sid, 1920-2010
Book cover for William Wells' autobiography FROM SLAVE TO ABOLITIONIST
ISBN: 1559700491
Title: War boy : a country childhood by Michael Foreman - A moving personal narrative of a child's stay in the English countryside during World War II
Author: Foreman, Michael, 1938-
Anne Frank
ISBN: 0385473788
Title: The diary of a young girl by Anne Frank - A thirteen-year-old Dutch-Jewish girl records her impressions of the two years she and seven others spent hiding from the Nazis before they were discovered and taken to concentration camps
Author: Frank, Anne, 1929-1945.
Eleanors story
ISBN: 1561451932
Title: Eleanor's story : an American girl in Hitler's Germany by Eleanor Ramrath Garner - A chilling story of a young American girl and her family and how they survived in Germany during World War II
Author: Garner, Eleanor Ramrath.
Book cover for The land I lost : adventures of a boy in Vietnam by Huynh Quang Nhuong
Title: The land I lost : adventures of a boy in Vietnam by Huynh Quang Nhuong - A collection of personal reminiscences of the author’s youth in a small village on the central highlands of Vietnam
Author: Huynh, Quang Nhuong.
lone_cow_boy
ISBN: 9780878423576
Title: Lone cowboy : my life story by Will James - The Newbery Medal winning author of Smoky the Cowhorse tells his story
Author: James, Will, 1892-1942.
chewing_the_cud
ISBN: 0375914595
Title: Chewing the cud by Dick King-Smith - Dick King-Smith recounts his life from soldier to farmer to salesman to factory worker to teacher to, finally, author
Author: King-Smith, Dick.
Lost the Childhood
ISBN: 9781426303227
Title: Lost childhood : my life in a Japanese prison camp during World War II by Annelex Hofstra Layson - Experiences of a family and other Dutch residents on the island of Java are shared after they were interred by the Japanese in 1942 in a prison camp
Author: Layson, Annelex Hofstra.
author_a_true_story
ISBN: 0395827442
Title: Author : a true story by Helen Lester - Children's author Helen Lester describes her life from age three to adulthood
Author: Lester, Helen.
Book cover for Little by Little : a writer's education by Jean Little
ISBN: 0670816493
Title: Little by Little : a writer's education by Jean Little - Powerful memoir of the author's childhood and adolescence and her battle to overcome failing eyesight
Author: Little, Jean.
Rascal
ISBN: 0525188398
Title: Rascal by Sterling North - The author recalls his adventures with his pet raccoon, Rascal, during his carefree childhood in a small Midwestern town at the close of World War I
Author: North, Sterling, 1906-
Rosa parks
ISBN: 0803706731
Title: Rosa Parks : my story by Rosa Parks - Rosa Parks' life story reveals the deliberate choices she made that earned her the title "Mother to a Movement"
Author: Parks, Rosa, 1913-
My life in dog years
ISBN: 0385325703
Title: My life in dog years by Gary Paulsen - The author describes how dogs have impacted his life from childhood through the present day
Author: Paulsen, Gary.
Bill Peet
ISBN: 9780395509326
Title: Bill Peet : an autobiography by Bill Peet - The well-known author and illustrator relates the story of his life and work
Author: Peet, Bill.
Book cover for Breakthrough to the big league : the story of Jackie Robinson
ISBN: 9781559050944
Title: Breakthrough to the big league : the story of Jackie Robinson by Jackie Robinson - The story of the baseball star who was the first black player to be accepted by a major league team
Author: Robinson, Jackie, 1919-1972.
Drawing from memory
ISBN: 9780545176866
Title: Drawing from memory by Allen Say - Chronicling his journey as an artist during World War II, when he apprenticed under Noro Shinpei, Japan's premier cartoonist, this book is Allen Say's own story of his path to becoming the renowned artist he is today
Author: Say, Allen.
knucklehead
ISBN: 9780670011063
Title: Knucklehead : tall tales & mostly true stories about growing up Scieszka by Jon Scieszka - Part memoir, part scrapbook, this trip down memory lane provides a unique glimpse into the formation of a creative mind and a free spirit
Author: Scieszka, Jon.
upon_the_head_of_the_goat
ISBN: 0374380597
Title: Upon the head of the goat : a childhood in Hungary, 1939-1944 by Aranka Siegal - Nine-year-old Piri describes the bewilderment of being a Jewish child during the 1939-1944 German occupation of her hometown in Hungary
Author: Siegal, Aranka.
The Wall
ISBN: 9780374347017
Title: The wall : growing up behind the Iron Curtain by Peter Sís - Artist Peter Sis describes what it was like growing up in a Communist country and discusses how Western culture influenced his life
Author: Sís, Peter, 1949-
tall_chief
ISBN: 0670887560
Title: Tallchief : America's prima ballerina by Maria Tallchief - Ballerina Maria Tallchief describes her childhood on an Osage reservation, the development of her love of dance, and her rise to success in that field
Author: Tallchief, Maria.
The little Tiger
ISBN: 0887763200
Title: A little tiger in the Chinese night : an autobiography in art by Song Nan Zhang - A Chinese artist recounts his life through illustrations
Author: Zhang, Song Nan.