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Author
Publisher
University of Nevada Press
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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Description
"Willa Cather has long been admired for O Pioneers! (1913), Song of the Lark (1915), and My Ántonia (1918), the so-called "prairie novels" that launched her career; but the author's admirers have struggled to explain how a writer growing up in a small town in Nebraska in the late nineteenth century could have transformed what she remembered into literary greatness. A century later, scholars acknowledge Cather's place in the canon of American literature...
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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Description
"After sixteen novels, Jacqueline Winspear has taken the bold step of turning to memoir, revealing the hardships and joys of her family history. Both shockingly frank and deftly restrained, her memoir tackles such difficult, poignant, and fascinating family memories as her paternal grandfather's shellshock, her mother's evacuation from London during the Blitz; her soft-spoken animal-loving father's torturous assignment to an explosives team during...
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
"HOLLYWOOD PARK is a remarkable memoir of a tumultuous life. Mikel Jollett was born into one of the country's most infamous cults, and subjected to a childhood filled with poverty, addiction, and emotional abuse. Yet, ultimately, his is a story of fierce love and family loyalty told in a raw, poetic voice that signals the emergence of a uniquely gifted writer. We were never young. We were just too afraid of ourselves. No one told us who we were or...
7) Change up
Author
Publisher
Jeter Children's, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Young Derek's dream of sailing to a championship under his father's coaching is complicated by unexpected challenges.
8) Hit & miss
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Young Derek Jeter's friendship with a new student puts him at odds with his friends and seems to be hurting his baseball swing, plus he gets in trouble for confronting a student who is bullying his sister, in violation of the contract with his parents.
9) Fair ball
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"Derek is juggling finals and a baseball tournament during the last few weeks of school, but when his friend Dave starts ignoring him, Derek's perfect summer starts to look less fun"--
10) Ugly
Author
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Robert Hoge was born with a tumor the size of a tennis ball in the middle of his face and short, twisted legs, but he refused to let what made him different stand in the way of leading a happy, successful life. This is the true story of how he embraced his circumstances and never let his "ugly" stop him from focusing on what truly mattered."--
11) Me ... Jane
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Holding her stuffed toy chimpanzee, young Jane Goodall observes nature, reads Tarzan books, and dreams of living in Africa and helping animals. Includes biographical information on the prominent zoologist.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Born into the middle of World War II, Gary Paulsen's turbulent childhood provided plenty of subject matter for his bestselling novels, and the librarians in his life gave him the inspiration and support to explore the world through books. As a soldier himself, his storytelling technique developed, and for the first time he shares his own.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
The award-winning author and artist recounts his childhood in Cold War-era Russia as a young boy desperate to understand his place in his family. With a masterful mix of comic timing and disarming poignancy, Newbery Honoree Eugene Yelchin offers a memoir of growing up in Cold War Russia.
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
After eight commanding works of fiction, the Pulitzer Prize winner now turns to memoir in a hilarious, moving, and always surprising account of his life, his parents, and the upstate New York town they all struggled variously to escape.Anyone familiar with Richard Russo's acclaimed novels will recognize Gloversville once famous for producing that eponymous product and anything else made of leather. This is where the author grew up, the only son of...
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Two popular series, Ready-to-Read and Childhood of Famous Americans, combine to present the story of young Ben Franklin who loves doing experiments and cannot wait to test out his latest idea involving a kite!
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"Birder, environmentalist and activist Mya-Rose Craig is an international force. In her moving memoir, Birdgirl, she chronicles her mother's struggle with mental illness, and shares her passion for social justice and fierce dedication to preserving our planet. Meet Mya-Rose - otherwise known as "Birdgirl." In her words: "Birdwatching has never felt like a hobby, or a pastime I can pick up and put down, but a thread running through the pattern of my...
18) A history of me
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
"A mother's account of her experience as the only Black child in school serves as an empowering message to her daughter"--
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
A collection of stories that reveal Kinsey's origins-- and Grafton's past. The nine stories that open the book show how fully formed Kinsey was from the beginning. The thirteen stories in the second part, written in the decade following her mother's death, feature Kit Blue, a younger version of Grafton herself, and reflect her troubled family life and the author's journey from anger to understanding and forgiveness.