I can't keep my own secrets : six-word memoirs by teens famous + obscure : from Smith magazine - Rachel Fershleiser and Larry Smith

Publisher: HarperTeen
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/01/2009

ISBN-13: 9780061726842
ISBN-10: 0061726842

Collects memoirs from hundreds of teenagers composed of six words, ranging from the humorous to inspiring and dramatic, and includes six-word autobiographies from popular teenage celebrities.

Soul surfer : a true story of faith, family, and fighting to get back on the board - Bethany Hamilton, Sheryl Berk and Rick Bundschuh

Publisher: MTV Books/Pocket Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 06/06/2006

ISBN-13: 9781416503460
ISBN-10: 1416503463

The teenage surfer who lost her arm in a shark attack in 2003 describes how she has coped with this life-altering event, how her faith has inspired her to keep going, how her life has changed, and how her own dreams of surfing success have led her to return to the sport she loves. Reprint. 60,000 first printing.

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A long way gone : memoirs of a boy soldier - Ishmael Beah

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 02/13/2007

ISBN-13: 9780374105235
ISBN-10: 0374105235

In a heart-wrenching, candid autobiography, a human rights activist offers a firsthand account of war from the perspective of a former child soldier, detailing the violent civil war that wracked his native Sierra Leone and the government forces that transformed a gentle young boy into a killer as a member of the army. 75,000 first printing.

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The glass castle : a memoir - Jeannette Walls

Publisher: Scribner
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 03/01/2005

ISBN-13: 9780743247535
ISBN-10: 0743247531

The second child of a scholarly, alcoholic father and an eccentric artist mother discusses her family's nomadic upbringing from the Arizona desert, to Las Vegas, to an Appalachian mining town, during which her siblings and she fended for themselves while their parents outmaneuvered bill collectors and the authorities. 40,000 first printing.

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Hypocrite in a pouffy white dress : tales of growing up groovy and clueless - Susan Jane Gilman

Publisher: Warner Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 01/01/2005

ISBN-13: 9780446679497
ISBN-10: 0446679496

A collection of true stories by everyday women follows such remembrances as coming of age as an unfashionable white girl in an all-Puerto Rican neighborhood, experiencing embarrassment in front of a rock star, and receiving horrible mistreatment by a "feminist" boss. By the author of Kiss MY Tiara. Original.

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Always running : La Vida Loca, gang days in L.A. - Luis J. Rodriguez

Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 02/01/1994

ISBN-13: 9780671882310
ISBN-10: 0671882317

A former L.A. gang member describes his experiences in that world, recounting the sense of security and power found in a gang and the grim reality of violence and poverty. Reprint. 60,000 first printing. Tour.

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The pregnancy project : a memoir - Gaby Rodriguez and Jenna Glatzer

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 01/17/2012

ISBN-13: 9781442446229
ISBN-10: 1442446226

The teenager famed for faking a pregnancy as part of a social experiment describes the family and cultural history of teen pregnancy that shaped her life, her observations about how she was treated when she pretended to be pregnant and her feelings about the consequences of low expectations.

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The geeks shall inherit the Earth : popularity, quirk theory, and why outsiders thrive after high school - Alexandra Robbins

Publisher: Hyperion
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/03/2011

ISBN-13: 9781401302023
ISBN-10: 1401302025

The best-selling author of The Overachievers explores how group identity theories play out among high-school cliques and the students they exclude, offering insight into the ostracism of categorized students while analyzing the long-term positive and negative effects of peer marginalization. 75,000 first printing.

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Wheels of change : how women rode the bicycle to freedom (with a few flat tires along the way) - Sue Macy

Publisher: National Geographic
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 01/11/2011

ISBN-13: 9781426307614
ISBN-10: 1426307616

Through vintage photographs, advertisements, cartoons and songs, a lively look at women's history transports young readers to bygone eras to see how women used the bicycle to improve their lives.

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Bootleg : murder, moonshine, and the lawless years of prohibition - Karen Blumenthal

Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/24/2011

ISBN-13: 9781596434493
ISBN-10: 159643449X

Filled with period art and photographs, anecdotes and portraits of unique characters from the era, a review of an important time in American history looks at the rise and fall of the disastrous social experiment known as Prohibition.

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The autobiography of Malcolm X - Malcolm X and Alex Haley

Publisher: Ballantine Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 02/01/1992

ISBN-13: 9780345376718
ISBN-10: 0345376714

The black leader discusses his political philosophy and reveals details of his life, shedding light on the ideas that enabled him to gain the allegiance of a still growing percentage of the black population. Reprint. 75,000 first printing. Major ad/promo.

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A child called "it" : one child's courage to survive - David J. Pelzer

Publisher: Health Communications
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/01/1995

ISBN-13: 9781558743663
ISBN-10: 1558743669

Tells the story of a child's abuse at the hands of his alcoholic mother.

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Into the wild - Jon Krakauer

Publisher: Anchor Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 02/01/1997

ISBN-13: 9780385486804
ISBN-10: 0385486804

A portrait of Chris McCandless chronicles his decision to withdraw from society and adopt the persona of Alexander Supertramp, offering insight into his beliefs about the wilderness and his tragic death in the Alaskan wilderness. Reprint. Tour.

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Stick figure : a diary of my former self - Lori Gottlieb

Publisher: Berkley Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 08/11/2008

ISBN-13: 9781439519530
ISBN-10: 1439519536

A diary-style biography of a woman's coming-of-age in 1970s Beverly Hills describes a world in which she learned that "no one could ever like a girl with thunder thighs," and watched her life crumble as she developed a fierce reluctance to eat--winding up in the hospital when her "diet" took over her life. Reprint.

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Alicia : my story - Alicia Appleman-Jurman

Publisher: Bantam Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 01/01/1990

ISBN-13: 9780553282184
ISBN-10: 0553282182

Recounts the capture of Alicia, her mother, and brother by the Nazis, Alicia's escape and rescue of other Jews during the war, and her leadership of an underground escape route for Jews when she was sixteen years old.

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Autobiography of a face - Lucy Grealy

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/01/1994

ISBN-13: 9780395657805
ISBN-10: 0395657806

With eloquent candor, a woman who in childhood endured a severly disfiguring cancer offers a meditation on the pain, and healing she has endured, searching through a culture obsessed with physical beauty for love, acceptance, and inner peace. Tour.

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Mao's last dancer - Cunxin Li

Publisher: Putnam
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 03/01/2004

ISBN-13: 9780399150968
ISBN-10: 039915096X

In a compelling memori of life in Maoist China, the acclaimed dancer describes how he was swept from his poverty-stricken family in rural China to study ballet with the Peking Dance Academy, his rise to success in the world of Chinese ballet, his dramatic defection at age eighteen in the United States, and his new life in the West.

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