Memoirs

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• A Child Called It, by Dave Pelzer
• A Road From Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl by David Kherdian
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Betty Smith
• All Over But the Shoutin', by Rick Bragg
• An American Childhood, Annie Dillard
• Angela's Ashes, by Frank McCourt
• Autobiography of a Face, by Lucy Grealy
• Bad Boy by Walter Dean Myers
• Black Boy, Richard Wright
• Blooming:  A Smalll-Town Girlhood  by Susan Alllen Toth
• Borrowed Finery by Paula Fox
• Boy by Roald Dahl
• Boy With Loaded Gun:  A Memoir  by Lewis Nordan
• Boyhood:  Scenes from Provincial Life, by JM Coetzee
• Chinese Cinderella by Mah.
• Dharma Girl:  A Road Trip Across the Generations by Chelsea Cain
• Diary of Anne Frank.
• Dove, by Robin Graham
• Dust tracks on a road. Hurston, Zora Neale.
• Education of a Wandering Man, Louis L'Amour
• Farewell to Manzanaar, by Jeanne Watasuki Houston
• From the Mississippi Delta, by Endesha Ida Mae Holland
• Gary Soto's memoir
• Gather Together in My Name, by Maya Angelou
• Girl, Interrupted, by Susanna Kaysen
• Growing Up Inside the Sanctuary of My Imagination by Nicholasa Mohr
• Growing Up, by Russell Baker
• Guts by Gary Paulsen
• Hole in My Life by Jack Gantos
• Homer Hickam, Jr.
• House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
• How I Came to Be a Writer by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
• Hunger of Memory, Richard Rodriguez
• I Have Lived a Thousand Years, by L. Britton Jackson
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings -- Maya Angelou
• I was a Teenage Professional Wrestler by Ted Lewin
• In My Father's Court, by Isaac Beshevis Singer
• In My Hands by Irene Gut Opdyke with Jennifer Armstrong~
• Into Thin Air, by Jon Krakauer
• Invention of Solitude - Paul Auster
• Invention of Solitude by Paul Auster
• Joe and Me:  An Education in Fishing and Friendship, by James Prosek
• Journal of a revolutionary war woman. Greenberg, Judith E and Post, Lydia Minturn.
• Knots in My Yo Yo String by Jerry Spinelli
• Lakota Woman, by Mary Crow Dog
• Life on the Color Line" by Gregory Howard Williams
• Living Up the Street: Narrative Reflections by Gary Soto
• Lost in Place, by Mark Salzman
• Lost in the System by Charlotte Lopez, a foster child who eventually found her way to a loving family and Miss Teenage USA
• Lovesong by Julius Lester
• Makes Me Wanna Holler, by Nathan McCall
• Mama's Girl, by Veronica Chambers
• Me Me Me Me Me by M.E. Kerr
• Memories in Photographs  - Lois Lowry
• Milton Meltzer's memoir
• Miracle Man, by Nolan Ryan
• Modoc, by Ralph Helfer
• My Life in Dog Years, by Gary Paulsen
• Never Let Me Down:  A Memoir, by Susan J. Miller
• Night, by Elie Wiesel
• No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War, by Anita Loebel
• Passing For Normal:  A Memoir of Compulsion  by Amy Wilensky
• Paula Fox's memoir
• Pigman and Me by Paul Zindel (his teenage years)
• Planet of the Blind, by Stephen Kuusisto
• Project Girl by Janet McDonald
• Puppies, Dogs and Blue Northers, by Gary Paulsen
• Red Scarf Girl, by Ji-li Jiang
• Rocket Boys (aka October Sky in paperback version) --
• Rosa Parks:  My Story, by Rosa Parks
• Ryan White:  My Own Story by Ryan White
• Silent Dancing and The Latin Deli by Judith Ortiz Cofer
• Singin' and Swingin', by Maya Angelou
• Sleeping Arrangements- Laura Cunningham
• Small Steps: the Year I got Polio by Peg Kehret
• Soul on Ice, by Eldridge Cleaver
• Space : a memoir. Kercheval, Jesse Lee
• Sweet Summer, by Bebe Moore Campbell
• The Abracadabra Kid by Sid Fleishman
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X, with Alex Haley
• The Beautiful Days of My Youth, by Ana Novac
• The Beet Fields by Gary Paulsen
• The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant by Francisco Jimenez
• The Color of Water, by James McBride
• The Heart of a Woman, by Maya Angelou
• The Hiding Place, by Corrie Ten-Boom
• The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros
• The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan
• The Liars Club by Mary Karr
• The Lost Garden by Laurence Yep
• The Pigman and Me, by Paul Zindel
• The Road from Coorain, by Jill Ker Conway
• The secret diary of Adrian Mole / by Sue Townsend.
• The Woman Warrior, by Maxine Hong Kingston
• This Boy's Life, by Tobias Wolff
• Through my Eyes by Ruby Bridges
• 'Tis, by Frank McCourt
• Traveling Mercies, by Anne Lamott
• Twitch and Shout: A Touretter's Tale by Lowell Handler
• Warriors Don't Cry -- Melba Pattilo Beals (YA version
• Wasted:  A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia, by Marya Hornbacher
• What's that pig outdoors? : a memoir of deafness. Kisor, Henry.
• When I Was Puerto Rican and Almost a Woman by Esmeralda Santiago
• Who Killed My Daughter by Lois Duncan
• Woodsong, by Gary Paulsen
• Zlata's diary : a child's life in Sarajevo by  Zlata Filipovic

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