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  2. Tag: Biography/Autobiography/Memoir

Biography/Autobiography/Memoir

Born Naughty: My Childhood in China

Posted on August 26, 2024

An utterly delightful, early chapter book memoir chronicles author Jin Wang’s life in Nan Ba Zi, a village (“about eighteen houses…and a tiny store”) in Inner Mongolia, China, the year she was eight.

Posted in Book of the WeekTagged 2024 Books, Biography/Autobiography/Memoir

Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir

Posted on August 7, 2023

Pedro Martín’s exuberant graphic memoir about growing up the seventh of nine kids in a Mexican American family in the 1970s is full of teasing and love, poignancy and laugh-out-loud humor.

Posted in Book of the WeekTagged 2023 Books, Biography/Autobiography/Memoir, Graphic Novel

The In-Between

Posted on July 17, 2023

In this memoir in verse, the author recalls the period in her childhood when she, her two younger siblings, and their mother were evicted from their apartment.

Posted in Book of the WeekTagged 2023 Books, Biography/Autobiography/Memoir

Rock, Rosetta, Rock! Roll, Rosetta, Roll! Presenting Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the Godmother of Rock & Roll

Posted on April 17, 2023

“Bold, audacious, in a word, bodacious … ” A joyful picture book biography introduces Sister Rosetta Tharpe and celebrates her singular musical talent, which was apparent from the time she was a child.

Posted in Book of the WeekTagged 2023 Books, Biography/Autobiography/Memoir, Informational, Picture Book

The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be: A Speculative Memoir of Transracial Adoption

Posted on April 3, 2023

An experimental work blending science fiction and memoir recalls actual experiences as a transracial adoptee from Shannon Gibney’s childhood, adolescence, and adulthood as well as imagining what her life might have been like had she not been placed for adoption as an infant.

Posted in Book of the WeekTagged 2023 Books, Biography/Autobiography/Memoir

A First Time for Everything

Posted on March 27, 2023

After several painful experiences with middle school bullies, all Dan wants is to fly under the radar, to be quiet and unnoticed by his peers.

Posted in Book of the WeekTagged 2023 Books, Biography/Autobiography/Memoir, Graphic Novel

Star Child: A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler

Posted on April 4, 2022

An inspired biography uses poems and prose to explore the life of groundbreaking African American speculative and science fiction writer Octavia Butler.

Posted in Book of the WeekTagged 2022 Books, Biography/Autobiography/Memoir

The Genius Under the Table: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain

Posted on November 22, 2021

Eugene Yelchin’s funny, tender memoir recounts aspects of his childhood and young adulthood in Leningrad during the Cold War.

Posted in Book of the WeekTagged 2021 Books, Biography/Autobiography/Memoir

Everything Sad Is Untrue

Posted on August 24, 2020

Nayeri’s poignant, engaging memoir begins with a vivid childhood memory of a visit to his grandparents when he was still a little boy known as Khorsou living in Iran.

Posted in Book of the WeekTagged 2020 Books, Biography/Autobiography/Memoir

When Stars Are Scattered

Posted on June 1, 2020

Separated from their mother when soldiers attacked their Somalian village, Omar and his brother, Hassan, live in a sprawling refugee camp in Kenya, watched over by loving foster mother Fatuma.

Posted in Book of the WeekTagged 2020 Books, Biography/Autobiography/Memoir, Graphic Novel
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