Memoirs for Kids and Teens
16 handpicked first-person memoirs, mostly for ages 8 and up: graphic memoirs of childhoods in Iran, Lebanon and Turkey, growing up behind the Iron Curtain, an artist's childhood in Shanghai, a Maasai boyhood, a boy soldier in Sierra Leone, the ballerina Michaela DePrince, a windmill builder in Malawi, and the true story behind Lion.
Books in this collection
A Game For Swallows To Die To Leave To Return Single Titles
Dare To Disappoint Growing Up In Turkey
A Year Without Mom
The Wall Growing Up Behind The Iron Curtain Caldecott Honor Book
The House Baba Built: An Artist’s Childhood in China
Enchanted Air Two Cultures Two Wings A Memoir
Facing The Lion Growing Up Maasai On The African Savanna
A Gift From Childhood Memories Of An African Boyhood
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina
Ballerina Dreams: From Orphan to Dancer (Step Into Reading, Step 4)
I Will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two Lives
Lion: A Long Way Home Young Readers’ Edition
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, Young Reader’s Edition
