HIT: Autobiographies

["D.M.Cushen" <dcushen@TOTAL.NET>]

Thanks to everyone who suggested autobiographies.  I've listed our own list and 
then the LM_NET suggestions.
Autobiographies & Memoirs for Enriched Grade 11 English


Angelou, Maya.  Gather Together in My Name. (1974)
--. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. (1969)
--. The Heart of a Woman. (1981)
--. Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like
Christmas. (1976)

Appleman-Jurman, Alicia.  Alicia, My Story.  (1988)

Ashe, Arthur.  Days of Grace: A Memoir.  (1993)

Bitton-Jackson, Livia.  I Have Lived a Thousand Years:
Growing Up in the Holocaust.(1997)

Carter, Rubin.  Sixteenth Round.

Cary, Lorene.  Black Ice: The Story of Lorene Cary. (1991)

Conway, Jill Ker.  The Road from Coorain.  (1989)

King, Martin Luther, Jr.  The Autobiography of Martin
        Luther King, Jr.

Lobel, Anita.  No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War.(1998)

Laurence, Margaret.  Dance on the Earth: A Memoir. (1989)

Liu, Eric.  The Accidental Asian.

Malcolm X.  The Autobiography of Malcolm X.  (1965)

Mathabane, Mark.  Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a
        Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa.  (1986)

Mathabane, Miriam and Mark Mathabane.  Miriam's Song.

McCourt, Frank.  Angela's Ashes.

Michener, Anna J.  Becoming Annie.

Mori, Kyoko.  The Dream of Water: A Memoir.  (1995)

Penfield, Wilder.  No Man Alone: A Neurosurgeon's
Life. (1977)

Ye, Ting-Xing.  A Leaf in the Bitter Wind: A Memoir(1997)

Wright, Richard.  Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and
        Youth. (1993)



Suggestions by LM_NET members

Malcolm X.
My Life by Isadora Duncan Dayle,

Little by Little
Vol 2: Stars Come Out Within by Jean Little

Although Jean Little is a children's writer and the book it written to be
readable by her fans it is a great story of triumphing over adversity and
not too young for 11th grade.
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A Girl From Yam Hill
Vol 2: My Own Two Feet
author: Beverly Cleary

For all those who grew up on her books, this is great. Too old for her
young fans but perfect for those who remember her books. Lots of her
autobiography has shown up in her stories of Beezus and Ramona and others.
Also she had great trouble with her mother (perhaps appropriate for those
11th graders who think their mothers are in the way).
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Bill Peet An Autobiography

Great, great, great. Half of each page is his pictures. He goes from his
early years, struggle to graduate from high school and college, working
with Walt Disney, etc.


There are thousands of holocaust related ones. My two favorites are the
second volumes of each of these. They treat what happened after release
from camps, not as easy as one might have liked to think.

Upon The Head of the Goat
Vol 2:  Grace in the Wilderness
author: Aranka Siegal

The Cage
Vol 2: To Life
author: Ruth Minsky Sender


H. L. Mencken wrote Happy Days, Newpaper Days, Heathen Days, and A Choice of
Days (a selection from the above three). Since he is considered one of
America's great critics and is regularily quoted he would be a good choice.
Also, he is a very entertaining writer.


A Child Called IT and The Lost Boy, both by Dave Pelzer. After the kids
read these they'll never complain about their parents again!!




Dayle Cushen
School Librarian
Lindsay Place H.S.
Pointe Claire, Quebec, Canada
dcushen@total.net

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