HIT: Middle School Author Memoirs

[Connie Pappas <connie@LITTLEDOGMEDIA.COM>]

Thanks for your contributions. What a great list of author memoirs.

26 Fairmount Avenue series (titles include "Here we all are," "What a=20
year," and others)
by Tomie De Paola
First French Kiss: And Other Traumas by Adam Bagdasarian--Despite the=20
racy sounding title, it is NOT... is as tame as Knots in My Yo-Yo=20
String. Adam wrote Forgotten Fire, the National Book Award winner in=20
2000. His father was the creator of "Alvin & the Chipmunks" way back in=20=

the 50's. He moved to a Beverly Hills mansion when his father became=20
famous.

Also:
Oddballs by William Sleator
Sleator is hillarious in this memoir, starting with a story of a family=20=

vacation car trip and a queasy younger brother.
"The Pigman and Me" by Paul Zindel

Me me me me me : not a novel by M.E. Kerr
Looking Back by Lois Lowry.
Girl =46rom Yamhill & My Own Two Feet-Beverly Cleary
Boy & Going Solo-Roald Dahl
King of the Mild Frontier-Chris Crutcher
Bad Boy-Walter Dean
The Lost Garden-Lawrence Yep
Guts & My Life in Dog Years & Woodsong &  Beet Fields- Gary Paulsen
The Year I Got Polio-Peg Kehret
Blood on the Forehead: What I Know About Writing-M.E. Kerr
Abracadabra Kid-Sid Fleischman
Anonymously Yours-Richard Peck
Tomi: A Childhood Under the Nazi-Tomi Ungerer
No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War- Anita Lobel
Knots in My Yo-Yo String-Jerry Spinelli
A Hole in My Life-Jack Gantos
My life in dog years - Gary Paulsen
Guts : the true stories behind Hatchet and the Brian books - Gary=20
Paulsen
The beet fields :=A0 a sixteenth summer - Gary Paulsen
Frenchtown summer - Robert Cormier

Also, one reply included this helpful piece of info: Booklinks had an=20
article about author autobiographies in the May issue. They included:
Under the royal palms: a childhook in Cuby by Alma Flor Ada
Down a sunny dirt road: an autobiography by Jan & Stan Berenstain
The moon and I by Betsy Byars,
Flora and Tiger: 19 very short stories from my life by Eric Carle
Homesick: my own story by Jean Fritz
The world of William Joyce Scrapbook by William Joyce
Five pages a day: a writer's journey by Peg Kehret
Chewing the cud: an extraordinary life remembered...by Dick King-Smith
Looking back: a book of memories by Lois Lowry
How I cam to be a writer by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
The making of a writer by Joan Lowery Nixon
Bill Peet: an autobiography by Bill Peet
Caught by the sea: my life on boats by Gary Paulsen
But I'll be back again: an album by Cynthia Rylant
A writer's story: from life to fiction by Marion Dane Bauer
Me Me Me Me Me: not a novel by M.E. Kerr
No pretty pictures: a child of war by Anita Lobel
Anonymously yours by Richard Peck
The invisible thread by Yoshiko Uchida
The lost garden by Laurence Yep
The pigman and me by Paul Zindel

Thanks a bunch.
Connie



Connie G. Pappas
Teacher-Librarian
Skyridge Middle School
Camas, WA
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