Here is the requested hit on autobiographies for middle school:
Bad Boy by Walter Dean Myers
Thura's Diary: My life in Wartime Iraq by Thura Al-Windawi
Knots in My Yo-Yo String by Jerry Spinelli
A Hole in My Life by Jack Gantos
Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Aron Ralston
Up and Running: The Jami Goldman Story
The Upstairs Room by Johanna Reiss
I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing up in the Holocaust
Soul Surfer by Bethany Hamilton
Hawk: Occcupation: Skateboarder by Tony Hawk
Woodsong by Gary Paulsen
My Life in Dog Years by Gary Paulsen
Red Scarf Girl by Ji-Li Jiang
Rosa Parks: My Story
I am Fifteen and I Don't Want to Die
The Beautiful Days of My Youth by Ana Novac
Zlata's Diary
But I'll be Back Again by Cynthia Rylant
Ruby Bridges, Through My Eyes
Savion: My Life in Tap by Savion Glover
Rocket Boys: a memoir by Homer Hickam
Chinese Cinderella: the true story of an unwanted daughter by Adeline Mah
Guts: the true stories behind Hatchet and the Brian books by Gary Paulsen
Basher five-two: the true story of F-16 fighter pilot Captain Scott O'Grady
by Scott O'Grady
Born to Fly: the heroic story of downed U.S. navy pilot Lt. Shane Osborn
Four Perfect Pebbles: a Holocaust story by Lila Perl
Facing the Lion: growing up Maasai on the African Savanna by Joseph Lekuton
Farewell to Manzanar: the true story of Japanese American experience during
and after the World War II internment by Jeanne Houston
Within Reach: my Everest story by Mark Pfetzer
Taking Hold: My Journey Into Blindness by Sally Hobart Alexander
Sharyn L. Mudd
Library Media Specialist
Veronica Connor Middle School
Grand Island, NY 14072
(716) 773-8832
sharynmudd@k12.ginet.org
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