Belated thanks to those who gave me these wonderful suggestions for my
memoir collection.
Mary Kay Risi
Teacher-Librarian
River Dell Middle School
River Edge / Oradell, NJ
201-599-7250 x2290
A Girl from Yamhill: A Memoir (School & Library Binding)
by Beverly Cleary
<http://www.amazon.com/Beverly-Cleary/e/B000AQ44W4/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1
>
A Free Black Girl Before the Civil War: The Diary of Charlotte Forten,
1854 (Diaries, Letters, and Memoirs) (Library Binding)
by Charlotte L. Forten
<http://www.amazon.com/Charlotte-L.-Forten/e/B001HPCGC2/ref=ntt_athr_dp_
pel_1>
Red Scarf Girl (rack): A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution (Paperback)
by Ji-li Jiang
<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_
1?%5Fencoding=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=books&field-author=Ji-li%20Jiang
>
Double Luck: Memoirs of a Chinese Orphan (Hardcover)
by Chi Fa Lu
<http://www.amazon.com/Chi-Fa-Lu/e/B001KI9GDS/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1>
The Boyhood Diary of Theodore Roosevelt, 1869-1870: Early Travels of the
26th U.S. President (Diaries, Letters, and Memoirs) (Library Binding)
by Theodore Roosevelt
<http://www.amazon.com/Theodore-Roosevelt/e/B001HD13LO/ref=ntt_athr_dp_p
el_1> (Author), Shelley Swanson Sateren
<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_
2?%5Fencoding=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=books&field-author=Shelley%20Swa
nson%20Sateren> (Editor)
The Girlhood Diary of Louisa May Alcott, 1843-1846: Writings of a Young
Author (Diaries, Letters, and Memoirs) (Library Binding)
by Louisa May Alcott
<http://www.amazon.com/Louisa-May-Alcott/e/B000APYQLO/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pe
l_1> (Author), Kerry A. Graves
<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_
2?%5Fencoding=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=books&field-author=Kerry%20A.%20
Graves> (Editor)
My Thirteenth Winter: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by Samantha Abeel
<http://www.amazon.com/Samantha-Abeel/e/B001IU2KD6/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1
>
Invisible Thread: A Memoir by Yoshiko Uchida (Library Binding)
by Yoshiko Uchida
<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_
1?%5Fencoding=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=books&field-author=Yoshiko%20Uch
ida>
Don't Tell The Girls: A Family Memoir (Hardcover)
by Patricia Reilly Giff
<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_
1?%5Fencoding=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=books&field-author=Patricia%20Re
illy%20Giff>
When I Was a Boy Neruda Called Me Policarpo: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by Poli Delano
<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_
1?%5Fencoding=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=books&field-author=Poli%20Delano
> (Author), Manuel Monroy
<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_
2?%5Fencoding=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=books&field-author=Manuel%20Monr
oy> (Illustrator), Sean Higgins
<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_
3?%5Fencoding=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=books&field-author=Sean%20Higgin
s> (Translator)
The Dancer Who Flew: A Memoir of Rudolf Nureyev (Hardcover)
by Linda Maybarduk
<http://www.amazon.com/Linda-Maybarduk/e/B001KIUKPQ/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_
1>
Behind the Secret Window: A Memoir of a Hidden Childhood During World
War Two (School & Library Binding)
by Nelly S. Toll
<http://www.amazon.com/Nelly-S.-Toll/e/B001HCWTRW/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1>
Tony Hawk: Professional Skateboarder (Paperback)
by Tony Hawk
<http://www.amazon.com/Tony-Hawk/e/B001H6UCQ8/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1>
(Author), Sean Mortimer
<http://www.amazon.com/Sean-Mortimer/e/B001H6OIJ0/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_2>
(Author)
King of the Mild Frontier: An Ill-Advised Autobiography (Paperback)
by Chris Crutcher
<http://www.amazon.com/Chris-Crutcher/e/B000APB97I/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1
>
A Day No Pigs Would Die (Mass Market Paperback)
by Robert Newton Peck
<http://www.amazon.com/Robert-Newton-Peck/e/B000AP6YVE/ref=ntt_athr_dp_p
el_1>
Weeds in Bloom: Autobiography of an Ordinary Man (Library Binding)
by Robert Newton Peck
<http://www.amazon.com/Robert-Newton-Peck/e/B000AP6YVE/ref=ntt_athr_dp_p
el_1>
To the Stars: The Autobiography of George Takei, Star Trek's Mr. Sulu
(Paperback)
by George Takei
<http://www.amazon.com/George-Takei/e/B001KE4BZK/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1>
Hole in my life by Jack Gantos
Anonymously yours by Richard Peck
A day of pleasure : stories of a boy growing up in Warsaw by Isaac
Singer
The Lost Garden by Laurence Yep
The Pigman and Me by Paul Zindel
It's not about the bike by Lance Armstrong
Both feet on the ground by Beckham
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080625134514AA74PPs
<http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080625134514AA74PPs>
"West with the Night," Beryl Markham; Hemingway's favorite non-fiction
book. Her account of growing up the only white child on a Kenya
plantation, then the only woman accepted into the Masai warriors'
society, then an aviation pioneer.
"Expecting Adam," Martha Beck, Ph.D. Her warm, funny account of
pregnancy while in Harvard grad school studying feminist sociology.
"Autobiography of a Yogi," Paramahansa Yogananda. Classic.
However, due to your teacher's structuring of the assignment, here's an
autobiography: "My Experiments with Truth," Mahatma Gandhi, and a
biography: "Gandhi, the Man: The Story of His Transformation," Dr.
Eknath Easwaran, http://www.easwaran.org <http://www.easwaran.org/> (A
professor of English literature at U. C. Berkeley, knew how to write
well.)
Extra reading which is helpful: "Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei,"
Weinberger and Paz, is very simple, very informing about how poetry is
written.
"Going beyond the Pairs," Dennis McCort, Ph.D., is great lit crit, as
are Dr. Martin Ling's "Shakespeare in the Light of Sacred Art" and O. M.
Aivanhov's "Creation: Artistic and Spiritual."
erm sylvia plath - the bell jar, or susanna kaysen- girl interrupted.
Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston
No Pretty Pictures: a child of war by Anita Lobel (the book is a
National Book Award finalist)
Behind the Secret Window: a memoir of a hidden childhood during WWII by
Nelly S. Toll
Of Beetles and Angels: a boy's remarkable journey from a refugee camp to
Harvard by Mawi Asgedom
Bad Boy - Walter Dean Myers
Hole in my life - Jack Gantos
Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo
When I was Puerto Rican - Esmeralda Santiago
Three Little Words - Rhodes-Courter
PT109 - Donovan with JF Kennedy
Ishi, Last of his tribe - Kroeber
My Thirteenth winter - Abeel
Catch Me if You Can - Abagnale
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