A few suggestions:
Homesick: My Own Story by Jean Fritz
A Pioneer Woman's Memoir: Based on the Journal of Arabella Clemens Fulton by Judith
E. Greenberg and Helen Carey McKeever
Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolutin by Ji-Li Jiang
Warriors Don't Cry: a Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's
Central High by Melba Pattillo Beals
"A book is like a little room you can carry around with you, and anytime you need
to, you can slip in there and get away from it all."--Diane Stanley, The Mysterious
Matter of I.M. Fine
Currently reading The Dark Pond by Joseph Bruchac
Basya Karp, Librarian
Shulamith High School and Shulamith School For Girls
Brooklyn, New York
basyak10@hotmail.com
> Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:57:37 -0400
> From: Mary.Risi@RIVERDELL.ORG
> Subject: 8th grade memoir unit
> To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
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> All 8th graders in my building start the year with a memoir unit - all
> 290 of them! I'm trying desperately to build a collection big enough. I
> would love the wisdom of this wise crowd in memoir titles for this age
> group. Thank you all in advance. I will post a HIT.
>
>
>
> Happy summer to all,
>
>
>
> Mary Kay Risi
>
> Teacher-Librarian
>
> River Dell Middle School
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> River Edge / Oradell, NJ
>
> 201-599-7250 ext. 2315
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>
>
> "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too
> dark to read. <http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/713.html> "
> Groucho Marx
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