Memoir/Biography Assignment Part 1

You must choose a book from the list provided in this post. You need to get your own book and bring it to class on Friday. 

If you have absolutely no way to get a book from the library, a store, a friend, or a family member, then you must notify me in writing or email by Wednesday. I will need a full explanation as to why you could not get a book. 

If you want to read a different memoir or biograph, then you must submit a written or email request for approval. 

  

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, 

by Sherman Alexie and Ellen Forney

No Crystal Stair: A Documentary Novel of the Life and Work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem Bookseller

by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson and R. Gregory Christie

Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty

by G. Neri and Randy DuBurke

Enrique's Journey: The True Story of a Boy Determined to Reunite with His Mother

by Sonia Nazario

Circuit, The: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child

by Francisco Jiménez

Bad Boy: A Memoir by Walter Dean Myers

War Child: A Child Soldier's Story by Emmanuel Jal

When I Was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago

Breaking Through by Francisco Jiménez

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

Under the Royal Palms: A Childhood in Cuba by Alma Flor Ada

Family Romanov, The: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia by Candace Fleming

I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World by Malala Yousafzai and Patricia McCormick

Black Boy

by Richard Wright

King of the Mild Frontier: An Ill-Advised Autobiography

by Chris Crutcher

Restless Spirit: The Life and Work of Dorothea Lange
by Elizabeth Partridge

Laughing at My Nightmare
by Shane Burcaw

Fort of Nine Towers, A: An Afghan Family Story
by Qais Akbar Omar

The Glass Castle: A Memoir

by Jeannette Walls

House of Houses by Pat Mora

Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter

by Adeline Yen Mah

Devil in the Details: Scenes from an Obsessive Girlhood

by Jennifer Traig

Pact, The: Three Young Men Make a Promise and Fulfill a Dream

by Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, Rameck Hunt, and Lisa Frazier Page

Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez 

by Richard Rodriguez

Three Little Words: A Memoir

by Ashley Rhodes-Courter

Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West by Blaine Harden

Angela's Ashes: A Memoir

by Frank McCourt

Go Ask Alice

by Anonymous

Year We Disappeared, The: A Father-Daughter Memoir

by Cylin Busby and John Busby

Sugar Falls: A Residential School Story

by David Alexander Robertson and Scott B. Henderson

Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, The: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League

by Jeff Hobbs

Walk to Beautiful: The Power of Love and a Homeless Kid Who Found the Way

by Jimmy Wayne and Ken Abraham

A Place to Stand by Jimmy Santiago Baca 

Eyes Right: Confessions from a Woman Marine by Tracy Crow

Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood

by Julie Gregory and Marc D. Feldmann

I'm Down by Mishna Wolff

Sorrow's Kitchen: The Life and Folklore of Zora Neale Hurston

by Mary E. Lyons

Bronte Sisters, The: The Brief Lives of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne by Catherine Reef

Grace, Gold, & Glory: My Leap of Faith by Michelle Burford and Gabrielle Douglas

Hidden Girl: The True Story of a Modern-Day Child Slave

by Shyima Hall and Lisa Wysocky

Hideous Love: The Story of the Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein

by Stephanie Hemphill

Some Assembly Required: The Not-So-Secret Life of a Transgender Teen

by Arin Andrews

Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons: The Story of Phillis Wheatley

by Ann Rinaldi

Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A. by Luis J. Rodriguez