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Young Lives: Teen Biography
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Armstrong, Lance. It's not about the bike: my journey back to life. The unbelievable story of Lance Armstrong’s battle against cancer and his first six victories in the Tour do France. B ARMSTRONG LANCE ARM |
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Beah, Ishmael. A long way gone: memoirs of a boy soldier. At 12, Ishmael fled attacking rebels and wandered a land of violence. By thirteen, he'd been picked up by the Sierra Leone army, and a gentle boy found he was capable of terror. 966.404 BEA |
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Bragg, Rick. All over but the shoutin'. Bragg grew up dirt poor in Alabama, and became a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for "The New York Times". B BRAGG RICK BRA |
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Breashears, David. High exposure : an enduring passion for Everest and unforgiving places. Breashears's honesty in his personal reflections is balanced by exciting stories of rock climbing at the roof of the world. 796.522 BRE |
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Conroy, Pat. My losing season. We see the young Conroy walk from his life as an athlete to the "Great Santini", the writer the world knows him to be. 796.323 CON |
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Dominick, Andie. Needles. A memoir of two sisters growing up, and dying with diabetes. 362.1989 DOM |
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D'Orso, Michael. Eagle blue : a team, a tribe, and a high school basketball season in Arctic Alaska. The author sees the lives of each of the players, from their family dinners to their relationship to their devoted coach. 796.323 DOR |
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Eggers, Dave. A heartbreaking work of staggering genius. At 22, Eggers became an orphan and a “single mother” when his parents died and he became guardian of his younger brother. B EGGERS DAVE EGG |
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Freedman, Russell. Martha Graham, a dancer's life. A photo-biography of the American dancer, who was born in Pittsburgh in 1894 and became an icon in the world of modern dance. JB GRAHAM MARTHA FRE |
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Gantos, Jack. Hole in my life. Serving time for running drugs gave Gantos determination to make something of himself and focused his love of writing. B GANTOS JACK GAN |
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Gottleib, Lori. Stick figure: diary of my former self. Lori Gottlieb's diary, begun when she was eleven years old, chronicles her battle with anorexia. 616.85262 GOT |
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Greenberg, Jan. Andy Warhol: prince of pop. Did anyone really know Andy Warhol? Get a glimpse of this artist from his childhood to pop-culture and the party scene. B WARHOL ANDY GRE |
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Gregory, Julie. Sickened: the memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy childhood. Not until her twenties did Julie understand that all the doctor visits and tests weren't because she was sick, but because her mother had a psychological disorder. 616.85822 GRE |
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Hornbacher, Marya. Wasted: a memoir of anorexia and bulimia. Hornbacher describes her lifelong problems with bulimia and anorexia and critiques our obsession with food and body images. 616.8526 HOR |
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Jiang, Ji-li. Red Scarf Girl: memoir of the Cultural Revolution. Ji-Li's life begins to unravel during the Cultural Revolution when her family wants her to turn down a chance to be trained by the Chinese government as a gymnast. J951.05 JIA |
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McBride, James. The color of water: a black man’s tribute to his white mother. McBride describes growing up in an all-black Brooklyn housing project one of twelve children of a white mother and black father. 920 MCB |
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Myers, Walter Dean. Bad boy: a memoir. In his Harlem neighborhood Myers secretly satisfied his love for reading and writing. Years later, Myers remembered advice to never give up on his writing no matter what. B MYERS WALTER MYE |
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Paulsen, Gary. Guts: the true stories behind Hatchet and the Brain books. Drawing from reality and his own experiences, Guts reveals the true stories behind the Hatchet books as Paulsen lived them. YA B PAULSEN GARY PAU |
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Pfetzer, Mark. Within reach: my Everest story. Imagine trying to climb Mt. Everest at the age of 16 just four years after beginning an obsession with mountaineering. 796.522 PFE |
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Polly, Matthew. American Shaolin : flying kicks, Buddhist monks, and the legend of iron crotch : an odyssey in the new China. Laced with humor and insight, this coming-of-age tale explores one young American's quest to become a kung fu master at China's legendary Shaolin Temple. 796.8155 POL |
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Thompson, Craig. Blankets. Drawing and his brother’s friendship keep Craig sane during an often lonely childhood filled with strict parents. GN THOMPSON |
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Walls, Jeannette. The glass castle: a memoir. Walls had the guts and tenacity and intelligence to get away from creative and alcoholic parents. 362.82 WAL |
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Wyckoff, Edwin Brit. The teen who invented television: Philo T. Farnsworth. A fifteen-year-old farmer's son dreamed of using electrons carried by radio waves to create the first electronic television and went on to develop over 100 other patents. JB FARNSWORTH PHILO WYC |
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Zailckas, Koren. Smashed: story of a drunken girlhood. Koren's drinking began in junior high and it took many alcohol-fueled mistakes to realize her drinking had gone too far. 616.861 ZAI |
Last updated November 22nd, 2011
