Catalog Search Results
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Formats
Description
A searing, deeply moving memoir about family, love, and loss from the critically acclaimed, bestselling National Book Award winner. When his mother passed away at the age of 78, Sherman Alexie responded the only way he knew how: he wrote. The result is this stunning memoir. Featuring 78 poems, 78 essays and intimate family photographs, Alexie shares raw, angry, funny, profane, tender memories of a childhood few can imagine--growing up dirt-poor on...
45) Black boy
Author
Appears on list
Formats
Description
An autobirography of Richard Wright's journey from innocence to experience in the Him Crow South.
Author
Series
Nest for Celeste volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Celeste, a mouse longing for a real home, becomes a source of inspiration to teenaged Joseph, assistant to the artist and naturalist John James Audubon, at a New Orleans, Louisiana, plantation in 1821.
Author
Series
Young royals volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Mary Tudor, who would reign briefly as Queen of England during the mid sixteenth century, tells the story of her troubled childhood as daughter of King Henry VIII.
Author
Description
"Amos Oz takes us on a journey through his childhood and adolescence, a quixotic child's-eye view along Jerusalem's wartorn streets in the 1940s and '50s, and into the infernal marriage of two kind, well-meaning people: his fussy, logical father, and his dreamy, romantic mother. Caught between them is one small boy with the weight of generations on his shoulders. And at the tragic heart of the story is the suicide of his mother, when Amos was twelve-and-a-half...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"Why would a mother ever abandon her child? And is an abandoned child destined to grow up and make the same mistake? These were some of Melissa Cistaro's questions after her mother drove off without explanation one summer. Decades later Melissa finds herself at her dying mother's bedside with 6 days to find answers, fearful that she could do the same to her own little girl. Then she discovers a cache of letters her mother wrote but never sent and...
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Description
The author provides an account of her life growing up in Berchtesgaden, a Bavarian village at the foot of Hitler's mountain retreat, discussing a childhood encounter with the Nazi leader, and shedding light on why ordinary Germans, including her parents, tolerated and even supported the Nazis.
57) Kickoff!
Author
Series
Barber twins volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Twelve-year-old twin brothers Tiki and Ronde are ready to leave Peewee League to play football for their junior high school team, but the competition for starting positions is tough and they face the possibility of spending a year on the bench.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
Description
"Growing up on his family's farm in New York, Almanzo Wilder wishes for just one thing -- his very own horse. But Father doesn't yet trust him with such a big responsibility. Almanzo needs to prove himself -- but how?"--P. [4] of cover.
Author
Formats
Description
In this sequel to Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, the author returns to Africa and the story of her unforgettable family. In this book she braids a multilayered narrative around the perfectly lit, Happy Valley era Africa of her mother's childhood; the boiled cabbage grimness of her father's English childhood; and the darker, civil war torn Africa of her own childhood. At its heart, this is the story of Fuller's mother, Nicola. Born on the Scottish...
.png)