Autobiographies for Teens
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compiled by Dawn Rutherford (drutherf@kcls.org), November 1999
from contributions from YALSA-BK

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Alicea, Gil C.                  The Air Down Here
Angelou, Maya                   I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Beals, Melba Patillo            Warriors Don't Cry
Bragg, Rick                     All Over but the Shoutin'
Buck, Rinker                    Flight of Passage
Cary, Lorene                    Black Ice
Chan, Jackie                    I Am Jackie Chan: My Life In Action
Cleary, Beverly                 A Girl From Yamhill
Conway, Jill Ker                The Road From Coorain
Cunningham, Laura               Sleeping Arrangements
Dinesen, Isak                   Out of Africa
Dominick, Andie                 Needles
Eldon, Dan                      The Journey is the Destination
Foley, Mick                     Have a Nice Day
Garner, Eleanor                 Eleanor's Story
Gates, Henry Louis Jr.          Colored People
Grealy, Lucy                    Autobiography of a Face
Gregory, Dick                   Nigger: an Autobiography
Hailey, Kendall                 The Day I Became an Autodidact
Heywood, Leslie                 Pretty Good for a Girl
Hickam, Homer                   Rocket Boys
Hockenberry, John               Moving Violations
Jiang, Ji Li.                   Red Scarf Girl
Kaysen, Susanna                 Girl, Interrupted
Kehret, Peg                     Small Steps: the Year I Got Polio
Kercheval, Jesse                Space: A Memoir
Kerr, M.E.                      Me, Me, Me, Me, Me: Not a Novel
Kusz, Natalie                   Road Song
Lewin, Ted.                     I Was a Teenage Professional Wrestler
Lobel, Anita                    No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War
Lowry, Lois                     Looking Back
Lynden, Jacki                   Daughter of the Queen of Sheba
Mathabane, Mark                 Kaffir Boy
McCourt, Frank                  Angela's Ashes
Mori, Kyoko                     Dream of Water
Novac, Ana                      Beautiful Days of My Youth
O'Brien, Tim                    If I Die in a Combat Zone
Opdyke, Irene Gut               In My Hands
Paulsen, Gary                   My Life in Dog's Years
Peck, Richard                   Anonymously Yours
Salzman, Mark                   Lost in Place:
Santiago, Esmeralda             Almost a Woman
Scholinski, Daphne              Last Time I Wore a Dress
Sleator, William                Oddballs
Spinelli, Jerry                 Knots in My Yo-Yo String
Tate, Sonsyrea                  Little X
Taulbert, Clifton L.            Last Train North
Taulbert, Clifton L.            When We Were Colored
Thornton, Yvonne S.             Ditchdigger's Daughers
White, Ryan                     Ryan White: My Own Story
Wolff, Tobias                   This Boy's Life
Yen Mah, Adeline                Falling Leaves
Yep, Laurence                   The Lost Garden
Zindle, Paul                    The Pigman and Me