Autobiographies for YAs ----------------------- compiled by Mindy Schafer (mschafer@tln.lib.mi.us) posted to YALSA-BK, October 2000 The Searching Spirit Joy Adamson Giant Steps Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Taking Hold: My Journey Into Blindness Sally Hobart Alexander All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes Maya Angelou A Writer's Story Marion Dane Bauer A Girl from Yamhill Beverly Cleary Boy: Tales of Childhood & Going Solo Roald Dahl Joni and Choices, Changes Joni Eareckson Zlata's Diary Zlata Filipovic Abracadabra Kid Sid Fleischman Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank Eleanor's Story: an American Girl in Hitler's Germany Eleanor Ramrath Garner Go for the Goal Mia Hamm On and Off the Ice Dorothy Hammill Out of the Blue Oral Herschiser I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up in the Holocaust Livia Bitton-Jackson Red Scarf Girl: a Memoir of the Cultural Revolution Ji-li Jiang Me, Me, Me M.E. Kerr Four Perfect Pebbles: a Holocaust Story Marion Blumenthal Lazan Between Worlds Leo Lionni Little by Little: a Writer's Education Jean Little No Pretty Pictures: a Child of War Anita Lobel Chinese Cinderella: the True Story of an Unwanted Daughter Adeline Yen Mah Part of My Soul Went With Him Winnie Mandela Starting from Home Milton Meltzer Under the Eye of the Clock Christopher Nolan In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer Irene Gut Opdyke Flicka's Friend Mary O'Hara Rosa Parks: My Story Rosa Parks Woodsong Gary Paulsen King of the Road Richard Petty Freedom's Child Walter Polovchak Cal Ripkin, Jr.: My Story Cal Ripkin, Jr. The Cage & To Life Ruth Minsky Sender On the Home Front: Growing Up in Wartime England Ann Stalcup LT: Living on the Edge Lawrence Taylor