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Real People, Real Stories:

A sampling of autobiographies for kids


Alone Across the Arctic: One woman's epic journey by dog team
Pam Flowers

Author: A true story
Helen Lester

Betty Doll
Patricia Polacco

The Boy Who Loved to Draw: Benjamin West
Benjamin West

The Boyhood Diary of Charles Lindbergh, 1913-1916:
Early adventures of the famous aviator

Charles Lindbergh

Changemaker
W. Harry Davis

Chewing the Cud: An extraordinary life remembered by the author of Babe, the gallant pig
Dick King-Smith

A Civil War Drummer Boy: The diary of William Bircher, 1861-1865
William Bircher

A Colonial Quaker Girl: The diary of Sally Wister, 1777-1778
Sarah Wister

A Covered Wagon Girl: The diary of Sallie Hester, 1849-1850
Sallie Hester

Cowgirl Dreams: A western childhood
Jennifer Dewey

Double Luck: Memoirs of a Chinese orphan
Chi Fa Lu

Down a Sunny Dirt Road: An autobiography
Stan Berenstain

The endless steppe : Growing up in Siberi
Esther Rudomin Hautzig

Find Where the Wind Goes: Moments from my life
Mae Jemison

A Free Black Girl Before the Civil War: The diary of Charlotte Forten, 1854
Charlotte L. Forten

The Girlhood Diary of Louisa May Alcott, 1843-1846:
Writings of a young author

Louisa May Alcott

Jesse Ventura Tells it Like it Is: America's most outspoken governor speaks out about government
Jesse Ventura

King of the Mild Frontier: An ill-advised autobiography
Chris Crutcher

The Land I Lost: Adventures of a boy in Vietnam
Quang Nhuong Huynh

Leon's Story
Leon Walter Tillage

Lindbergh Looks Back: A boyhood reminiscence
Charles A. Lindbergh

The Lost Garden
Laurence Yep

The Making of a Writer
Joan Lowery Nixon

My Hiroshima
Junko Morimoto

Narrative of My Captivity Among the Sioux Indians
Fanny Kelly

A Nineteenth-Century Schoolgirl: The diary of Caroline Cowles Richards, 1852-1855
Caroline Cowles Richards

No Pretty Pictures: A child of war
Anita Lobel

Of Beetles and Angels: A true story of the American dream
Mawi Asgedow

On the Way Home: The diary of a trip from South Dakota to Mansfield, Missouri, in 1894
Laura Ingalls Wilder

Patrick DesJarlait: Conversations with a Native American artist
Patrick DesJarlait

The Pigman & Me
Paul Zindel

Pioneer Girl
Maryanne Caswell

Puppies, Dogs, and Blue Northers: Reflections on being raised by a pack of sled dogs
Gary Paulsen

Shaman's Nephew: A life in the far north
Sheldon Oberman

Taking Hold: My journey into blindness
Sally Hobart Alexander

Things Will Never be the Same
Tomie De Paola

This Land is My Land
George Littlechild

Those Who Love the Game: Glenn "Doc" Rivers on life in the NBA and elsewhere
Glen Rivers

Thunder & Mud: A pioneer childhood on the prairie
Julia Brown Tobias

A Whaling Captain's Daughter: The diary of Laura Jernegan, 1868-1871
Laura Jernegan

What A Year!
Tomie De Paola

When Everybody Wore a Hat
William Steig

Within Reach: My Everest story
Mark Pfetzer

A Young Dancer's Apprenticeship: On tour with the Moscow City Ballet
Olympia Dowd

 

 


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