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Genre: Biography
Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution
When China’s Communist Party detained Ji-li’s father, the 12-year-old was faced with the most difficult choice of her life. She could denounce her father and break with her family, or she could refuse to testify and sacrifice her future in her beloved Communist Party.
Zlata’s Diary: A Child’s Life In Sarajevo
When Zlata’s Diary was first published at the height of the Bosnian conflict, it became an international bestseller and was compared to The Diary of Anne Frank, both for the freshness of its voice and the grimness of the world it describes. It begins as the day-today record of the life of a typical eleven-year-old [...]
Other Descriptors: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Young Adult (Gr. 9-12) Themes: Courage, Death, food, War Leave a comment
Lang Lang: Playing with Flying Keys
HE STARTED LEARNING to play the piano when he was three years old in Shenyang, China. Today he is one of the world’s most outstanding pianists. In this engrossing life story, adapted by Michael French, Lang Lang not only recounts the difficult, often thrilling, events of his early days, but also shares his perspective on [...]
Other Descriptors: China, Intermediate (Gr. 4-8) Themes: Childhood, fame, father and son, Music, musician, pianist Leave a comment
Wildly Romantic: The English Romantic Poets: The Mad, the Bad, and the Dangerous
Meet the rebellious young poets who brought about a literary revolution. Rock stars may think they invented sex, drugs, and rock and roll, but the Romantic poets truly created the mold. In the early 1800s, poetry could land a person in jail. Those who tried to change the world through their poems risked notoriety—or courted [...]
Other Descriptors: England (UK), Young Adult (Gr. 9-12) Themes: 19th century, poet, romanticism Leave a comment
Roberto Clemente: Pride of the Pittsburgh Pirates
On an island called Puerto Rico a boy named Roberto Clemente dreamed of nothing but winning at baseball. With no money–but plenty of determination–Clemente practiced on muddy fields with a glove made from a coffee sack. Little League became minor league, which turned into winter league and, finally, he made it to the major leagues! [...]
Other Descriptors: Caribbean, Picture Book, Primary (Gr. K-3), Puerto Rico Themes: Baseball, Determination, Pittsburgh Pirates, player Leave a comment
Silent Observer
“I was born, like my seven brothers and sisters, in a house atop a hill overlooking lovely Bras d’Or Lake”. So begins Christy MacKinnon’s story of life as a little girl in 19th-century Nova Scotia, Canada. Through wonderful images created with her own words and her watercolors, she tells of a simple, charming life on [...]
Other Descriptors: Canada, Intermediate (Gr. 4-8), Picture Book Themes: Brother and sister, deaf, Family, Farm life, loss of mother, memoir Leave a comment
Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai
Wangari Maathai, winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize and founder of the Green Belt Movement, grew up in the highlands of Kenya, where fig trees cloaked the hills, fish filled the streams, and the people tended their bountiful gardens. But over many years, as more and more land was cleared, Kenya was transformed. When [...]
Other Descriptors: Kenya, Picture Book, Primary (Gr. K-3) Themes: Environment, Green Belt Movement, tree, tree planter, woman conservationist, woman plotician Leave a comment
Secret World of Hildegard
Hildegard von Bingen composed hymns and symphonies, painted glorious pictures, compiled books on medicine, and wrote religious revelations of such ethereal beauty that they inspired the respect of Popes and kings–all in the Dark Ages when most people were illiterate and women were disdained. Now Jonah Winter teams up once again with his mother, [...]
Other Descriptors: Germany, Primary (Gr. K-3) Themes: composer, Courage, Middle Ages, scientist, Secret, woman Leave a comment
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Children have become soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them.What is war like through the eyes of [...]
Other Descriptors: Sierra Leone, Young Adult (Gr. 9-12) Themes: child soldier, civil war, Conflict, social condition, Survival, violence, War 1 Comment
Nelson Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom