The author, who was imprisoned in Auschwitz as a teenager, describes her terrible experiences as one of the camp’s few adolescent inmates and the miraculous twists of fates that enabled her to survive.
Biography – Autobiography- Memoir
The Story Of My Life: An Afghan Girl On The Other Side Of The Sky
Ahmedi was born just as the war between the mujahideen and the Soviets reaches its peak in Afghanistan. When she steps on a land mine, her world becomes much smaller than the dreams and hopes in her heart. With Tamim Ansary.
Frida Kahlo: The Artist Who Painted Herself
Biography of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, written as a child’s school report.
Anne Frank: Young Diarist
Documents the life of Anne Frank, including her childhood, time in hiding, and the time she spent in a Nazi concentration camp, before her death and the release of her diary which became world famous.
Hayley Wickenheiser : Born To Play
Olympic gold medalist Hayley Wickenheiser was born to play hockey. Her rise to hockey fame, in a sport many told her was not for girls, is recounted here.
Who Was King Tut?
Explains the life and times of King Tutankhamen, an ancient Egyptian ruler, covering the story of his tomb’s discovery by Howard Carter in 1922 as well as myths and so-called mummy curses.
The Endless Steppe: Growing Up In Siberia
During World War II, when she was eleven years old, the author and her family were arrested in Poland by the Russians as political enemies and exiled to Siberia. She recounts here the trials of the next five years spent on the harsh Asian steppe.
No Words To Say Goodbye
Forced to leave her native Soviet Union because of anti-Semitism, a young girl journeys to the United States where she records her experiences in a journal, as she adjusts to a new way of life. Also written by Kelli Pryor.
Anne Frank: A Hidden Life
Describes the background in which Anne Frank’s life and diary were set as she hid in an attic in Nazi-occupied Holland for two years.
Han Wu Di And Ancient China
This book tells of Han Wu Di, an influential ruler of ancient China for 54 years, and also covers religious beliefs, clothing and adornment, and inventions and the arts of the time period.