Biographies for Teens

Biographies for Teens Ghosts of War: The True Story of a 19-Year-Old GI by Ryan Smithson Published 2009 by Collins Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780061664687 Find this book in our catalog. Jacket Notes: In a harrowing memoir about combat, friendship, fear, and a soldier's commitment to his country, Smithson brings teen readers inside a world that few understand, as he describes his experience as a 19-year-old Army engineer in Iraq. Ryan Smithson joined the Army Reserve when he was seventeen.... More... First Comes Love, Then Comes Malaria: How a Peace Corps Poster Boy Won My Heart and a Third-World Adventure Changed My Life by Eve Brown-Waite Published 2009 by Broadway Books Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780767929356 Find this book in our catalog. Jacket Notes: In this laugh-out-loud funny memoir, a pampered city girl falls head over little black heels in love with a Peace Corps poster boy and follows him--literally-to the ends of the earth and finds love and purpose in the last place she expected. In this laugh-out-loud funny memoir, a pampered city girl falls head over little black heels in love with a Peace Corps poster boy and follows him --literally-to the ends of the earth.... More... Model: A Memoir; Pretty Girl. Ugly Business. by Cheryl Diamond Published 2008 by Simon Pulse Paperback, English. ISBN: 9781416959045 Find this book in our catalog. Jacket Notes: Told in Cheryl Diamond's own words, this is a riveting, true account of one girl's triumphant rise, disastrous fall, and phoenix-like comeback in one of the hottest and most demanding industries in the world.Simon Pulse Every year, hundreds of the most beautiful people in the world come to New York to become models.... More... Three Little Words: A Memoir by Ashley Rhodes-Courter Published 2008 by Atheneum Books Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9781416948063 Find this book in our catalog. Jacket Notes: Rhodes-Courter spent nine years of her life in 14 different foster homes. In this unforgettable memoir, the author recounts her years growing up in the foster care system, revealing painful memories but also her determination to discover the power of her own voice.... More... I Am Scout: The Biography of Harper Lee by Charles J Shields Published 2008 by Henry Holt & Company Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780805083347 Find this book in our catalog. Jacket Notes: "To Kill a Mockingbird "is one of the most widely read novels in American literature. It's also a perennial favorite in highschool English classrooms across the nation. Yet onetime author Harper Lee is a mysterious figure who leads a very private life in her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama, refusing to give interviews or talk about the novel that made her a household name.... More... Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines by Nic Sheff Published 2008 by Ginee Seo Books Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9781416913627 Find this book in our catalog. Jacket Notes: Nic Sheff was drunk for the first time at age eleven. In the years that followed, he would regularly smoke pot, do cocaine and Ecstasy, and develop addictions to crystal meth and heroin. Even so, he felt like he would always be able to quit and put his life together whenever he needed to.... More... Major: A Black Athlete, a White Era, and the Fight to Be the World's Fastest Human Being by Todd Balf Published 2008 by Crown Publishing Group (NY) Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780307236586 Find this book in our catalog. Jacket Notes: Balf brings to life the fascinating story of cyclist Major Taylor, America's first African-American sports mega-celebrity and his quest to beat out his white, racist rival for the title of the Fastest Man in the World at the turn of the century. At the turn of the 20th century, hundreds of handsome, lightning-fast racers won the hearts and minds of a bicycling-crazed public.... More... A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah Published 2007 by Farrar Straus Giroux Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780374105235 Find this book in our catalog. Jacket Notes: This absorbing account by a young man who, as a boy of 12, gets swept up in Sierra Leone's civil war, goes beyond even the best journalistic efforts in revealing the life and mind of a child abducted into the horrors of warfare. ""My new friends have begun to suspect I haven't told them the full story of my life.... More... Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant by Daniel Tammet Published 2007 by Free Press Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9781416535072 Find this book in our catalog. Jacket Notes: One of the worlds only 50 living autistic savants is the first to tell his compelling and inspiring life story, and explain how his incredible mind works. While Tammets brain has amazed scientists for years, readers will be moved by this remarkable mans story.... More... Alan Turing by Jim Corrigan Published 2007 by Morgan Reynolds Publishing Library Binding, English. ISBN: 9781599350646 Find this book in our catalog. Jacket Notes: More... Dr. Dre: The Biography by Ronin Ro Published 2007 by Thunder's Mouth Press Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9781560259213 Find this book in our catalog. Jacket Notes: In this essential addition to any music section, award-winning author Ronin Ro details the rise, fall, and resurrection of one of the biggest names in rap music. Born on February 18, 1965 to a sixteen-year-old single mom, Andre Young, AKA Dr. Dre, co-founded the notorious rap group N.... More... Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood by Ibtisam Barakat Published 2007 by Farrar Straus Giroux Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780374357337 Find this book in our catalog. Jacket Notes: Winner, Arab American National Museum Book Award for Children's/YA Literature, among other awards and honors."" ""When a war ends it does not go away," my mother says."It hides inside us . . . Just forget!"" " But I do not want to do what Mother says .... More... Happy Birthday or Whatever: Track Suits, Kim Chee, and Other Family Disasters by Annie Choi Published 2007 by Harper Paperbacks Paperback, English. ISBN: 9780061132223 Find this book in our catalog. Jacket Notes: Meet Annie Choi. She fears cable cars and refuses to eat anything that casts a shadow. Her brother thinks chicken is a vegetable. Her father occasionally starts fires at work. Her mother collects Jesus trading cards and wears plaid like it's a job.... More... No End in Sight: My Life as a Blind Iditarod Racer (Revised and Updated) by Rachael Scdoris Published 2006 by St. Martin's Press Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780312352738 Find this book in our catalog. Jacket Notes: The inspirational first person story of a young dog sled racer who had to overcome incredible odds to compete: she is legally blindFor more than eleven years, twenty-one-year-old Rachael Scdoris has been guiding teams of sled dogs across jagged mountain ranges, frozen rivers, dense forests, and desolate tundra at speeds exceeding twenty mph.... More... Jimi Hendrix: Kiss the Sky by Edward Willett Published 2006 by Enslow Publishers Library Binding, English. ISBN: 9780766024496 Find this book in our catalog. Jacket Notes: - Biographies of famous American rebels, from movie stars to writers and musicians - Dramatic, highly readable stories of controversial lives - Examines how each rebel's work spoke to the social problems of his time - Tracks the lasting impact of each subject's work on American culture - Supports the History/Social Studies, Language Arts, and Cultural Studies curricula More... Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah Published 1999 by Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780385327077 Find this book in our catalog. Jacket Notes: This powerful memoir about a girl growing up in a wealthy but dysfunctional Chinese family during the 1940s evokes the classic fairy tale, "Cinderella." More... Che Guevara: In Search of Revolution by Calvin Craig Miller Published 2006 by Morgan Reynolds Publishing Library Binding, English. ISBN: 9781931798938 Find this book in our catalog. Jacket Notes: More... Up Close: Rachel Carson by Ellen Levine Published 2007 by Viking Children's Books Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780670062201 Find this book in our catalog. Jacket Notes: Rachel Carson combined her love of science and writing in her awardwinning and controversial book, "Silent Spring." Revealing the dangers of pesticide use, it brought readers a new awareness of manas contamination of the environment and ultimately led to the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency. More... Robert F. Kennedy by Mark Aronson Published 2007 by Viking Children's Books Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780670060665 Find this book in our catalog. Jacket Notes: Before his short life was ended by assassination, Robert Kennedy was Attorney General of the United States, Senator from New York, and a charismatic Presidential candidate. But even more astonishing was Kennedyas personal odyssey. Born into immense wealth and privilege, Kennedy came to embrace the cause of the poor and the disenfranchised, and to be seen by them as their champion. More... William Blake: The Gates of Paradise by Michael Bedard Published 2006 by Tundra Books (NY) Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780887767630 Find this book in our catalog. Jacket Notes: Journey back to the 1700s to meet one of the most fascinating people in history. Dreamer, craftsman, poet, madman, and genius -- William Blake. Born in 1757 in London, as a boy he apprenticed as an engraver and began a career that would include masterpieces of art.... More...