Biography & Autobiography - Cultural, Ethnic & Regional
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Senderos Fronterizos: Breaking Through (Spanish Edition)
$9.99 Add to cartSin amargura ni sentimentalismo, Francisco Jim?nez termina de contar la historia de su juventud en esta conmovedora secuela a Cajas de cart?n.
At the age of fourteen, Francisco Jimenez, together with… [more below]- Series: Cajas de Carton #2
- Author: Jim?nez, Francisco
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 30 2002
- ISBN10: 0618226184
- Language: Spanish
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Americanized: Rebel Without a Green Card
$12.99 Read moreIn development as a television series from Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine production company and ABC Studios!
This hilarious, poignant and true story of one teen’s experience growing up in Americ- Author: Saedi, Sara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 26 2019
- ISBN10: 1524717827
- Language: English
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My City Was a Sparkling Jewel: Voices of Newcomer Youth from Afghanistan
$24.99 Read moreUsing a trauma-informed approach to gathering stories, this unique collection of 19 stories illuminates the range of challenges and successes met by the latest generation of displaced peoples from Afg… [more below]
- Author: Rozman, Tea
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1949523284
- Language: English
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Pitch Black
$17.95 Read moreIn this short graphic novel, acclaimed author Youme joins with Anthony Horton to tell the true story of how Anthony lived and created art underneath the New York City subway system.
“On the subway, do
- Author: Horton, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1643796569
- Language: English
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The Cat I Never Named: A True Story of Love, War, and Survival
$19.99 Add to cartThe stunning memoir of a Muslim teen struggling to survive in the midst of the Bosnian genocide–and the stray cat who protected her family through it all.
*Six Starred Reviews*
“Extraordinary.” – Bookl- Author: Sabic-El-Rayess, Amra
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1547604530
- Language: English
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Reaching Out
$9.99 Add to cartThe third book in Francisco Jim?nez’s powerful and acclaimed memoirs about his childhood and adolescence as the son of Mexican immigrants in California.
“In this eloquent, transfixing account, Jim?nez
- Series: Circuit #3
- Author: Jiménez, Francisco
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 07 2009
- ISBN10: 547250304
- Language: English
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Farewell to Manzanar 50th Anniversary Edition
$22.99 Add to cartJeanne Wakatsuki Houston recalls her childhood at a Japanese incarceration camp in this engrossing memoir that has become a staple of curriculum in schools and on campuses across the country. This spe
- Author: Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0063319055
- Language: English
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Facing the Lion: Growing Up Maasai on the African Savanna
$6.95 Add to cartJoseph Lemasolai Lekuton gives American kids a firsthand look at growing up in Kenya as a member of a tribe of nomads whose livelihood centers on the raising and grazing of cattle. Readers share Lekut… [more below]
- Author: Viola, Herman J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 11 2005
- ISBN10: 0792272978
- Language: English
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Islands Apart: Becoming Dominican American
$14.95 Add to cart“Jasminne Mendez didn’t speak English when she started kindergarten, and her young, white teacher thought the girl was deaf because in Louisiana, you were either Black or white. She had no idea that a… [more below]
- Author: Mendez, Jasminne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 70
- Publish Date: May 31 2022
- ISBN10: 1558859446
- Language: English
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Discovering Wes Moore
$12.99 Read moreFrom the governor-elect of Maryland comes a story of two fatherless boys from Baltimore, both named Wes Moore. One is in prison, serving a life sentence for murder. The other is a Rhodes Scholar, an a… [more below]
- Author: Moore, Wes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 10 2013
- ISBN10: 0385741685
- Language: English
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Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings: A Memoir
$11.99 Read moreIn this poetic memoir, which won the Pura Belpr? Author Award, was a YALSA Nonfiction Finalist, and was named a Walter Dean Myers Award Honoree, acclaimed author Margarita Engle tells of growing up as… [more below]
- Author: Engle, Margarita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 02 2016
- ISBN10: 148143523X
- Language: English
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Every Falling Star: The True Story of How I Survived and Escaped North Korea
$14.99 Add to cartEvery Falling Star, the first book to portray contemporary North Korea to a young audience, is Sungju Lee’s intense memoir about being forced at age 12 to live on the streets and fend for himself.
“Pr- Author: Lee, Sungju
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: October 17 2017
- ISBN10: 1419727613
- Language: English
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Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter
$11.99 Add to cartMore than 800,000 copies in print!
From the author of critically acclaimed and bestselling memoir Falling Leaves, this is a poignant and moving true account of her childhood, growing up as an unlove… [more below]- Author: Mah, Adeline Yen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 14, 2010
- ISBN10: 0385740077
- Language: English
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A Quantum Life (Adapted for Young Adults): My Unlikely Journey from the Street to the Stars
$18.99 Add to cartA NASA astrophysicist narrates his improbable journey from an impoverished childhood and an adolescence mired in drugs and crime to the nation’s top physics PhD program at Stanford in this inspiring c… [more below]
- Author: Oluseyi, Hakeem
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1984849638
- Language: English
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Farewell to Manzanar
$10.99 Add to cartJeanne Wakatsuki Houston recalls her childhood at a Japanese incarceration camp in this engrossing memoir that has become a staple of curriculum in schools and on campuses across the country. This spe
- Author: Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 11, 2017
- ISBN10: 1328742113
- Language: English
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Of Beetles & Angels: A Boy’s Remarkable Journey from a Refugee Camp to Harvard
$12.99 Add to cartRead the remarkable true story of a young boy’s journey from civil war in east Africa to a refugee camp in Sudan, to a childhood on welfare in an affluent American suburb, and eventually to a full-tui… [more below]
- Author: Asgedom, Mawi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0316826200
- Language: English
