AUTOBIOGRAPHIES

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Athletes

 

Call #                     Author                             Title

 

JB                   Moceanu, Dominique              Dominique Moceanu: An American Champion (1996)

JB                   Riddles, Libby                         Storm Run (2002)

JB                   Ripken, Cal                            Count Me In (1995)

 

J 796.91          Hamill, Dorothy                       Dorothy Hamill On and Off the Ice (1983)

 

Authors

 

Call #                     Author                             Title

 

JB                  Aardema, Verna                      Bookworm Who Hatched (1992)

JB                  Bulla, Clyde                             A Grain of Wheat:  A Writer Begins (1985)

JB                  Cleary, Beverly                       Girl from Yamhill (1988)

JB                  Cleary, Beverly                       My Own Two Feet (1995)

JB                  Cole, Joanna                            On the Bus with Joanna Cole (1996)

JB                  Dahl, Roald                             Boy:  Tales of Childhood (1984)

JB                  Dahl, Roald                             My Year (1994)

JB                  Fleischman, Sid                        Abracadabra Kid (1996)

JB                  Fritz, Jean                               Surprising Myself (1992)

JB                  Goble, Paul                              Hau Kola:  Hello Friend (1994)

JB                  Hopkins, Lee Bennett              Writing Bug (1993)

JB                  Keller, Helen                           The Story of My Life (1976)

JB                  Little, Jean                              Stars Come Out Within (1990)

JB                  Martin, Rafe                            Storyteller's Story (1992)

JB                  Nesbit, Edith                            Long Ago When I was Young (1966)

JB                  Peet, Bill                                 Bill Peet, an Autobiography (1989)

JB                  Polacco, Patricia                      Firetalking (1994)

JB                  Rylant, Cynthia                        Best Wishes (1992)

JB                  Rylant, Cynthia                        But I'll be Back Again (1988)

JB                  Stine, R.L.                               It Came From Ohio (1997)

JB                  Yolen, Jane                             A Letter From Phoenix Farm (1992)

JB                   Zemach, Margot                     Self Portrait:  Margot Zemach (1978)

 

J 741.0924      Schulz, Charles                        Charlie Brown, Snoopy and Me (1980)

J 818.52         Yates, Elizabeth                       My Diary -- My World (1981)

 

YAB              Duncan, Lois                           Chapters:  My Growth as a Writer (1982)

YAB              Kerr, M.E.                              ME, ME, ME, ME, ME (1983)

YAB              Zindel, Paul                             Pigman and Me (1992)

 

 

Historical Lives and Events

 

Call #                     Author                             Title

 

JB                  Douglass, Frederick                 Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1962)

JB                  Equiano, Olaudah                     The Kidnapped Prince (1995)

JB                  Frank, Anne                            Diary of a Young Girl (1952)

JB                  Gordy, Berry                           Movin' Up (1979)

JB                  Hautzig, Esther                        Endless Steppe:  Growing Up in Siberia (1968)

JB                  Henson, Matthew                    A Black Explorer at the North Pole (1969)

JB                  Ippisch, Hanneke                     Sky:  A True Story of Resistance During WWII (1996)

JB                  Jackson, Livia                          I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up In         

                                                                         The Holocaust (1999)

JB                  Siegel, Aranka                         Upon the Head of the Goat:  A Childhood in Hungary

                                                                         (1981)

JB                  Washington, Booker T             Up from Slavery (2000)

JB                  Wilder, Laura Ingalls                On the Way Home (1994)

JB                   Zhang, Song Nan                    Little Tiger in the Chinese Night (1993)

 

J 940.548        Reiss, Johanna                         The Journey Back (1987)

J 951.212        Fritz, Jean                               China Homecoming (1985)

J 959.7           Huynh, Quang Nhuong             The Land I Lost (1982)

 

YA 940.53     Bergman, Tamar                      Along the Tracks (1991)

 

Personal Challenges and Achievements

 

Call #                     Author                             Title

 

JB                 Goodall, Jane                            My Life with the Chimpanzees (1988)

JB                 Jiang, Ji-Li                                Red Scarf Girl: Memoir of the Cultural Revolution (1999)

JB                 Kehret, Peg                              Small Steps (1996)

JB                 O’Grady, Scott                         Basher five-two: True Story of F-16 Fighter Pilot Captain

                                                                         Scott O’Grady (1997)

JB                 Van Meter, Vicki                      Taking Flight (1995)

 

J 362.1          Simonides, Carol                       I'll Never Walk Alone (1983)

J 362.43        Tada, Joni                                 Joni (1976)

J 759.13        O'Kelley, Mattie Lou                 From the Hills of Georgia (1983)

 

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