[CALIBK12] Biographies/Autobiographies for High School - responses

[Heather Neidenbach]

Thank you to all who responded to my request for biographies for High School students.  Many people requested the information, so here is the list of titles that I received.  
   
  Night   by  Eli Wiesel
Always Running   by Luis Rodriguez
Motorcycle Diaries   by Ernesto "Che" Guevara
Down These Mean Street   by Piri Thomas
A Child Called It   by David Pelzer
The Greatest Muhammad Ali    by  Walter Dean Myers
My Name is -- Me llamo Celia:  The Life of Celia Cruz - La vida de
Celia Cruz
(Dual text Picture Book good for ESL or Spanish 1 for Anglos)
Tony Hawk:  Occupation Skateboarder
  
The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of Dorothy Day
  Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
  Soul Surfer by Bethany Hamilton
  Swimming to Antarctica by Lynne Cox
  Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom
   
    Walls, The Glass Castle is circulating well at our library.
  Phoolan -- The Bandit Queen of India: An Indian Woman's Journey   is on one teacher's reading list
  Runyon -- The Burn Journals
  Oppenheimer's biography is too thick for recreational reading --- American Prometheus---but excellent
  Zailckas, Koren    Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girhood
   
  Shakur    Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member
  Herriot    All Creatures Great and Small
  Ji Li Jiang    Red Scarf Girl: a Memoir of the Cultural Revolution
  Wong    Fifth Chinese Daugher
  Wright    Black Boy
  Soto    Livng Up the Street
  Him, chanrithy    When Broken Glass Floats
  Rodriquez, Art    East Side Dreams
  Rodriguez, Luis J.      Always Running:  La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A.
  Finding Fish
  Hurston    Dusts Tracks on a Road
  Barris, Chuck    Confessions of a Dangerous Mind: an Unauthorized Autobiography
  Falling Leaves Return to their Roots
   
  Sincerely,
  Heather Neidenbach
  LMT
  La Reina High School


       
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