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Author and artist Art Spiegelman interviewed his father to get his perspective on what life was like for him during World War II and the...

Jackie Woodson was born in Ohio but soon moved to live with her grandparents in South Carolina. Her childhood was filled with family,...

Fifteen-year-old Allison is a rock star at her school. She has made a name for herself on the cross country team, she is an honor...

I listened to Jason Reynolds read this poem/letter and it took less than 20 minutes. Worth every minute. In crazy apocalyptic times like...

I’ve always been a fan of Peg Kehret’s action packed kids’ books. In fact, Deadly Stranger was my favorite in elementary school! It was a...

This book is an artist’s memoir. The author details his very rough and unconventional childhood in graphic novel form. His mother was a...

Whoa. This is such a powerful memoir in verse. Laurie Halse Anderson reveals the demons in her past that led her to write her books,...

My very conservative mother gave me this book for Christmas in 2016. As someone who sobbed when Trump was announced the president, I had...

This was everything I wanted it to be. I got background info on Lauren Graham and what led her to Gilmore Girls and I got inside insights...

Tasting the sky is a memoir by Ibtisam Barakat. She starts the book by introducing the Middle East Conflict. She was only three years old...

Wow. This is a powerful story about a young Cambodian boy whose family was murdered in front of him by the Khmer Rouge in the 1970s. He...