LANGUAGE ARTS
Mary Ann Svagerko
READING LIST AUTOBIOGRAPHIES
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Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy
Bad Boy by Walter Dean Myers
Beautiful Days of my Youth: My Six Months in Auschwitz and Plaszow by Ana Novac
Bo Knows Bo: The Autobiography of a Ballplayer by: Bo Jackson
Boy: Tales of Childhood by Ronald Dahl
Burn Journals by Brent Runyon
Burnt: A Teenage Addict’s Road to Recovery by Craig Fraser
A Child Called It: One Child’s Courage to Survive by David J. Pelzer
Devil in the Details: Scenes From an Obsessive Girlhood by Jennifer Traig
Friend Called Anne: One Girl’s Story of War, Peace, and a Unique Friendship with Anne Frank by Carol Ann Lee
Hole in my Life by Jack Gantos
Joni: An Unforgettable Story by Joni Eareckson Tada
A Journey: The Autobiography of Apolo Anton Ohno by Apolo Anton Ohno
King of the Mild Frontier by Chris Crutcher
Knots in my Yo-Yo String by Jerry Spinelli
Needles: A Memoir of Growing up with Diabetes by Andie Dominick
Room to Grow: An Appetite for Life by Traci Gold
Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood by Julie Gregory
Stick Figure: A Diary of my Former Self  by Lori Gottlieb
Total impact: Straight Talk From Football’s Hardest Hitter by Ronnie Lott
Wanted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia by Mary Hornbacher
Without a Net: Middle Class and Homeless (with Kids) in America by Michelle Kennedy
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Mary Angelou
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave by Frederick Douglass
Foley Is Good- and the Real World is Faker Than Wrestling by Mick Foley
Icebreaker: The Autobiography of Rudy Galindo by Rudy Galindo
Red Scarf Girl:  A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution by Ji-li Jiang
Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah
I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala by Rigoberta Manchu
Silent Dancing: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood by Judith Oritz Cofer
The Rock says…: The Most Electrifying Man in Sports-Entertainment by The Rock
Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang days in L.A. by Luis j. Rodriguez
When I Was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago
Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington
Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth by Richard Wright
The Pigman & Me by Paul Zindel
Agatha Christie: An Autobiography by Agatha Christie
Anastasia: The Autobiography of H.I.H the Grand Duchess Anastasia Nichlovene of Russia by Anastasia Nicholovena
Angle on my Shoulder by Natalie Cole
As I See It by Paul Getty
I, Asimov: a Memoir by Isaac Asimov
Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley, Malcolm X
If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home by Tim O’Brien
Bound Feet & Western Dress: A Memoir by Pang-Mei Chang
The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys
The Confessions of St. Augustine by Saint Bishop of Hippo Augustine
*One Writers Beginnings by Eudora Welty
Van Gogh by Vincent Van Gogh
Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy
Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant by Ulysses S. Grant
All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot
Autobiography by Mark Twain
My Life by Bill Clinton
Autobiography of Will Rogers by Will Rogers
Ryan White: My own story by Ryan White



 
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