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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
The author recounts her traumatic childhood, with a mother suffering from mental illness, unfortunate experiences in a series of foster homes, and her discovery of her love of writing, which eventually helped her overcome the hazards of her life.
Publisher
Lawrence Hill Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
xxv, 230 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Culled from full-length autobiographies, the voices of ten slaves--all under the age of nineteen--describe the full range of slave experiences, from starvation, torture, and violence, to love, laughter, and family life.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
232 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
In this inspirational story of courage, determination, strength, and self-invention, an elite wheelchair racer and wrestler recounts a childhood of abuse and neglect until he meets two saviors--a wrestling coach who sensed his "warrior spirit" and his adoptive mother who set him up for success.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
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Description
Now adapted for young adults, the #1 New York times best-selling memoir offers an intimate look at Barack Obama's early days, tracing the future 44th president's odyssey through family, race, and identity.
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