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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
At age twenty-eight, Mira Ptacin discovered she was pregnant. Though it was unplanned, she soon embraced the pregnancy and became engaged to Andrew, the father. Five months later, an ultrasound revealed birth defects that would give the child no chance of survival outside the womb. Mira was given three options: terminate her pregnancy, induce early delivery, or wait and inevitably miscarry. Mira's story is woven together with the story of her mother,...
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
339 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The Native American author recounts the story of his family, from the legacy of government boearding schools to his personal experiences fighting to be an artist balancing multiple worlds.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1995], c1933
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
210 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Profiles the life of the noted nineteenth-century writer, detailing her early, happy childhood in Pennsylvania and Boston, and her later success as author of the classic Little Women.
5) Shout
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A memoir in verse shares the author's life, covering her rape at thirteen, her difficult early childhood, and her experiences surrounding her publication of "Speak."
7) Yo!
Author
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
c1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
414 pages ; 21 cm
Language
Español
Author
Publisher
Cinco Puntos Press, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
271 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"A memoir by a Mexican American woman that doubles as a love letter to the tough grandmother who raised her"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Finalist for the 2009 National Book Award and finalist for two 2010 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards: the prize-winning children's author depicts a childhood from hell in this searing yet redemptive graphic memoir. One day David Small awoke from a supposedly harmless operation to discover that he had been transformed into a virtual mute. A vocal cord removed, his throat slashed and stitched together like a bloody boot, the fourteen-year-old boy had...
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