[CASL-L] MS Biography Recommendations Please

[Cheryl Robertson]

Hi Keri,
I've attached a list of some of our students' favorites.  It includes some
terrific graphic book options.
Best,
Cheryl

On Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 11:43 AM Keri Procko <kprocko at thompsonk12.org> wrote:

> Hello!
>
> I am looking to update my biography/autobiography collection and would
> love some suggestions.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Keri
>
> Keri M. Procko
> Library Media Specialist
> Thompson Middle School
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*Cheryl A. Robertson*
*Library Media Specialist*
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*"Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty.  It
should be offered as a gift." ~Kate DiCamillo*

*CURRENTLY READING*
*The Toll* by Neal Shusterman
*Out to Get You: 13 Tales of Weirdness & Woe *by Josh Allen

*CURRENTLY LISTENING*
*Clean Getaway* by Nic Stone

*RECENTLY FINISHED*
*Written in the Stars by Aisha Saeed*

*Principles for Success by Ray Dalio*
*Limitless Mind: Learn, Lead, and Live without Barriers *by Jo Boaler
*Brain Wash* by Drs. David and Austin Perlmutter
*Thunderhead* by Neal Shusterman
*Rules of Civility* by Amor Towles
*Sanditon *by Jane Austen and Marie Dobbs
*No One Is Too Small** by Greta Thunberg*
*Simple Matters: Living with Less and Ending Up with More *by Erin Boyle
*Pumpkin Heads: A Graphic Novel *by Rainbow Rowell and Faith Erin Hicks

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Narrative Nonfiction

Titles: 126

Uncracked codes and cyphers
	[ Book ] 005.8 BYE	Byers, Ann.
		Published 2017
My year with Eleanor : a memoir
	[ Book ] 070 HAN	Hancock, Noelle.
		Published 2011
Women in sports media
	[ Book ] 070.82 RUL	Rule, Heather.
		Published 2018
Popular : a memoir : vintage wisdom for a modern geek
	[ Book ] 155.5 VAN	Van Wagenen, Maya.
		Published 2014
Stormy seas : stories of young boat refugees
	[ Book ] 305.9 LEA	Leatherdale, Mary Beth.
		Published 2017
Sabotage, sedition, and sundry acts of rebellion
	[ Book ] 306.3 ARE	Aretha, David.
		Published 2015
She takes a stand : 16 fearless activists who have changed the world
	[ Book ] 320.082 ROS	Ross, Michael Elsohn, 1952-
		Published 2015
Chasing King's killer : the hunt for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassin
	[ Book ] 323.092 SWA	Swanson, James L.
		Published 2018
Students on strike : Jim Crow, civil rights, Brown, and me : a memoir
	[ Book ] 344.73 STO	Stokes, John A., 1931-
		Published 2008
A girl's life online
	[ Book ] 362.76 TAR	Tarbox, Katherine.
		Published 2004
Top 10 worst floods
	[ Book ] 363.34 SPI	Spilsbury, Louise.
		Published 2017
Garbage in space : a space discovery guide
	[ Book ] 363.72 GOL	Goldstein, Margaret J.
		Published 2017
Warriors don't cry A searing memoir of the battle to integrate Little Rock's Central High
	[ Language ] 370.19 BEA	Beals, Melba Pattillo
		Published 2002
I am Malala : the story of the girl who stood up for education and was shot by the Taliban
	[ Book ] 371 YOU	Yousafzai, Malala, 1997-
		Published 2013
The omnivore's dilemma : the secrets behind what you eat
	[ Book ] 394.1 CHE	Chevat, Richie.
		Published 2015
Amazon adventure : how tiny fish are saving the world's largest rainforest
	[ Book ] 577.0981 MON	Montgomery, Sy.
		Published 2017
Sea turtle scientist
	[ Book ] 597.92 SWI	Swinburne, Stephen R.
		Published 2014
Whale quest : working together to save endangered species
	[ Book ] 599.5 YOU	Young, Karen Romano.
		Published 2018
Wild horse scientists
	[ Book ] 599.665 FRY	Frydenborg, Kay.
		Published 2012
The elephant whisperer : my life with the herd in the African wild
	[ Book ] 599.67 ANT	Anthony, Lawrence.
		Published 2017
The elephant scientist
	[ Book ] 599.67 OCO	O'Connell, Caitlin, 1965-
		Published 2011
The polar bear scientists
	[ Book ] 599.786 LOU	Lourie, Peter.
		Published 2012
Med head : my knock-down, drag-out, drugged-up battle with my brain
	[ Book ] 616.8 PAT	Patterson, James, 1947-
		Published 2010
From here to there : the story of how we transport ourselves and everything else
	[ Book ] 629.04 NEW	Newquist, H. P. (Harvey P.)
		Published 2017
The story of seeds : from Mendel's garden to your plate, and how there's more of less to eat around the world
	[ Book ] 631.5 CAS	Castaldo, Nancy F. (Nancy Fusco), 1962-
		Published 2016
Craig & Fred : a Marine, a stray dog, and how they rescued each other
	[ Book ] 636.7 GRO	Grossi, Craig.
		Published 2018
Sniffer dogs : how dogs (and their noses) save the world
	[ Book ] 636.7088 CAS	Castaldo, Nancy F. (Nancy Fusco), 1962-
		Published 2014
Marley & me : life and love with the world's worst dog
	[ Book ] 636.752 GRO	Grogan, John, 1957-
		Published 2008
The hive detectives : chronicle of a honey bee catastrophe
	[ Book ] 638 BUR	Burns, Loree Griffin.
		Published 2010
Sneaker century : a history of athletic shoes
	[ Book ] 685.31 KEY	Keyser, Amber.
		Published 2015
Skywalkers : Mohawk ironworkers build the city
	[ Book ] 690 WEI	Weitzman, David, 1936-
		Published 2010
If you can doodle, you can paint : transforming simple drawings into works of art
	[ Book ] 702 CUL	Culhane, Diane.
		Published 2017
Star, branch, spiral, fan : learn to draw from nature's perfect design structures
	[ Book ] 741.2 JAM	James, Yellena.
		Published 2017
Drowned city : Hurricane Katrina & New Orleans
	[ Book ] 741.5 BRO	Brown, Don.
		Published 2015
Pashmina
	[ Book ] 741.5 CHA	Chanani, Nidhi.
		Published 2017
20 ways to draw everything : with 135 nature themes from cats and tigers to tulips and trees
	[ Book ] 743 CON	Congdon, Lisa.
		Published 2016
Botanical line drawing : 200 step-by-step flowers, leaves, cacti, succulents, and other items found in nature
	[ Book ] 743 DEA	Dean, Peggy (Illustrator)
		Published 2018
The football fanbook : everything you need to become a gridiron know-it-all : lingo, trivia, stats, skills
	[ Book ] 796.332 GRA	Gramling, Gary.
		Published 2017
The Negro Leagues : celebrating baseball's unsung heroes
	[ Book ] 796.357 DOE	Doeden, Matt.
		Published 2017
Spinning
	[ Book ] 796.91 WAL	Walden, Tillie, 1996-
		Published 2017
The science behind swimming, diving, and other water sports
	[ Book ] 797.2 LAN	Lanser, Amanda.
		Published 2016
Writer to writer : from think to ink
	[ Book ] 808 LEV	Levine, Gail Carson.
		Published 2015
Enchanted air : a Cold War memoir
	[ Book ] 811.54 ENG	Engle, Margarita.
		Published 2015
No ordinary day
	[ Book ] 813.54 ELL	Ellis, Deborah, 1960-
		Published 2011
My Dog Skip
	[ Book ] 813.54 MOR	Morris, Willie.
		Published 1995
This side of wild : mutts, mares, and laughing dinosaurs
	[ Book ] 813.54 PAU	Paulsen, Gary.
		Published 2015
Lionheart : a journey of the human spirit
	[ Book ] 910.4 MAR	Martin, Jesse, 1981-
		Published 2000
The finest hours : the true story of a heroic sea rescue
	[ Book ] 910.9163 TOU	Tougias, Mike, 1955-
		Published 2014
A storm too soon : a remarkable true survival story in 80-foot seas
	[ Book ] 910.9163 TOU	Tougias, Mike, 1955-
		Published 2017
Childtimes : a three-generation memoir
	[ Book ] 920 GRE	Greenfield, Eloise.
		Published 1979
Hidden women : the African-American mathematicians of NASA who helped America win the space race
	[ Book ] 920 RIS	Rissman, Rebecca.
		Published 2018
Girls think of everything : stories of ingenious inventions by women
	[ Book ] 920 THI	Thimmesh, Catherine.
		Published 2018
Stubby the war dog : the true story of World War I's bravest dog
	[ Book ] 940.4 BAU	Bausum, Ann.
		Published 2014
After the Holocaust
	[ Book ] 940.53 GRE	Greenfeld, Howard.
		Published 2001
Looking like the enemy : my story of imprisonment in Japanese-American internment camps
	[ Book ] 940.53 GRU	Gruenewald, Mary Matsuda, 1925-
		Published 2010
I have lived a thousand years : growing up in the Holocaust
	[ Book ] 940.53 JAC	Jackson, Livia Bitton.
		Published 1999
Lost childhood : my life in a Japanese prison camp during World War II : a memoir
	[ Book ] 940.53 LAY	Layson, Annelex Hofstra.
		Published 2008
The big lie : a true story
	[ Book ] 940.53 LEI	Leitner, Isabella.
		Published 1992
The boy on the wooden box : how the impossible became possible-- on Schindler's list : a memoir
	[ Book ] 940.53 LEY	Leyson, Leon, 1929-2013.
		Published 2013
Irena's children : young readers edition
	[ Book ] 940.53 MAZ	Mazzeo, Tilar J.
		Published 2016
The journey back
	[ Book ] 940.53 REI	Reiss, Johanna.
		Published 1976
Surviving Hitler A boy in the nazi death camps
	[ Language ] 940.53 WAR c.2	Warrem, Andrea
		Published 2001
The perfect horse : the daring rescue of horses kidnapped by Hitler : adapted for young people
	[ Book ] 940.54 LET	Letts, Elizabeth.
		Published 2019
No better friend : young readers edition : a man, a dog, and their incredible true story of friendship and survival in World War II
	[ Book ] 940.54 WEI	Weintraub, Robert.
		Published 2018
Code girls : the true story of the American women who secretly broke codes in World War II
	[ Book ] 940.548 MUN	Mundy, Liza.
		Published 2018
Facing the lion growing up Maasai on the African savanna
	[ Follett eBook ] 967.62/004965	Lekuton, Joseph.
		Published 2003
Liberty or death : the surprising story of runaway slaves who sided with the British during the American Revolution
	[ Book ] 973.3 BLA	Blair, Margaret Whitman.
		Published 2010
Alexander Hamilton
	[ Book ] 973.4 KAN	Kanefield, Teri, 1960-
		Published 2017
The heart of everything that is : the untold story of Redloud, an American legend
	[ Book ] 978.004 DRU	Drury, Bob.
		Published 2017
Becoming Kareem : growing up on and off the court
	[ Book ] 92 ABDUL-JABB	Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem.
		Published 2018
Becoming Kareem : growing up on and off the court
	[ Book ] 92 ABDUL-JABBAR	Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem, 1947-
		Published 2017
Path to the stars : my journey from Girl Scout to rocket scientist
	[ Book ] 92 ACEVEDO	Acevedo, Sylvia.
		Published 2018
Tasting the sky : a Palestinian childhood
	[ Book ] 92 BARAKAT	Barakat, Ibtisam.
		Published 2007
El Deafo
	[ Book ] 92 BELL	Bell, Cece.
		Published 2014
She said yes : the unlikely martyrdom of Cassie Bernall
	[ Book ] 92 BERNALL	Bernall, M. (Misty), 1961-
		Published 2000
Courage to soar : a body in motion, a life in balance
	[ Book ] 92 BILES	Biles, Simone.
		Published 2016
The faithful spy : Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the plot to kill Hitler
	[ Book ] 92 BONHOEFFER	Hendrix, John, 1976-
		Published 2018
Survivors club : the true story of a very young prisoner of Auschwitz
	[ Book ] 92 BORNSTEIN	Bornstein, Michael, 1940-
		Published 2019
Coco Chanel : pearls, perfume, and the little black dress
	[ Book ] 92 CHANEL	Rubin, Susan Goldman.
		Published 2018
Remember my name : my story, from first pitch to game changer
	[ Book ] 92 DAVIS	Davis, Mo'ne.
		Published 2016
Zlata's Diary: A childs life in Sarajevo
	[ Book ] 92 Filipovic c.4	Filipovic, Zlata
		Published 1994
The abracadabra kid : a writer's life
	[ Book ] 92 FLE	Fleischman, Sid, 1920-
		Published 1996
Cheaper by the Dozen
	[ Book ] 92 GILBRETH	Gilbreth, Frank B. (Frank Bunker), 1911-
		Published 1948
Notorious RBG : the life and times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
	[ Book ] 92 GINSBURG	Carmon, Irin.
		Published 2017
The distance between us
	[ Book ] 92 GRANDE	Grande, Reyna.
		Published 2017
My family divided : one girl's journey of home, loss, and hope
	[ Book ] 92 GUERRERO	Guerrero, Diane, 1986-
		Published 2018
Alexander Hamilton
	[ Book ] 92 HAMILTON	Kanefield, Teri, 1960-
		Published 2018
I got this : to gold and beyond
	[ Book ] 92 HERNANDEZ	Hernandez, Laurie.
		Published 2017
They call me a hero : a memoir of my youth
	[ Book ] 92 HERNANDEZ	Hernandez, Daniel, 1990-
		Published 2013
Rethinking normal : a memoir in transition
	[ Book ] 92 HILL	Hill, Katie Rain.
		Published 2014
Farewell to Manzanar
	[ Book ] 92 HOUSTON	Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki.
		Published 1995
Reaching for the moon : the autobiography of NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson.
	[ Book ] 92 JOH	Johnson, Katherine G.,
		Published 2019
The boy who harnessed the wind
	[ Book ] 92 KAMKWAMBA	Kamkwamba, William, 1987-
		Published 2012
The story of my life
	[ Book ] 92 KELLER	Keller, Helen, 1880-1968.
		Published 1990
Endurance : my year in space and how I got there
	[ Book ] 92 KELLY	Kelly, Scott, 1964-
		Published 2018
Alex Ko : from Iowa to Broadway, my Billy Elliot story
	[ Book ] 92 KO	Ko, Alex.
		Published 2013
Every falling star : the true story of how I survived and escaped North Korea
	[ Book ] 92 LEE	Lee, Sungju.
		Published 2016
I was a teenage professional wrestler
	[ Book ] 92 LEWIN	Lewin, Ted.
		Published 1993
And there was light : the extraordinary memoir of a blind hero of the French resistance in World War II
	[ Book ] 92 LUSSEYRAN	Lusseyran, Jacques.
		Published 2014
The diary of Ma Yan : the struggles and hopes of a Chinese schoolgirl
	[ Book ] 92 MA	Ma, Yan, 1987-
		Published 2005
Chinese Cinderella : the true story of an unwanted daughter
	[ Book ] 92 MAH	Mah, Adeline Yen, 1937-
		Published 1999
Becoming Maria : love and chaos in the South Bronx
	[ Book ] 92 MANZANO	Manzano, Sonia.
		Published 2015
Of beetles & angels : a boy's remarkable journey from a refugee camp to Harvard
	[ Book ] 92 MAWI	Mawi Asgedom.
		Published 2002
Chasing space
	[ Book ] 92 MELVIN	Melvin, Leland.
		Published 2017
Breakaway
	[ Book ] 92 MORGAN	Morgan, Alex (Alexandra Patricia), 1989-
		Published 2015
Proud : living my American dream
	[ Book ] 92 MUHAMMAD	Muhammad, Ibtihaj.
		Published 2018
The queen of Katwe : one girl's triumphant path to becoming a chess champion
	[ Book ] 92 MUTESI	Crothers, Tim.
		Published 2013
Caught by the sea : my life on boats
	[ Book ] 92 PAULSEN	Paulsen, Gary.
		Published 2001
Guts : the true stories behind Hatchet and the Brian books
	[ Book ] 92 PAULSEN	Paulsen, Gary.
		Published 2002
Puppies, dogs, and blue northers : reflections on being raised by a pack of sled dogs
	[ Book ] 92 PAULSEN	Paulsen, Gary.
		Published 2007
Dancing through it : my journey in the ballet
	[ Book ] 92 RINGER	Ringer, Jenifer.
		Published 2014
The closer
	[ Book ] 92 RIVERA	Rivera, Mariano.
		Published 2016
Tuesdays with Morrie: an old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
	[ Book ] 92 SCHWARTZ	Albom, Mitch
		Published 1997
My corner of the ring : a memoir from a champ
	[ Book ] 92 SIL	Silva, Jesselyn,
		Published 2019
The beloved world of Sonia Sotomayor
	[ Book ] 92 SOTOMAYOR	Sotomayor, Sonia.
		Published 2018
Tom Thumb : the remarkable true story of a man in miniature
	[ Book ] 92 THUMB	Sullivan, George, 1927-
		Published 2011
Forward : my story
	[ Book ] 92 WAMBACH	Wambach, Abby.
		Published 2017
Ryan White, my own story
	[ Book ] 92 WHITE	White, Ryan.
		Published 1991
Serena Williams : Legends in Sports
	[ Book ] 92 WILLIAMS	Matt Christoper.
		Published 2002
Brown girl dreaming
	[ Book ] 92 WOODSON	Woodson, Jacqueline.
		Published 2014
Unbroken : an Olympian's journey from airman to castaway to captive
	[ Book ] 92 ZAMPERINI	Hillenbrand, Laura.
		Published 2017
The Journey back
	[ Book ] AC 940.53 REI	Reiss, Johanna.
		Published 1978
She Said Yes: the Unlikely Martyrdom of Cassie Bernall
	[ Book ] LA BER	Bernall, Misty
		Published 1999
Red Scarf Girl: a memoir of the Cultural Revolution
	[ Book ] LA JIA	Jiang, Ji-li
		Published 1997
Night
	[ Book ] LA WIE	Wiesel, Elie.
		Published 2006
A child called "It" : one child's courage to survive
	[ Book ] PRO 92 PELZER	Pelzer, David J.
		Published 1995