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Bad Boy

Walter Dean Myers

Author Walter Dean Myers describes his childhood in Harlem in the 1940s and 1950s, discussing his loving stepmother, his problems in school, his reasons for leaving home, and his beginnings as a write
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My Life So Far

Jane Fonda

Contains the personal memoir of Jane Fonda, the actress, feminist, and activist, divided into three parts that reflect the different periods of her life.
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Bad Boy

Walter Dean Myers

Author Walter Dean Myers describes his childhood in Harlem in the 1940s and 1950s, discussing his loving stepmother, his problems in school, his reasons for leaving home, and his beginnings as a write
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MYERS

Chinese Cinderella

Adeline Yen Mah

The author tells the story of her painful childhood in China where she lived until the age of fourteen with her father, stepmother, and siblings, all of whom considered her bad luck because her mother
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Hurricane

James S. Hirsch

Chronicles Rubin Carter's twenty-year imprisonment, discussing why he was accused of three murders he did not commit, how racial issues affected the outcome of his trial, how he earned the support of
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Cosby

Ronald L. Smith

Biography of comedian Bill Cosby, revealing the struggles he endured growing up in the Philadelphia projects, looking at some of the people and books that have inspired him, and tracing his climb up t
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