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Childhood and youth
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FirebirdMark Doty discusses what it was like to grow up as a homosexual, how his parents and siblings reacted to the news, and how he came to terms with his sexuality. |
B DOTY |
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The Endless SteppeDuring World War II, when she was eleven years old, the author and her family were arrested in Poland by the Russians as political enemies and exiled to Siberia. |
B HAUTZIG |
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Of Beetles & AngelsAn autobiography in which Mawi Asgedom tells the story of how, at the age of three, he fled civil war in Ethiopia by walking with his mother and brother to a Sudanese refugee camp, and later moved to |
B MAWI |
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Girls of Tender AgeMary-Ann Tirone Smith chronicles her French-Italian family's struggle to survive in a housing project in Hartford, Connecticut, in the years following World War II. |
B SMITH |
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Eastern Sun, Winter MoonThe author chronicles his boyhood in the U.S. and the Philippines during World War II. |
B PAULSEN |
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Bad BoyAuthor 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 |
B MYERS |
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Mary, Bloody MaryMary Tudor, who would reign briefly as Queen of England during the mid-sixteenth century, tells the story of her troubled childhood as daughter of King Henry VIII. |
FIC MEY |
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My Father's SummersA series of prose poems describes the author's life while she was growing up in Houston, Texas, from her eleventh birthday in 1965 through her eighteenth in 1972, and beyond. |
B Appelt |
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Learning Joy From Dogs without CollarsRelates the author's experiences growing up with an unwed, homeless mother, attending Harvard, finding her father, and finding her place in the world. |
B Summer |
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On Hitler's MountainIrmgard Hunt chronicles the experiences she had as a child growing up in the Bavarian village of Berchtesgaden during Hitler's Nazi regime. |
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