Loving vs. Virginia: A Documentary Novel of the Landmark Civil Rights Caseby Patricia Hruby Powell; illus. by Shadra StricklandMiddle School, High School    Chronicle    260 pp.2/17    978-1-4521-2590-9    $21.99Organized chronologically, the alternating first-person narratives, written in free verse, begin in 1952 as Mildred Jeter enters sixth grade at the “colored” school; six...

Memoir is a genre that often gets subsumed under the big banner of biography. While biographies and autobiographies provide a broad overview of a subject’s life, the memoir is a repository of discrete moments and events that have crystallized into long-lasting recollections. Because they are generally told in the first...