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Life under siege
Growing up amidst political turmoil and war can have profound effects on any individual. These memoirs and biographies offer nuanced explorations of lives in such uncertain places and times.In How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child, Congolese refugee Sandra Uwiringiyimana recounts life before, during, and after war....
Review of Taking Hold: From Migrant Childhood to Columbia University
Taking Hold: From Migrant Childhood to Columbia University by Francisco Jiménez Middle School, High School Houghton 200 pp. 4/15 978-0-547-63230-8 $16.99 g In the fourth volume of his memoir series (The Circuit, rev. 11/00; Breaking Through, rev. 11/01; Reaching Out, 2008), Jiménez delivers a moving account of his graduate school...
Review of Balcony on the Moon: Coming of Age in Palestine
Balcony on the Moon: Coming of Age in Palestineby Ibtisam BarakatMiddle School, High School Ferguson/Farrar 223 pp.10/16 978-0-374-30251-1 $17.99 gIn this follow-up to her first memoir (Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood), and beginning where that book left off, Barakat leads readers through her adolescent years in the West Bank...
Review of A Year Without Mom
A Year Without Momby Dasha Tolstikova;
illus. by the authorMiddle School Groundwood 168 pp.10/15 978-1-55498-692-7 $19.95e-book ed. 978-155498-693-4 $16.95Tolstikova’s illustrated memoir recounts the time when her mother relocated to America for graduate school and she, twelve years old, was left in the care of her grandparents in Moscow. Through present-tense...
Review of The Inker’s Shadow
The Inker’s Shadowby Allen Say; illus. by the authorIntermediate, Middle School, High School
Scholastic 80 pp.10/15
978-0-545-43776-9 $19.99 gThis “patchwork of memories” (“and memories are unreliable, so I am calling this a work of fiction made of real people and places I knew”) sequel to Drawing from Memory (rev. 9/11)...
Review of The Trouble in Me
The Trouble in Meby Jack GantosMiddle School, High School Farrar 208 pp.9/15 978-0-374-37995-7 $17.99 gBy the summer before eighth grade, young Jack Gantos didn’t think much of himself. He had the “milky physique of a very soft boy” and looked like a “boneless squid.” His “mouth bully” of a father...
Five questions for Sonia Manzano
Photo: Edward PaganSonia Manzano's forty-four-year run as Sesame Street's Maria recently came to a close, but that doesn't mean she's taking it easy. Her newest book, Becoming Maria: Love and Chaos in the South Bronx (Scholastic, 14 years and up), is a memoir in which Manzano recounts her rough childhood...
This is my life
Memoirs capture moments in time, those events that are formative or emblematic or otherwise meaningful for their subjects. Surprising, intimate, cathartic — Brown Girl Dreaming, El Deafo, Becoming Maria (see Randy Ribay’s interview with Sonia Manzano), the new books below, and these recommended by The Horn Book Guide, for example...
Review of Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings: A Memoir
Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings: A Memoirby Margarita EngleMiddle School Atheneum 195 pp.8/15 978-1-4814-3522-2 $17.99 ge-book ed. 978-1-4814-3524-6 $10.99Well known for her portrayals of historic Cubans in verse novels such as The Surrender Tree (rev. 7/08) and The Poet Slave of Cuba (rev. 7/06), Engle explores her own past...
From The Guide: YA Memoirs
Adolescence is a time of transition that for many teens is characterized by hurdles big and small. These new memoirs, written by and/or for young adults, and all recommended by The Horn Book Guide, offer teenage readers real-life stories of hardship and hard-won triumph.—Katrina HedeenAssociate Editor, The Horn Book GuideAndrews,...
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