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Ackerman, Diane
The Zookeeper's Wife
The true story of how the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands by smuggling Jews into the empty animal cages.
368 p. 2007
Appears on the following book lists:
 Holocaust Stories
At Home Reader July 2008
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Cox, Lynne
Grayson
As she was training for a swim, Cox encountered a baby whale in the open waters.
147 p. 2006
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D'Antonio, Michael
Hershey : Milton S. Hershey's Extraordinary Life of Wealth Empire and Utopian Dreams
The name means chocolate to America and the world, but it also stands for an inspiring man and a uniquely successful experiment in community and capitalism that produced a business empire devoted to a higher purpose. Milton S. Hershey brought affordable milk chocolate to America, creating and then satisfying the chocoholic urges of millions, and pioneering techniques of branding, mass production, and marketing.
305 p. 2006
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Diamond, Cheryl
Model : a Memoir
Told in Cheryl Diamond's own words, this is a riveting, true account of one girl's triumphant rise, disastrous fall, and phoenix-like comeback in one of the hottest and most demanding industries in the world.
357 p. 2008
Appears on the following book lists:
Book Talks Autumn 2008
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Fleischman, Sid
The Trouble Begins at 8 : a Life of Mark Twain in the Wild Wild West
Here, in high style, is the story of a wisecracking adventurer who came of age in the untamed West. Mark Twain was a rebel who surprised himself by becoming the most famous American of his time.
224 p. 2008
Appears on the following book lists:
Biographies
book talks: autumn 2008
Book Talks Autumn 2008
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Flynn, Laura
Swallow the Ocean : a Memoir
The lives of Laura and her sisters changed dramatically and without warning with the onset of their mother's paranoid schizophrenia.
280 p. 2008
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Freedom Writers
The Freedom Writers Diary
150 students keep a diary about their life experiences in Long Beach, California as part of a project to learn about intolerance and misunderstanding.
292 p. 2006
Appears on the following book lists:
Books to Film
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Greenberg, Jan.
Andy Warhol : Prince of Pop
Andy Warhol, the Pittsburgh-bred son of Eastern European immigrants, is well known for his Pop Art masterpieces. But there is more to Warhol than that: he also made films, launched 'Interview' magazine, and forsaw the convergence of art, Hollywood fashion and business as the trend of the future.
193 p. 2004
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Hemphill, Stephanie
Your Own Sylvia : a Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath
Stephanie Hemphill uses verse to interpret the people, events, influences and art that made up the brief life of Sylvia Plath.
261 p. 2007
Appears on the following book lists:
Printz Honor Books
Extraordinary Reads for High Schoolers
Poetry for Teens
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Kamara, Mariatu
The Bite of the Mango
Mariatu was 11 years old when her village in Sierra Leone was attacked by rebel soldiers.
216 p. 2008
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Kidder, Tracy
Mountains Beyond Mountains
Paul Farmer was brought up in a bus and on a boat, and in medical school found his life's calling: to diagnose and cure infectious diseases and to bring the lifesaving tools of modern medicine to those who need them most.
317 p. 2003
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Kuklin, Susan
No Choirboy : Murder Violence and Teenagers On Death Row
In their own voices--raw and uncensored--inmates sentenced to death as teenagers talk about their lives in prison, and share their thoughts and feelings about how they ended up there. Susan Kuklin also gets inside the system, exploring capital punishment itself and the intricacies and inequities of criminal justice in the United States.
212 p. 2008
Appears on the following book lists:
Quick and Easy
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Lutes, Jason
Houdini : the Handcuff King
Told in graphic novel format with background information at the beginning and end, this follows Houdini on the morning of his handcuffed leap into the frigid Boston River.
88 p. 2007
Appears on the following book lists:
Biographies
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Nelson, Peter
Left for Dead : a Young Man's Search for Justice for the USS Indianapolis
Recalls the sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis at the end of World War II, the navy cover-up and unfair court martial of the ship's captain, and how a young boy helped the survivors set the record straight fifty-five years later.
201 p. 2002
Appears on the following book lists:
War Stories
Discussion Guides - Children's Books
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Partridge, Elizabeth
John Lennon : All I Want is the Truth : a Photographic Biography
The story of one of rock's biggest legends, from his birth during a 1940 World War II air raid on Liverpool, through his turbulent childhood and teen years, to his celebrated life writing, recording, and performing with the Beatles and beyond.
232 p. 2005
Appears on the following book lists:
Printz Honor Books
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Partridge, Elizabeth
Restless Spirit : the Life and Work of Dorothea Lange
A biography of Dorothea Lange, whose photographs of migrant workers, Japanese American internees, and rural poverty helped bring about important social reforms.
122 p. 1998
Appears on the following book lists:
Jane Addams Peace Award for Older Readers honor books
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Rhodes-Courter, Ashley
Three Little Words : a Memoir
Ashley spent nine years in foster care after being taken away from her mother. She endured many caseworkers, moving from school to school and manipulative, humiliating and abusive treatment from one foster family. See how she survives and eventually thrives against the odds.
304 p. 2008
Appears on the following book lists:
A Child Called It
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Shields, Charles J.
I Am Scout : a Biography of Harper Lee
This biography tells the story of how Harper Lee struggled to become an author and created one of the most popular novels of the 20th century.
246 p. 2008
Appears on the following book lists:
Biographies
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Tammet, Daniel
Born On a Blue Day : Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant : a Memoir
Traces the inspiring story of an autistic savant with genius-level mathematical talents, describing how he was eschewed by his classmates in spite of his near-photographic memory and super-human capacity for math and language, in a firsthand account that offers insight into how he experiences the world.
226 p. 2007
Appears on the following book lists:
Extraordinary Lives
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Youme
Pitch Black
[Anthony will] show you how he lives in the tunnels underneath the New York City subway system -- that is, if you'll let him. Which is exactly what Youme decided she would do one afternoon when she and Anthony began a conversation in the subway about art... Thus began a unique collaboration and conversation between these two artists over the next year, which culminated in Anthony's biography, the graphic novel Pitch Black.
1 v. (unpaged) 2008
Appears on the following book lists:
Graphic Novels: Memoirs and History
Nonfiction
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