Teen Services

*also available as an audiobook

305.567 B637e
Bok, Francis (2003)
Escape from Slavery:
the true story of my ten years in captivity--and my journey to freedom in America

305.8 W556
Gaskins, Pearl Fuyo (1999)
What Are You?: voices of mixed-race young people

305.23 N2363
Nazario, Sonia
Enrique’s Journey (2006)
When Enrique was five, his mother, too poor to feed her children, left Honduras to work in the United States. She was not able to return. After eleven years, Enrique decided he would go find her. He set off alone, with little more than a slip of paper bearing his mother's North Carolina telephone number.

338.761 K159g
Katz, Jon (2000)
Geeks: how two lost boys rode the Internet out of Idaho

610.92 D297p
Davis, Sampson, et al (2002)
The Pact: three young men make a promise and fulfill a dream

616.861 Z136
Zailckas, Koren (2005)
Smashed: story of a drunken girlhood

616. 89 K184gr
Kaysen, Susanna (1994)
Girl, Interrupted
Hospitalized for a mental illness

780.92 L548p2
Partridge, Elizabeth (2005)
John Lennon: all I want is the truth: a photographic biography

780.92 Sh15z
Ardis, Angela (2004)
Inside a Thug's Heart: with original poems and letters by Tupac Shakur
Written by his girlfriend

780.92 W95r
RZA (2005)
The Wu-Tang Manual
“…a curious mix of Eastern philosophy, supreme mathematics, capitalism, and, not least, talent.”

792.8 Ai52t
Tracy, Robert (2004)
Ailey Spirit: the journey of an American dance company

811.54 N335w
Nelson, Marilyn (2005)
A Wreath for Emmett Till
A poetic tribute

796.323 c722c
Colton, Larry (2000)
Counting Coup: a true story of basketball and honor on the Little Big Horn

796.323 M663ay
Yao, Ming (2004)
Yao: a life in two worlds
By the NBA player from China

920 C4975b
Brackett, Virginia (2005)
A Home in the Heart: the story of Sandra Cisneros

920 D719ar
Donofrio, Beverly (1992)
*Riding in Cars with Boys
Coming of age in the sixties.

920 D8913af
Dumas, Firoozeh (2003)
Funny in Farsi: a memoir of growing up Iranian in America

920 D3814ab
Delman, Carmit (2002)
Burnt Bread and Chutney: growing up between cultures: a memoir of an Indian Jewish girl

920 G158ah
Gantos, Jack (2003)
*Hole in My Life
Gantos did jail time before becoming a successful writer.

920 G943af
Guilbault, Rose Castillo (2005)
Farmworker's Daughter: growing up Mexican in America

920 J56ar2
Jiang, Ji-li (1997)
*Red Scarf Girl: a memoir of the Cultural Revolution

920 M15ai
Mace, Nancy (2001)
In the Company of Men: a woman at the Citadel
The citadel is a prestigious military school in South Carolina.

920 M14521apr
McDonald, Janet (1999)
Project Girl
By the author of Spellbound and Brother Hood.

920 M4498aor
Asgedom, Mawi (2002)
Of Beetles & Angels: a boy's remarkable journey from a refugee camp to Harvard
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 Chicago.

920 P285ab
Paulsen, Gary (2000)
The Beet Fields: memories of a sixteenth summer
By the author of Hatchet and many other stories for young adults.

920 R2207ahr
Read, Kirk (2001)
How I Learned To Snap: a small-town coming-out and coming-of-age story

920 R6186aar
Rodriguez, Luis J (1994)
Always Running: la vida loca, gang days in L.A.

920 Sa835ap2
Satrapi, Marjane (2002)
Persepolis
In graphic novel format, she tells the story of her life in Iran during and after the 1979 revolution.

920 So78l
Soto, Gary
*Living Up the Street (1985)
Autobiography of poet and author Gary Soto

920 T1878aL
Tate, Sonsyrea (1997)
Little X: growing up in the Nation of Islam

920 T319b
Tezuka, Osamu (2003-)
Buddha
In graphic novel format

920 W1537ab
Walker, Rebecca (2001)
Black, White and Jewish: autobiography of a shifting self

920 W8326tr2
Wolff, Tobias (1989)
*This Boy’s Life: a memoir
The author shares the details of his traumatic childhood. The movie is good, too.

920 W935b
Wright, Richard (1945)
*Black Boy
The autobiography of the African-American writer, recounting his early years and his harrowing experiences drifting from Nachez to Chicago to Brooklyn.

920.1 D81
Shreve, Susan Richards (2003)
Dream Me Home Safely: writers on growing up in America

940.548 W637n
Wiesel, Elie (1960)
*Night
The story of a teenage boy who survived the Holocaust. “Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never."

956.70443 R524b
Riverbend (2005)
Baghdad Burning: girl blog from Iraq

956.9405 Z42a
Zenatti, Valerie (2005)
When I Was a Soldier
The story of an Israeli soldier

958.1047 Ak22c
Akbar, Said Hyder (2005)
Come Back To Afghanistan: a California teenager’s story