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Children's author-illustrator Tomie De Paola describes his experiences at home and in school when he was a boy.
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In vivid poems that reflect the joy of finding her voice through writing stories, an award-winning author shares what it was like to grow up in the 1960s and 1970s in both the North and the South.
Writer Jacqueline Woodson tells the story of her childhood in free verse.
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Presents the life of the Alabama teenager who played an integral but little-known role in the Montgomery bus strike of 1955-1956, once by refusing to give up a bus seat, and again, by becoming a plaintiff in the landmark civil rights case against the buscompany.
4. El deafo
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The author recounts in graphic novel format her experiences with hearing loss at a young age, including using a bulky hearing aid, learning how to lip read, and determining her "superpower."
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A photobiography of the first wife of a president to have a public life and career of her own.
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An account of the great African American vocalist which considers her life and musical career in the context of the history of civil rights in this country.
An account of the life of a talented and determined artist who left her mark on musical and social history is drawn from Anderson's own writings and other contemporary accounts.
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Follows the lives of the Wright brothers and describes how they developed the first airplane.