125 Books We Love for Teens

9 Books Found

Filtered by 'Biography & Memoir'
  • Being Jazz: My Life As a (Transgender) Teen

    At the age of five, with her parents' support, Jazz transitioned to life as a girl. A year later, she shared her journey with Barbara Walters. Jazz reflects on these public experiences and how they have helped shape mainstream attitudes toward the trans community.
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  • The Diary of a Young Girl

    In 1942, with Nazis occupying Holland, a 13-year-old Jewish girl and her family fled their home in Amsterdam and went into hiding. Anne kept a diary for the next two years, until her family's whereabouts were betrayed to the Gestapo.
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  • Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings

    Illustrated by Edel Rodriguez | An account of the first 14 years of the author's life in poems, telling of her time spent between her mother's native Cuba and her home in Los Angeles, until the revolution in Cuba dramatically altered relations between the two countries she loves.
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  • Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

    A darkly funny family portrait detailing the author's childhood and her relationship with her father, a high school English teacher and funeral home director who is also secretly gay.
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  • How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child

    The author shares the story of her survival during the Gatumba massacre, despite losing her mother and sister, and how after moving to America she found healing through art and activism.
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  • March (trilogy)

    Illustrated by Nate Powell | A first-hand account of the author's lifelong struggle for civil and human rights spanning his youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr., and the birth of the Nashville Student Movement.
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  • Maus: A Survivor's Tale

    An account of the chilling experiences of the author's father during the Holocaust, with Jews drawn as wide-eyed mice and Nazis as menacing cats.
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  • Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood

    The great-granddaughter of Iran's last emperor and the daughter of ardent Marxists describes growing up in Tehran in a country plagued by political upheaval and vast contradictions between public and private life.
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  • Vincent & Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers

    Examines the relationship between brothers Theo and Vincent van Gogh, showing how Theo supported the painter throughout his creative and interpersonal struggles.
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