Build Your Stack: Books Save Lives
…Memoir by Paige Rawl with Ali Benjamin (2017). Paige Rawl is a midwestern American girl who was born HIV positive. When her HIV status is revealed, in middle school, she…
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Forwarding Literacy in I Am Malala
…year after being shot, Malala Yousafzai published a memoir, I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban. Cowritten with journalist Christina Lamb,…
Build Your Stack: Girl Power! Sharing the Power, Courage, and Voice of Girls
…Also included is a memoir from Jacqueline Woodson, showing how she struggled with reading but refused to allow this to hold back her gift of writing. Billie Jo and Ha…
The Value of Staying Connected through NCTE
…I Am Malala, Malala Yousafzai’s memoir. At the time of introducing this book as a formal unit study, my colleague and I discussed why our school community needed to embrace…
Build Your Stack: Audacious Stories of Human Spaceflight
…and Laurie Caulkholven This memoir tells the remarkable story of Leland Melvin growing up in Virginia, being drafted by the NFL, and becoming an astronaut. Twice he traveled on the…
Build Your Stack: Choosing Titles for a “Reluctant” Male Teen Reader
…. . . guaranteed. Hole in My Life by Jack Gantos In this gripping memoir, author Jack Gantos relates the story of the time he was hired to…
Build Your Stack: Affirming Black Boys outside the Context of Police Brutality
…George M. Johnson Journalist and activist George M. Johnson’s YA memoir-manifesto All Boys Aren’t Blue takes stories from his childhood, adolescence, and college years to show readers how they can…
Quashing Disability Myths through the Lived Experience of Authors: Three New Middle Grade Books
…are treated as—just people. Rolling Warrior, by Judith Heumann with Kristen Joiner Judith Heumann narrates her dramatic memoir for middle grades, Rolling Warrior (2021), written with Kristen Joiner. In the…
It’s All in the Details
…What’s already been written and collected? I focus on direct sources—letters, diaries, memoirs, interviews. This is where intimate, defining details are found. For example, while researching The Family Romanov, I…
From Award to Challenge
…City of Thieves by David Benioff A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah Black Swan Green by David Mitchell Water for Elephants by Sar Gruen…
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