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2002, c2001., Juvenile, HarperTempest Call No: HI-INT B MYE Edition: 1st HarperTempest ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: A memoir of the author's childhood in Harlem.
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c2001., HarperCollins Publishers Call No: B Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: From mischievous pranks at home to fighting in the classroom, especially when teased about his speech impediment, Walter was a handful.
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2002., Juvenile, HarperTempest Call No: B Edition: First HarperTempest edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: A memoir of the author's childhood in Harlem.
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1998., Juvenile, Mulberry Books Call No: E CRE Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Visiting Bigmama's house in the country, young Donald Crews finds his relatives full of news and the old place and its surroundings just the same as the year before.
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-- Colin Kaepernick: change the game.2023., Pre-adolescent, Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. Call No: GN KAE Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Colin Kaepernick: Change the Game is an inspiring high school graphic novel memoir for readers 12 and up from celebrated athlete and activist Colin Kaepernick."--
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2004., Delta Trade Paperbacks Call No: 921 MOODY Edition: Delta trade pbk. ed Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Sample text Publisher description
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c2012., Delacorte Press Call No: 973.924 MOO Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The author, a Rhodes scholar and combat veteran, analyzes factors that influenced him as well as another man of the name and from the same neighborhood who was drawn into a life of drugs and crime and ended up serving life in prison, focusing on the influence of relatives, mentors, and social expectations that could have led either of them on different paths.
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c2012., Adolescent, Delacorte Press Call No: CRIME & PUNISHMENT NF MOO Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The author, a Rhodes scholar and combat veteran, analyzes factors that influenced him as well as another man of the name and from the same neighborhood who was drawn into a life of drugs and crime and ended up serving life in prison, focusing on the influence of relatives, mentors, and social expectations that could have led either of them on different paths.
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[2012]., Adolescent, Delacorte Press Call No: B MOORE Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The author, a Rhodes scholar and combat veteran, analyzes factors that influenced him as well as another man of the same name and from the same neighborhood who was drawn into a life of drugs and crime and ended up serving life in prison, focusing on the influence of relatives, mentors, and social expectations that could have led either of them on different paths.
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2012., Juvenile, Little, Brown and Co. Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)View cover image provided by Mackin Summary Note: "Born into slavery, young Booker T. Washington could only dream of learning to read and write. After emancipation, Booker began a five-hundred-mile journey, mostly on foot, to Hampton Institute, taking his first of many steps towards a college degree. When he arrived, he had just fifty cents in his pocket and a dream about to come true."--Amazon.com.
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-- Young Booker T. Washington2012., Juvenile, Little, Brown and Co Call No: B Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Born into slavery, young Booker T. Washington could only dream of learning to read and write. After emancipation, Booker began a five-hundred-mile journey, mostly on foot, to Hampton Institute, taking his first of many steps towards a college degree. When he arrived, he had just fifty cents in his pocket and a dream about to come true."--Amazon.com.
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2020., Oni Press Call No: GRAPHIC NOVELS Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "[A] memoir of artist/author Joel Christian Gill, chronicling his youth and coming of age as a poor Black child in a chaotic southern landscape of rough city streets and foreboding backwoods during the crack cocaine boom of the 1980s. Propelled into a world filled with uncertainty and desperation, young Joel is pushed toward using violence to solve his problems by everyone and everything around him. But fighting doesn't always yield the best results for a confused and sensitive kid who yearns for a better, more fulfilling life than the one he was born into"--Back cover.
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[2022]., Juvenile, Neal Porter Books : Holiday House Call No: 306.874 3 08996073 Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Describes the experiences of an African American girl who is the only Black person in her class and her feelings during discussions about Black history and Civil Rights. When the girl grows up and has a daughter of her own, who also is the only Black girl in her class, she offers encouragement for her when she feels the same thing, telling her the only thing that matters is how she sees herself.
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[2022]., Primary, Holiday House Call No: E THE Edition: First edition. Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: "A mother's account of her experience as the only Black child in school serves as an empowering message to her daughter"--Provided by the publisher.
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By Suskind, Ron1999, c1998., Broadway Books Call No: B Edition: 1st trade paperback Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)
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By Suskind, Ron1999, c1998., Broadway Books Call No: Realistic Fic Suskind Edition: 1st trade paperback ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)
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c2006., Aladdin Call No: B ROB Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Childhood of famous AmericansSummary Note: Relates how, as a child, Jackie Robinson struggled in his brother's shadow.
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1997., Pre-adolescent, Farrar Straus Giroux Call No: jB Tillage TIL Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The son of a North Carolina sharecropper recalls the hard times faced by his family and other African Americans in the first half of the twentieth century and the changes that the civil rights movement helped bring about.
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2003., Juvenile, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Call No: B Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Looks at the early life of Martin Luther King, Jr., as seen through the eyes of his older sister.
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2011, c2010., Spiegel & Grau Trade Paperbacks Call No: 973.924 MOO Edition: Spiegel & Grau trad Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The author, a Rhodes scholar and combat veteran, analyzes the various sociocultural factors that influenced him as well as another man of the same name and from the same neighborhood who was drawn into a life of drugs and crime and ended up serving life in prison, focusing on the influence of relatives, mentors, and social expectations that could have led either of them on different paths.
