A fictionalized account of how an eleven-year-old girl, Elizabeth "Libba" Cotten, saved to buy her first guitar and composed the popular folksong "Freight Train.".
Young Betsy Ross is upset when her brother tells her that she cannot make furniture because she is a girl, but her mother teaches her that she can still do important things.
A biography of Sacagawea, the Shoshoni who served as guide for the Lewis and Clark Expedition, including her childhood in a Shoshoni village, capture by Hidatsas, and reunion with her brother. Includes sidebars, activities, a timeline, and a map.
Young Sacagawea wants to be as brave as her brother. She has a chance to prove herself when she and her grandmother encounter a rattlesnake while gathering wood. A timeline of her life describes her role in the famous Lewis and Clark Expedition.
Relates events in the childhood of architect Secundino Fernandez, who left his beloved Havana, Cuba, with his parents, first to spend a year in Spain, and later to move to New York City.
Jacobsen's memoir focusing on the series of families that helped to hide her family from the Nazis during the Holocaust. The illustrations are collages that include the author's family photos taken during her childhood.
French writer and film producer Mich?le Halberstadt recounts the events that surrounded the death of her beloved grandfather when she was twelve years old and led to her suicide attempt and how that made her discover a verve for life and a thirst for success and happiness.
A memoir of the author's childhood growing up poor and homeless but eventually earning a scholarship to college, and offers advice to the reader on how to reach your full potential.
Follows the journey of fifteen-year-old Oksana Marafioti as she tries to find her place in the United States after living as a Gypsy in Russia, and has to overcome certain barriers in order to feel like she belongs in her new home.
