personal narratives

A veteran of Vietnam describes his experiences in the war and his re-entry into American society after he was paralyzed.

A thirteen-year-old Dutch-Jewish girl records her impressions of the two years she and seven others spent hiding from the Nazis before they were discovered and taken to concentration camps. Includes entries previously omitted.

Presents essays and reminiscences ranging from childhood in Mexico City to memorable characters from other times and cultures.

This book describes Baghdad pups that soldiers have spotted in Iraq and the program called Operation Baghdad Pups that finds ways to send the dogs to the soldiers' homes in America.

Popular children's writers discuss the impressions and feelings they had while growing up during World War II.

Nine-year-old Piri describes the bewilderment of being a Jewish child during the 1939-1944 German occupation of her hometown (then in Hungary and now in the Ukraine) and relates the ordeal of trying to survive in the ghetto.

The author's reminiscences about her childhood in Germany, years of which were spent in a Nazi concentration camp. Includes several of her original poems.

The author describes her life with autism and how she has used her strong visual sensibility to cope with it.

Examines the lives of Jewish children and teens in the ghettos during the Holocaust, including the formation of the ghettos, the miserable conditions, hard labor, and the deportations to camps.