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The Outsiders
Author: S. E. Hinton
ISBN-10: 0440967694
ISBN-13: 9780440967699
Published: 1968-10-15
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
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Ponyboy is 14 years old, tough and confused, yet sensitive beneath his bold front. Since his parents' deaths, his loyalties have been to his brothers and his gang, the rough boys from the wrong side of the tracks. When his best friend kills a member of a rival gang, a nightmare of violence begins and quickly envelops Ponyboy in a turbulent chain of events.
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Go Ask Alice
Author: James Jennings
ISBN-10: 0380005239
ISBN-13: 9780380005239
Published: 1976-03
Publisher: Avon Books
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Book Description:
The strong, painfully honest, nakedly candid and true story of a 15-year-old girl's experiences with drugs. Winner of the Christopher Award. "An extraordinary work . . . a document of horrifying reality."--The New York Times.
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I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up in the Holocaust
Author: Livia Bitton-Jackson
ISBN-10: 0689810229
ISBN-13: 9780689810220
Published: 1997-04-01
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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The author, who was imprisoned in Auschwitz as a teenager, describes her terrible experiences as one of the camp's few adolescent inmates and the miraculous twists of fates that enabled her to survive.
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Boy: Tales of Childhood
Author: Roald Dahl
ISBN-10: 0140318909
ISBN-13: 9780140318906
Published: 1984
Publisher: Puffin
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Book Description:
Many remarkable things did happen to Roald Dahl when he was a boy, and maybe that's where some of the marvellous ideas for his books came from. This is the story of his own childhood. The story is continued in "Going Solo".
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Mao's Last Dancer
Author: Li Cunxin
ISBN-10: 0802797792
ISBN-13: 9780802797797
Published: 2008-07-22
Publisher: Walker Childrens
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Book Description:
At the age of eleven, Li Cunxin was one of the privileged few selected to serve in Chairman Mao’s Cultural Revolution by studying at the Beijing Dance Academy. Having known bitter poverty in his rural China home, ballet would be his family’s best chance for a better future. From one hardship to another, Cunxin demonstrated perseverance and an appetite for success that led him to be chosen as one of the first two people to leave Mao’s China and go to American to dance on a special cultural exchange. But life in the U.S. was nothing like his communist indoctrination had led him to believe. Ultimately, he defected to the west in a dramatic media storm, and went on to dance with the Houston Ballet for sixteen years. This inspiring story of passion, resilience, and a family’s love captures the harsh reality of life in Mao’s communist China and the exciting world of professional dance. This compelling memoir includes photos documenting Li’s extraordinary life.
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Chinese Cinderella: The true story of an unwanted daughter
Author: Adeline Yen Mah
ISBN-10: 0385327072
ISBN-13: 9780385327077
Published: 1999-09-07
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
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A riveting memoir of a girl's painful coming-of-age in a wealthy Chinese family during the 1940s.A Chinese proverb says, "Falling leaves return to their roots." In Chinese Cinderella, Adeline Yen Mah returns to her roots to tell the story of her painful childhood and her ultimate triumph and courage in the face of despair. Adeline's affluent, powerful family considers her bad luck after her mother dies giving birth to her. Life does not get any easier when her father remarries. She and her siblings are subjected to the disdain of her stepmother, while her stepbrother and stepsister are spoiled. Although Adeline wins prizes at school, they are not enough to compensate for what she really yearns for -- the love and understanding of her family.Following the success of the critically acclaimed adult bestseller Falling Leaves, this memoir is a moving telling of the classic Cinderella story, with Adeline Yen Mah providing her own courageous voice.
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Breaking Through
Author: Francisco Jimenez
ISBN-10: 0618342486
ISBN-13: 9780618342488
Published: 2002-10-01
Publisher: Sandpiper
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Book Description:
At the age of fourteen, Francisco Jiménez, together with his older brother Roberto and his mother, are caught by la migra. Forced to leave their home, the entire family travels all night for twenty hours by bus, arriving at the U.S. and Mexican border in Nogales, Arizona. In the months and years that follow, Francisco, his mother and father, and his seven brothers and sister not only struggle to keep their family together, but also face crushing poverty, long hours of labor, and blatant prejudice. How they sustain their hope, their goodheartedness, and tenacity is revealed in this moving sequel to The Circuit. Without bitterness or sentimentality, Francisco Jiménez finishes telling the story of his youth.
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Black Pioneers of Science and Invention (Odyssey Books)
Author: Louis Haber
ISBN-10: 1417647728
ISBN-13: 9781417647729
Published: 1992-01
Publisher: San Val
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Book Description:
Traces the lives of black scientists and inventors who have made significant contributions in the various fields of science and industry.
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