Six Word Memoirs by Teens

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  • Educated: A Memoir

    • ASIN: 0399590501
    • Brand: Manning
    • Manufacturer: Random House

  • The Boy on the Wooden Box: How the Impossible Became Possible . . . on Schindler's List

    • UPC: 884641071366
    • ASIN: 1442497823
    • ISBN: 1442497823
    • Brand: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
    • Manufacturer: Atheneum Books for Young Readers

    “Much like The Boy In the Striped Pajamas or The Book Thief,” this remarkable memoir from Leon Leyson, one of the youngest children to survive the Holocaust on Oskar Schindler’s list, “brings to readers a story of bravery and the fight for a chance to live” (VOYA).This, the only memoir published by a former Schindler’s list child, perfe... [Read More]

  • The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

    • ASIN: 0316013692
    • ISBN: 9780316013697
    • Brand: Little Brown Young Readers
    • Manufacturer: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

    Bestselling author Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white farm town high school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.Heartbreaking, funny, and beautif... [Read More]

  • The Book Thief

    • ASIN: 0375842209
    • ISBN: 9780375842207
    • Brand: Alfred A. Knopf
    • Manufacturer: Knopf Books for Young Readers

    DON’T MISS BRIDGE OF CLAY, MARKUS ZUSAK’S FIRST NOVEL SINCE THE BOOK THIEF.  The extraordinary #1 New York Times bestseller that is now a major motion picture, Markus Zusak's unforgettable story is about the ability of books to feed the soul.  Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read. When Death ... [Read More]

  • Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two

    • ASIN: 0142405965
    • ISBN: 0142405965
    • Brand: Speak
    • Manufacturer: Speak

    "Readers who choose the book for the attraction of Navajo code talking and the heat of battle will come away with more than they ever expected to find."—Booklist, starred review Throughout World War II, in the conflict fought against Japan, Navajo code talkers were a crucial part of the U.S. effort, sending messages back and forth in an unbreakab... [Read More]

  • The Finest Hours (Young Readers Edition): The True Story of a Heroic Sea Rescue (True Rescue Series)

    • ASIN: 1250044235
    • ISBN: 1250044235
    • Brand: Tougias Michael J
    • Manufacturer: Square Fish

    This adaptation for young readers of The Finest Hours: The True Story of the US Coast Guard's Most Daring Sea Rescue by Michael J. Tougias and Casey Sherman tells the story of the shipwreck of two oil tankers and the harrowing Coast Guard rescue when four men in a tiny lifeboat overcame insurmountable odds and saved more than 30 stranded sailors. N... [Read More]

  • Saving Sadie: How a Dog That No One Wanted Inspired the World

    • ASIN: B01N2ZOFPH
    • Manufacturer: Citadel Press

    “An uplifting story with tremendous heart. I couldn't put it down.”—Helen Brown Joal Derse Dauer was donating blankets at a local no-kill shelter when an injured and despondent dog caught her eye. With three “fur babies” already at home, Joal wasn’t looking to adopt another dog. But there was something special about Sadie . . . With p... [Read More]

  • Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

    • ASIN: 0312561288
    • ISBN: 9780312561284
    • Brand: Square Fish
    • Manufacturer: Square Fish

    If Naomi had picked tails, she would have won the coin toss.She wouldn't have had to go back for the yearbook camera, and she wouldn't have hit her head on the steps.She wouldn't have woken up in an ambulance with amnesia.She certainly would have remembered her boyfriend, Ace. She might even have remembered why she fell in love with him in the firs... [Read More]

  • Kisses from Katie: A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption

    • UPC: 001451612095
    • ASIN: 1451612095
    • ISBN: 9781451612097
    • Brand: Howard Books
    • Manufacturer: Howard Books

    The New York Times bestselling account of a courageous eighteen-year-old from Nashville who gave up every comfort and convenience to become the adoptive mother to thirteen girls in Uganda.What would cause an eighteen-year-old senior class president and homecoming queen from Nashville, Tennessee, to disobey and disappoint her parents by forgoing col... [Read More]

  • Courage and Grace: A Jewish Family's Holocaust Survival Story (World War II Memoir)

    • ASIN: B07SJ5VQPS

    An unbelievable survival story in the face of the HolocaustWhile the Holocaust rages, two very young brothers, Yoseph and Yitzhak, adopt false Christian identities and hide in the Aryan side of Polish cities and countryside.Their lives, as well as the lives of their parents, swing wildly between the terror of being apprehended by the cruel regime a... [Read More]

  • The Best Advice in Six Words: Writers Famous and Obscure on Love, Sex, Money, Friendship, Family, Work, and Much More (Six-word Memoir)

    • ASIN: 1250067014
    • ISBN: 1250067014
    • Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin

    The creator of the bestselling, short-form Six-Word Memoir series, Larry Smith, is back again with THE BEST ADVICE IN SIX WORDS, a poignant collection of universal wisdom, life lessons, and caution thrown to the wind. With 1,000 contributions from celebrities like Molly Ringwald, Whoopi Goldberg, Lemony Snicket, and Gary Shteyngart, as well as ever... [Read More]

  • Farewell to Manzanar

    • ASIN: 1328742113
    • ISBN: 1328742113
    • Manufacturer: Young Readers Paperback

    During World War II a community called Manzanar was created in the high mountain desert country of California. Its purpose was to house thousands of Japanese Americans. Among them was the Wakatsuki family, who were ordered to leave their fishing business in Long Beach and take with them only the belongings they could carry. Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston... [Read More]

  • The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope (P.S.)

    • ASIN: 0061730335
    • ISBN: 0061730335
    • Brand: Harper Perennial
    • Manufacturer: William Morrow

    Now a Netflix Film, Starring and Directed by Chiwetel Ejiofor of 12 Years a SlaveWilliam Kamkwamba was born in Malawi, a country where magic ruled and modern science was mystery. It was also a land withered by drought and hunger. But William had read about windmills, and he dreamed of building one that would bring to his small village a set of luxu... [Read More]

  • A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

    • ASIN: 0374531269
    • ISBN: 9780374531263
    • Brand: Sarah Crichton Books
    • Manufacturer: Sarah Crichton Books

    This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Children have become soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them. What is war like through the eyes of a child soldier? How does one beco... [Read More]

  • A Piece of Cake: A Memoir

    • ASIN: 1400052297
    • ISBN: 1400052297
    • Brand: Brand: Broadway Books
    • Manufacturer: Broadway Books

    There are shelves of memoirs about overcoming the death of a parent, childhood abuse, rape, drug addiction, miscarriage, alcoholism, hustling, gangbanging, near-death injuries, drug dealing, prostitution, or homelessness. Cupcake Brown survived all these things before she’d even turned twenty. And that’s when things got interesting... You have... [Read More]

  • Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir By One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII

    • ASIN: 0425247856
    • ISBN: 0425247856
    • Manufacturer: Dutton Caliber

    The first and only memoir by one of the original Navajo code talkers of WWII.His name wasn’t Chester Nez. That was the English name he was assigned in kindergarten. And in boarding school at Fort Defiance, he was punished for speaking his native language, as the teachers sought to rid him of his culture and traditions. But discrimination didn’t... [Read More]

  • Through the Fire: Based on a True Story About a Young Girl That Was Maliciously Burned in a House Fire

    • ASIN: 152078080X
    • ISBN: 152078080X
    • Manufacturer: Independently published

    A childhood tragedy cost her more than she could've imagined, but it also gave a gift far worth more than she could've hoped for... Theresa holds nothing back as she retraces her traumatic childhood in the countryside of North Carolina in one of the most inspirational books you’ve read yet. Between unstable, alcoholic parents and the ever-present... [Read More]

  • The Girl Who Lived: A Thrilling Suspense Novel

    • ASIN: 1683993039
    • ISBN: 1683993039
    • Manufacturer: Greyson Media Associates

    Ten years ago, four people were brutally murdered. One girl lived.No one believes her story.The police think she's crazy.Her therapist thinks she's suicidal.Everyone else thinks she's a dangerous drunk.They're all right--but did she see the killer?As the anniversary of the murders approaches, Faith Winters is released from the psychiatric hospital ... [Read More]

  • Walk to Beautiful: The Power of Love and a Homeless Kid Who Found the Way

    • ASIN: 071807730X
    • ISBN: 071807730X
    • Brand: HarperCollins Christian Pub.
    • Manufacturer: Thomas Nelson

    * NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER* Imagine yourself a thirteen-year-old hundreds of miles away from home, in a strange city, and your mom leaves you at a bus station parking lot and drives off into the night with her lover.That’s the real life story of country music star Jimmy Wayne. It’s a miracle that Jimmy survived being hungry and homeless, boun... [Read More]

  • Addiction

    • ASIN: B07FNLYHHX
    • Manufacturer: Margaret McHeyzer

    New York Times Bestselling Author of Ugly and Mistrust.Meth, crank, ice, glass, fire, tina, chalk, crystal or crystal meth.Whatever you call it, it’s the same thing. Addictive.Drugs ruin people’s lives. I should know, they destroyed mine. I’m Hannah and I got hooked on ice. What started as a trickle, ended with a tsunami washing everything aw... [Read More]

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