Patti Smith tells real and imagined stories from her childhood

Little Tree is an 8-year-old Cherokee boy, who, during the time of the depression, loses his parents and goes to live with his mountain dwelling grandparents and learn the wisdom of the Cherokee way of life.

This spans seventeen years -- from 1869 when little "Teedie" is ten, to 1886, when he returns from the west a "real life cowboy" to puck up the pieces of a shattered life and begin anew, a grown man, whole in body and spirit.

"[In this biography, author Gary Paulsen portrays a series of life-altering moments from his turbulent childhood.] If not for his summer escape from a shockingly neglectful Chicago upbringing to a North Woods homestead at age five, there never would have been a Hatchet. Without the encouragement of the librarian who handed him his first book at age thirteen, he may never have become a reader. And without his desperate teenage enlistment in the Army,...

For the first time, Harvey Pekar tells the story of his childhood as the son of Jewish immigrants. Through his tumultous adolescence as a neighborhood tough guy on the streets of Cleveland, his disastrous four-week stint in the Navy and the earliest stages of his life as a writer this is the universal tale of a young man's search for himself through the frustrations, redemptions and complexities of ordinary life.

Two kids with the same name lived in the same decaying city. One went on to be a Rhodes Scholar, decorated combat veteran, White House Fellow, and business leader. The other is serving a life sentence in prison. Here is the story of two boys and the journey of a generation. In December 2000, the Baltimore Sun ran a small piece about Wes Moore, a local student who had just received a Rhodes Scholarship. The same paper also ran a series of articles...

"Firsthand account of a Holocaust survivor who knew Anne Frank."--Kirkusreviews.com.

A childhood biography of the Indian nationalist leader who followed a doctrine of nonviolent civil disobedience.

Chronicles the teen years of the poet/musician on the streets of New York, where he shot baskets with some of the best playground stars and heroin with street characters.