 | Autobiographies for Grades 6–8 |
| For more autobiographies and memoirs, try a catalog search on "Autobiography," "Diaries," "Memoir," or "Personal Narratives." In addition, most youth autobiographies have a blue "Autobiography" sticker on their spine.
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| Y323.1 ST | Students on Strike: Jim Crow, Civil Rights, Brown, and Me (Stokes and other African-American students become part of a lawsuit that led to the end of segregation in America.) |
| Y355 MA | In the Company of Men: A Woman at the Citadel (A young woman becomes the first female graduate of the Citadel, a historically all-male military college.) |
| Y362.1 AB | My Thirteenth Winter: A Memoir (A young woman copes with an undiagnosed learning disability.) |
| Y796.522 PF | Within Reach: My Everest Story (A teen's experiences climbing mountains all over the world, including Mount Everest. ) |
| Y921 Ada | Under the Royal Palms: A Childhood in Cuba (A young girl's experiences in 1940s Cuba.) |
| Y921 Douglas | Grace, Gold & Glory: My Leap of Faith (The story of Gabby Douglas, gold medal winner in women's gymnastics at the 2012 Olympics and first African-American to achieve that distinction.) |
| Y921 Douglass | Escape from Slavery: The Boyhood of Frederick Douglass in His Own Words (A slave grows up to be an abolitionist, journalist, and statesman. ) |
| Y921 Fleischman | The Abracadabra Kid: A Writer's Life (The life of a Newbery award-winning author who set out from childhood to be a magician.) |
| Y921 Frank | The Diary of a Young Girl: Definitive Edition (A Jewish girl's experiences of living in hiding from the Nazis.) |
| Y921 Hamilton | Soul Surfer: A True Story of Faith, Family, and Fighting to Get Back on the Board (A teenage surfer loses her arm in a shark attack, but that doesn't stop her from from returning to the sport she loves.) |
| Y921 Hautzig | The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia (A Polish girl's family is arrested by the Russians in 1941 and shipped to Siberia, where they fight to stay alive.) |
| Y921 Hernandez | They Call Me a Hero: A Memoir of My Youth (A young political intern saves the life of U.S. Representative Gabrielle Gifford after she is shot during the 2011 shooting rampage in Tucson, Arizona.) |
| Y921 Jemison | Find Where the Wind Goes: Moments from My Life (The life story of Dr. Mae Jemison, the first African-American woman to go into space.) |
| Y921 Lang | Lang Lang: Playing with Flying Keys (The difficult and often thrilling early days in China of one of the world's renowned pianists.) |
| Y921 Lewin | I Was a Teenage Professional Wrestler (A teen boy supports himself as a professional wrestler in the 1950s.) |
| Y921 Lu | Double Luck: Memoirs of a Chinese Orphan (A young orphan struggles as he is passed from one relative to another and even sold to a Communist couple.) |
| Y921 MacDonald | Dropping in with Andy Mac: The Life of a Pro Skateboarder (A young man becomes a professional skater.) |
| Y921 Medicine Crow | Counting Coup: Becoming a Crow Chief on the Reservation and Beyond (A young man grows up in two worlds: according to Crow Indian traditions and according to white society's rules.) |
| Y921 Myers | Bad Boy: A Memoir (An award-winning author's turbulent adolescence in Harlem.) |
| Y921 Ohno | A Journey: The Autobiography of Apolo Anton Ohno (A young speed skater rises to Olympic stardom.) |
| Y921 Uchida | The Invisible Thread (A Japanese-American girl and her family are interned in a Nevada concentration camp during World War II.) |
| Y940.53 KO | Surviving the Angel of Death: The Story of a Mengele Twin in Auschwitz (Twin sisters survive the medical experiments of Dr. Josef Mengele in the Auschwitz concentration camp.) |
| Y940.53 LA | Lost Childhood: My Life in a Japanese Prison Camp During World War II (A girl's experiences as a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II.) |
| Y949.703 OG | Basher Five-Two: The True Story of F-16 Fighter Pilot Captain Scott O'Grady (An Air Force captain, shot down over Bosnia, survives on his own in enemy territory.) |
| Y951.05 JI | Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution (A terrifying time in history for a young Chinese girl's family.) |
| Y956.95 BA | Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood (A girl's experiences during the Six-Day War and its aftermath.) |
| Y967.62 LE | Facing the Lion: Growing Up Maasai on the African Savanna (A young boy comes of age in a Kenyan village before traveling to America to attend college.) |
| Y970.1 WE | Rattlesnake Mesa: Stories from A Native American Childhood (A Pawnee girl is sent to live on a Navajo reservation and then a government boarding school.) |
Last Updated: 3/13
