Memoir

Isoke Titilayo Nia All Write Literacy Consultants Picture books

Juan Felipe Herrera The Upside Down boy Ann Grifalconi Kinda Blue Dayal Kaur Khalsa Tales of a Gambling Grandmother* Gavin Curtis The Bat Boy and His Violin James Stevenson Higher on the Door Toby Tobias Pot Luck Jacqueline Woodson We Had a Picnic This Sunday Past

Sweet Sweet Memory* Patricia Polacco Chicken Sunday

Thundercake

My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother

My Ol Man Eloise Greenfield William and the Good Old Days*

She Come Bringing Me that Little Baby Girl* Eric Velasquez Grandma’s Records Toyomi Igus The Two Mrs. Gibsons Cynthia Rylant When I Was Young In The Mountains

The Relatives Came

A Country Christmas Dinah Johnson Quinnie Blue Angela Johnson One of Three

When I am Old With You Grandpa

Down the Winding Road

The Leaving Morning

The Wedding Judy Blume The Pain and the Great One Vera B. Williams A Chair For My Mother Donald Crews Big Mamas

Short Cut Janet S. Wong The Trip Back Home Camille Yarbrough Cornrows Jeannette Caines Daddy Isoke Titilayo Nia 1 Digging Deep: Genre Study in the Writing Workshop Going Home Nicholasa Mohr My Mama Had a Dancing Heart Libba Moore Gray Hard to be Six Arnold Adoff Coat of Many Colors Dolly Parton When I Was Little* Jamie Lee Curtis Tell Me Again about the Night I was Born Tar Beach Faith Ringgold A Christmas Memory Truman Capote A Thanksgiving Visitor No Mirrors in My Nana’s House Yasaye M. Barnwell The Hickory Chair Lisa Rowe Fraustino

* books that we are labeling Memoire - a unique category of picture books that are crafted as memoir, but we’re not quite sure they are truly that writer’s life

Novels and Short Stories

Sweet Summer Growing Up With and Without My Dad Bebe Moore Campbell My Father’s Summers Kathi Appelt Bad Boy Walter Dean Myers Finding Fish Antwone Fisher Willow Weep for Me Meri Nana-Ama Danquah stories from El Barrio Piri Thomas Persepolis Marjane Satrapi But I’ll be Back Again Cynthia Rylant Looking Back Lois Lowry Bowman’s Store: A Journey to Myself Joseph Bruchac The Lost Garden Laurence Yep How I Came To Be a Writer Phyllis Naylor The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child Francisco Jimenez Breaking Through Looking Back: A Book of Memories Woodsong Lois Lowry My Life in Dog Years Gary Paulsen Eastern Sun, Winter Moon 26 Fairmount Avenue Here We All Are On My Way Tomie dePaola What a Year Things Will Never Be the Same The Moon and I Betsy Byars Boy: Tales of a Childhood Roald Dahl Little by Little Jean Little Homesick: My Own Story Jean Fritz A Girl From Yamhill: A Memoir Beverly Clearly The Gold Cadillac Mildred Taylor Raising Fences: A Black Man’s Love Story Michael Datcher An American Childhood Annie Dillard Kitchen Priviledges Mary Higgins Clark Memory’s Tatoo Antonio Martorell Dream Me home Marian Wright Edleman In My Own Words: Growing Up Inside the Sanctuary of My Imagination Isoke Titilayo Nia 2 Digging Deep: Genre Study in the Writing Workshop In My Mama’s Kitchen Nicholasa Mohr Flora and Tiger: 19 very short stories from my life Jerdine Nolen Childtimes Eric Carle Walking the Log: Memories of a Southern Childhood Eloise Greenfield Marshfield Dreams Bessie Nickens In My Family (En Mi Familia) Ralph Fletcher Words to My Life’s Song Carmen Lomas Garza Ashley Bryan My Thirteenth Winter: A Memoir I have Lived a Thousand Years Samantha Abeel No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War Livia Bitton-Jackson Farewell to Manzanar Anita Lobel Jeanne Wakasuki & James Houston

Go Tell It On the Mountain Ake: Years of Childhood James Baldwin Angela’s Ashes Wole Soyinka One Writer’s Beginning Frank McCourt I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Eudora Welty Among the White Moon Faces: Maya Angelou An Asian-American Memoir of Homelands Shirley Geok-Lin Lim Education of a Wandering Man Colored People Louis L’Amour When I Was Puerto Rican Henry Louis Gates Jr. Esmeralda Paula Santiago Lost In Translation Isabel Allende Two or Three Things I Know for Sure Eva Hoffman An Aroma of Coffee Dorothy Allison Living Up the Street Dany Laferriere The Attic : Memoir of a Chinese Landlord’s Son Gary Soto Parallel Time: Growing Up in Black and White Guan Long Cao Brent Staples

Series Published by Richard C. Owen, Katonah, Best Wishes New York The Writing Bug Cynthia Rylant Can You Imagine Lee Bennett Hopkins Patricia Mc (this series contains several other titles...) Kissack

Memoir in other than pure narrative form

Waiting to Waltz (poetry) Soda Jerk Cynthia Rylant Baseball, Snakes, and Summer Squash Children of Long Ago Donald Graves The Other Side: Shorter Poems Lessie Jones Little Secrets of a Small Brother Angela Johnson Been To Yesterdays Richard Margolis from the Bellybutton of the Moon Del Ombligo de la Luna Lee Bennett Hopkins Francisco X. Learning to Swim Alarcon Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969- 1980 Ann Turner Moving Day Lucille Clifton Connecting Dots: Poems of My Journey Ralph fletcher David Harrison

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“Grandma’s Hands” (song) “Coat of Many Colors” Bill Withers “No Mirrors in My Nana’s House” Dolly Parton Ysaye M. Barnwell (Sweet Honey in The Rock)

Growing Up Cuban (audio story) without a splash Carmen Agra Deedy Marni Gillard

Memoir as fiction** (or Memoir in other than the “I” voice, or Memoir in Third Person)

Thank you, Mr. Falker Patricia Polacco The Art Lesson Watch Out For Chicken Feet In Your Soup Tomie de Paola Nana Upstairs, Nana Downstairs First One Foot, Now The Other

Sitti’s Secrets* Naomi Shihab Nye

**writers who choose to tell their stories as if they were the stories of another person

Books from Which To Learn

Writing the Memoir: A practical guide to the craft, the personal challenges, and ethical dilemmas of writing your true stories Judith Barrington

Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir Writing Toward Home William Zinsser What a Writer Needs Georgia Heard But that’s another Story Ralph Fletcher edited by Sandy Asher

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