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81) Scott Fitzgerald
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Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
Follows the life of F. Scott Fitzgerald, from his early years in St. Paul and at Princeton to New York in the twenties, the French Riviera, Baltimore, and finally Hollywood. Andrew Turnbull tells the story behind F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise, revised and finally published when he was twenty-four, making him instantly famous, and his tender love affair with Zelda Sayre, from their glittering early life to the years Zelda spent in and...
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After three acclaimed novels, Gary Shteyngart turns to memoir in a candid, witty, deeply poignant account of his life so far. Shteyngart shares his American immigrant experience, moving back and forth through time and memory with self-deprecating humor, moving insights, and literary bravado. The result is a resonant story of family and belonging that feels epic and intimate and distinctly his own.
83) Dr. Seuss
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A biography of American author Dr. Seuss, whose first published book was "And to think that I saw it on Mulberry Street," plus a chapter of creative writing tips.
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The author melds personal history with frank biological data about every stage of life, creating an "autobiography about my body" that seeks meaning in death, but moreover, life. Shields filters his frank--and usually foreboding--data through his own experience as a 51-year-old father with burgeoning back pain, contrasting his own gloomy tendencies with the defiant perspective of his own 97-year-old father, a man who has waged a lifelong, urgent battle...
86) Bigmama's
Author
Pub. Date
[1991]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Appears on list
Description
Visiting Bigmama's house in the country, young Donald Crews finds his relatives full of news and the old place and its surroundings just the same as the year before.
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Pub. Date
2021.
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"Adventurer, showman, charlatan, best-selling author: Ned Buntline was all of these things and more, including one of the most colorful characters in American history. Buntline, whose real name was Edward Zane Carroll Judson (he called himself Colonel Judson, but the rank was as fictional as the pseudonym), produced hundreds of dime novels during the second half of the 19th century and was the leading author of popular fiction during this period....
88) Dr. Seuss
Author
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 6
Description
A biography of the famous author of children's books.
89) Edgar Allan Poe
Author
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 6
Description
An illustrated biography of nineteenth-century American author Edgar Allan Poe that includes a chronology and a selected bibliography.
90) The Snow Leopard
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The author discusses his experiences on a 250-mile journey through the Himalaya Mountains in 1973 and his attempts to locate the Lama of Shey in an isolated monastery. He was accompanied by naturalist George Schaller, who was searching for the the snow leopard in the Dolpo region on the Tibetan Plateau. First published in 1978.
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"I've struck it!" Mark Twain wrote in a 1904 letter to a friend. "And I will give it away—to you. You will never know how much enjoyment you have lost until you get to dictating your autobiography."
Thus, after dozens of false starts and hundreds of pages, Twain embarked on his "Final (and Right) Plan" for telling the story of his life. His innovative notion—to "talk only about the thing which interests you for the moment"—meant
...Author
Pub. Date
[1993]
Description
In this affirmative new journal, May Sarton describes both hardships and joys in the daily round - physical struggles counterbalanced by the satisfactions of friendship, nature, growing fame, and a return to writing poetry. Sarton writes perceptively of how age affects her; the way small things take longer and tire more, how the body often hurts and feels fragile and scared. Other days energy returns, spirits lift, projects abound. She returns to...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 21
Appears on list
Description
Traces the personal crisis the author endured after the death of her mother and a painful divorce, which prompted her ambition to undertake a dangerous 1,100-mile solo hike that both drove her to rock bottom and helped her to heal.
96) El Deafo
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 2
Description
The author recounts in graphic novel format her experiences with hearing loss at a young age, including using a bulky hearing aid, learning how to lip read, and determining her "superpower."
"Going to school and making new friends can be tough. But going to school and making new friends while wearing a bulky hearing aid strapped to your chest? That requires superpowers! In this funny, poignant graphic novel memoir, author/illustrator Cece Bell chronicles...
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2023.
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"A Mystery of Mysteries is a brilliant biography of Edgar Allan Poe that examines the renowned author's life through the prism of his mysterious death and its many possible causes. It is a moment shrouded in horror and mystery. Edgar Allan Poe died on October 7, 1849, at just forty, in a painful, utterly bizarre manner that would not have been out of place in one of his own tales of terror. What was the cause of his untimely death, and what happened...
99) Dr. Seuss
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A brief biography of the author of such books as "Green Eggs and Ham" and "The Cat in the Hat."
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 16
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A continuation of the memoir "A Girl Named Zippy" follows the story of her mother, Delonda, who reinvents her life by returning to college and losing fifty pounds, while Zippy continues to work out the dynamic of their nuclear family.
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