TE 511: Advanced Studies in Children's Literature: Biography / Autobiography / Memoir

Each book on these lists includes the reading level, location, call number and a short summary.

American Presidents

• Barack Obama by Sherman Hollar
• The Presidency of the United States: A Student Companion by Richard M. Pious

Civil Rights Leaders (18th century)

• America's black founders: revolutionary heroes and early leaders by Nancy L. Sanders 

Civil Rights Leaders (19th century)

• America's black founders: revolutionary heroes and early leaders by Nancy L. Sanders 
• With books and bricks: how Booker T. Washington built a school by Suzanne Slade

Civil Rights Leaders (20th century)

• Malcolm X: The Pragmatic Nationalist by Lukmaan Hakim Khan Seekdaur

• Rosa Parks: heroine of the Civil Rights movement by Therese Shea

Collections of Individuals

• Black American Biographies: The Journey of Achievement by Jeff Wallenfeldt and Britannica Educational Publishing Staff
• Remarkable people in history: learn about famous lives from different times and places from the Encyclopedia Britannica

People Living (Lived) with Disabilities

• How to be human: diary of an artistic girl by Florida Frenz
• The William Hoy story by Nancy Churnin

Scientists

• In the garden with Dr. Carver by Susan Grigsby

• Marie Curie : And the Science of Radioactivity by Naomi Pasachoff

Women

• Code name Pauline: memoirs of a World War II special agent by Pearl Witherington Cornioley
• Dolores Huerta Stands Strong: The Woman Who Demanded Justice by Marlene Targ Brill
• Engineering: cool women who design by Vicki V. May and illustrated by Allison Bruce
• Home front girl: a diary of love, literature and growing up in wartime America by Joan Wehlen Morrison
• Malala Yousafzai: Nobel Peace prize-winning champion of female education by Heather Moore Niver
• She takes a stand: 16 fearless activists who have changes the world by Michael Elsohn Ross
• Women heroes of the American Revolution: 20 stories of espionage, sabotage, defiance, and rescue by Susan Carey
• Women of steel and stone: 22 inspirational architects, engineers, and landscape architects by Anna Lewis

Heads of State





• Adolf Hitler by Catherine Ellis
• Alexander Hamilton: the making of America by Teri Kanefield