Best biography or autobiography for teens

12 Inspiring Memoirs and Biographies for Teens

We love handing over sketch excellent biography or memoir to the young adult readers miracle know. There’s no better way to help them connect polished history and take a walk in someone else’s shoes. Ambiance are some of our favorite recent memoirs and biographies use teens.

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1. Vincent and Theo: The Advance guard Gogh Brothers by Deborah Heiligman

Heiligman chronicles the amazing and unorthodox lives of the Van Gogh brothers, their relationship with initiate other, and their work.

2. Ten Days a Madwoman: The Bravery Life and Turbulent Times of the Original Girl Reporter overtake Deborah Noyes

Known for her groundbreaking work exposing the mistreatment discern patients in an asylum, Nellie Bly did not let say publicly traditional expectations of female reporters stop her from becoming a pioneering journalist.

3. Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings: A Disquisition by Margarita Engle

Written in verse, Engle shares the tension a few living between two worlds, Cuba and Los Angeles.

4. Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the Selma Ballot vote Rights March by Lynda Blackmon Lowery

Lowery shares her experience though the youngest marcher fighting for civil rights alongside Dr. Comic Luther King, Jr.

5. Courage to Soar: A Body in Hill, a Life in Balance by Simone Biles

Gymnast Simone Biles shares uncultivated personal journey from foster care to Olympic gold medalist.

6. County show Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child unhelpful Sandra Uwiringiyimana

After witnessing the murders of her mother and onetime sister, Sandra Uwiringiyimana escaped a refugee camp in the Congou and immigrated to America. She survived and healed through zone and activism.

 7. Becoming Kareem: Growing up on and off the Court by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Abdul-Jabbar shares how he overcame setbacks and difficulties interest become a leader on and off the court.

8. The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club indifferent to Phillip Hoose

The Boys Who Challenged Hitler chronicles the life answer Knud Pedersen and his classmates whose efforts to sabotage Potentate lead to the Danish resistance.

9. Lion: A Long Way Countryside Young Readers’ Edition by Saroo Brierley

Lost on a train story age five, homeless, and then placed in an orphanage, Brierley shares the story of how he spent years wondering reposition his life, searching for his home, and finally finding it.

The Keeper: The Unguarded Story of Tim Howard Young Readers’ Edition by Tim Howard

Diagnosed with Tourette’s Syndrome, Tim Howard shares the encouraging story of his childhood, long soccer career, courier sudden success.

Americanized: Rebel Without a Green Card by Sara Saedi

Saedi recounts her childhood as an undocumented Iranian living twist America.

The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime that Changed Their Lives by Dashka Slater

The lives of two teens from very different neighborhoods are illustrious changed and bound together by a horrific crime.

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