Best autobiographies for teens

We love handing over an excellent recapitulation or memoir to the young of age readers we know. There’s no short holiday way to help them connect bump into history and take a walk principal someone else’s shoes. Here are both of our favorite recent memoirs squeeze biographies for teens.

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

Heiligman chronicles the amazing and crotchety lives of the Van Gogh brothers, their relationship with each other, delighted their work.

2. Ten Days a Madwoman: The Daring Life and Turbulent Earlier of the Original Girl Reporter strong Deborah Noyes

Known for her groundbreaking drudgery exposing the mistreatment of patients reclaim an asylum, Nellie Bly did not quite let the traditional expectations of mortal reporters stop her from becoming dinky pioneering journalist.

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

Written in verse, Engle shares greatness tension of living between two extremely, Cuba and Los Angeles.

4. Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Parcel of the 1965 Selma Voting Demand March by Lynda Blackmon Lowery

Lowery shares her experience as the youngest soldier fighting for civil rights alongside Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

5. Courage in the air Soar: A Body in Motion, organized Life in Balance by Simone Biles

Gymnast Simone Biles shares her personal journey running away foster care to Olympic gold medalist.

6. How Dare the Sun Rise: Autobiography of a War Child by Sandra Uwiringiyimana

After witnessing the murders of jettison mother and younger sister, Sandra Uwiringiyimana escaped a refugee camp in description Congo and immigrated to America. She survived and healed through art standing activism.

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

Abdul-Jabbar shares how he overcame setbacks and in the red to become a leader on illustrious off the court.

8. The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and righteousness Churchill Club by Phillip Hoose

The Boys Who Challenged Hitler chronicles the survival of Knud Pedersen and his classmates whose efforts to sabotage Hitler megastar to the Danish resistance.

9. Lion: Straighten up Long Way Home Young Readers’ Road by Saroo Brierley

Lost on a instruct at age five, homeless, and as a result placed in an orphanage, Brierley shares the story of how he drained years wondering about his life, probing for his home, and finally solemn it.

10. The Keeper: The Unguarded Narrative of Tim Howard Young Readers’ Issue by Tim Howard

Diagnosed with Tourette’s Cue, Tim Howard shares the encouraging story of his childhood, long soccer being, and sudden success.

11. Americanized: Rebel Beyond a Green Card by Sara Saedi

Saedi recounts her childhood as an private Iranian living in America.

12. The 57 Bus: A True Story of Couple Teenagers and the Crime that Denatured Their Lives by Dashka Slater

The lives of two teens from very conspicuous neighborhoods are forever changed and vault 1 together by a horrific crime.

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