Fall

Narrative: Memoirs

Calkins, book 6

Low levels:

Rylant, Cynthia.  When I Was Young in the Mountains

Say, Allen. Grandfather’s Journey

Friedman, Laurie. The Mallory series:  Mallory on the Move, In Business with Mallory, Heart to Heart with Mallory, Happy Birthday Mallory, Back to School Mallory, Mallory Vs. Max, Mallory on Board

Giff, Patricia Reilly.  The Beast in Ms. Rooney’s Room (L28) and the other Polk Street School books.

Van Draanen, Wendelin. The Shredderman series: Shredderman: Secret Identity, Shredderman: Attack of the Tagger, Shredderman: Meet the Gecko, Shredderman: Enemy Spy

Cameron, Ann. The Julian series (L30): The Stories Julian Tells, Julian, Dream Doctor, Julian's Glorious Summer, More Stories Julian Tells, Gloria Rising

Gannett, Ruth Stiles.  The Dragons of Blueland series (L30).  My Father’s Dragon, The Dragons of Blueland, Elmer and the Dragon

Carlson, Laurie.  Boss of the Plains: The Hat that Won the West 

Rylant, Cynthia and Stephen Gammell. The Relatives Came

Medium levels:

Conrad, Pam.  Pedro’s Journal

Greenwald, Sheila. Rosy Cole’s Memoir Explosion

Rylant, Cynthia. The Islander

Bruchac, Joseph. Crazy Horse’s Vision

Byars, Betsy. The Moon & I

Cooney, Barbara. Eleanor, 

Hopkins, Lee Bennett. Been to Yesterdays: Poems of a Life

Ed. Amy Ehrlich. When I was Your Age: Original Stories about Growing Up

MacLachlan, Patricia and Barry Moser. What You Know First

High levels:

Sterling, Shirley. My Name is Seepeetza

McKissack, Patricia. Nzingha: Warrior Queen of Matamba (The Royal Diaries – Angola, Africa, 1595)

Knots in My Yo-yo String, Jerry Spinelli

Red Scarf, Jiana

Small Steps: The Year I got Poho, Kehret

Becoming Naomi Leon, Ryan

Jar of Dreams, Uchida

Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank

Bloomability, Sharon Creech

Chasing Red Bird, Sharon Creech

Walk Two Moons, Sharon Creech

Esperanza Rising, Pam Munoz Ryan

Yolanda’s Genius, Carol Fenner (mature themes)

Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child, Jimenez

Number the Stars, Lowry (mature themes)

Landry News, Clements

Farewell to Manzanar, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston

Rocks in His Head, Carol Otis Hurst

Looking Back: A Book of Memories, Lois Lowry

Unconditional Surrender: U. S. Grant and the Civil War

Woodsong, Gary Paulsen

Orphan Train Rider: One Boy’s True Story

A Girl from Yamhill: A Memoir, Beverly Cleary

My Own Two Feet, Beverly Cleary

Boy: Tales of Childhood, Roald Dahl

Bad Boy: a memoir, Walter Dean Myers

To Dance: A Ballerina’s Graphic Novel, Siena Cherson Siegel