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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Author: Maya Angelou   ISBN: 0553279378   /   Mass Market Paperback Publisher: Bantam   /   1983-05-01 List Price: $6.99
In this first of five volumes of autobiography, poet Maya Angelou recounts a youth filled with disappointment, frustration, tragedy, and finally hard-won independence. Sent at a young age to live with her grandmother in Arkansas, Angelou learned a gr ... Read more
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Angela's Ashes: A Memoir
Author: Frank McCourt   ISBN: 068484267X   /   Paperback Publisher: Simon & Schuster   /   1999-05-25 List Price: $14.95
"Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood," writes Frank McCourt in Angela's Ashes. "Worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood." Welcome, then, to the pinnacle of the miserable Irish Catholic chil ... Read more
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X : As Told to Alex Haley
ISBN: 0345350685   /   Mass Market Paperback Publisher: Ballantine Books   /   1987-10-12 List Price: $7.99
Malcolm X's searing memoir belongs on the small shelf of great autobiographies. The reasons are many: the blistering honesty with which he recounts his transformation from a bitter, self-destructive petty criminal into an articulate political activis ... Read more
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Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth
Author: Richard Wright   ISBN: 0061130249   /   Paperback Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics   /   2007-04-01 List Price: $14.95
Richard Wright grew up in the woods of Mississippi amid poverty, hunger, fear, and hatred. He lied, stole, and raged at those around him; at six he was a "drunkard," hanging about in taverns. Surly, brutal, cold, suspicious, and self-pitying, he ... Read more
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Enrique's Journey
Author: Sonia Nazario   ISBN: 0812971787   /   Paperback Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks   /   2007-01-02 List Price: $14.95
In this astonishing true story, award-winning journalist Sonia Nazario recounts the unforgettable odyssey of a Honduran boy who braves unimaginable hardship and peril to reach his mother in the United States. When Enrique is five years old, his m ... Read more
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