Follows the popular children's author from her childhood years in Oregon through high school and into young adulthood, highlighting her family life and her growing interest in writing.

Traces the parallel lives of two youths with the same name in the same community, describing how the author grew up to be a Rhodes Scholar and promising business leader while his counterpart suffered a life of violence and imprisonment.

A biography concentrating on the childhood of the airplane inventors Wilbur and Orville Wright.

A biography concentrating on the childhood of the Revolutionary War leader and first President of the United States.

"Legendary singer Roberta Flack reflects on her early childhood and her love of music"-- Provided by publisher.

Reminiscent of the works of Mary Karr and Terese Marie Mailhot, a memoir of family and survival, coming-of-age on and off the reservation, and of the frictions between mainstream American culture and Native inheritance; assimilation and reverence for tradition. Deborah Jackson Taffa was raised to believe that some sacrifices were necessary to achieve a better life. Her grandparents—citizens of the Quechan Nation and Laguna Pueblo tribe—were sent...

A description of the childhood and youth of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the thirty-fifth president of the United States.

The author recalls his carefree life in a small midwestern town at the close of World War I, and his adventures with his pet raccoon.