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Civil War stories, tales of terror, and autobiographical pieces, as well as the subversive lexicon originally titled The Cynic's Word…
Book. Includes In the Midst of Life (Tales of Soldiers and Civilians); Can Such Things Be?; and Bits of Autobiography, which contains recollections of Shiloh and Chickamauga. Edited by S. T. Joshi. 2011The Keillor reader
By Garrison Keillor. 2014
My Southern journey: true stories from the heart of the South
By Rick Bragg. 2015
Essays about life in the American South by the author of popular memoirs like All Over but the Shoutin' (DB…
46142). The seventy-two essays, many of which originally appeared in Southern Living magazine, are broken down into categories of "Home," "Table," "Place," "Craft," and "Spirit."2015The Wednesday wars: A Newbery Honor Award Winner
By Gary D. Schmidt. 2007
Long Island, 1967. Seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood knows that Mrs. Baker "hates his guts" because she would have Wednesday afternoons free…
if he went to catechism or Hebrew school like his classmates. Mrs. Baker worries about her husband in Vietnam and introduces a reluctant Holling to Shakespeare. For grades 5-8. Newbery Honor. 2007I Am Regina
By Keehn, Sally M.. 1991
The cabin door crashes open-and in a few minutes Regina's life changes forever. Allegheny Indians murder her father and brother,…
burn their Pennsylvania home to the ground, and take Regina captive. Only her mother, who is away from home, is safe. Torn from her family, Regina longs for the past, but she must begin a new life. She becomes Tskinnak, who learns to catch fish, dance the Indian dance, and speak the Indian tongue. As the years go by, her new people become her family . . . but she never stops wondering about her mother. Will they ever meet again? "A first-person narrative based on the true story of a young woman held by Indians from 1755-1763, related with all the impact of a hard-hitting documentary . . . Wonderful reading. " (School Library Journal) "I Am Regina is an enthralling and profoundly stirring story, historical fiction for young people at its very finest. " (Elizabeth George Speare, Newbery Award-winning author of The Witch of Blackbird Pond) .It Came From Ohio!: My Life As A Writer (Goosebumps Ser.)
By R. L. Stine. 1997
The autobiography of R.L. Stine, creator of the Goosebumps series, now a motion picture in theaters August 7th, 2015! Has…
he had a horrifying life? -Was RL Stine a SCARY kid? -Did he have a WEIRD family? -Did his friends at school think he was STRANGE? - Why does he like to TERRIFY his readers? -Where does he get the frightening ideas for his stories? All of your questions about best-selling your favorite author are answering in this STINE-TINGLING life story! For the first time ever, R.L. Stine reveals what he was like when he was YOUR age--and what his scary life is like TODAY! Plus: Private snapshots and photos from his family album!