Memoir

Today's top authors for teens come together to share their stories about bullying—as silent observers on the sidelines of high school, as victims, and as perpetrators—in a collection at turns moving and self-effacing, but always deeply personal.
 * //Dear Bully: Seventy Authors Tell Their Stories //**

The moving memoir of a college senior who, in the space of five weeks, loses both of his parents to cancer and inherits his eight-year-old brother.
 * //A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius //**
 * by [|Dave Eggers] **

by [|Charlayne Hunter-Gault] In this compelling personal history, acclaimed journalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault looks back on her involvement in the civil rights movement, as one of two black students who forced the University of Georgia to integrate, and relates the pivotal events that swept the South as the civil rights movement gathered momentum through the early 1960s.
 * //To the Mountaintop: My Journey Through the Civil Rights Movement //**

by [|Judy Shepard] The mother of Matthew Shepard shares her story about her son's death and the choice she made to become an international gay rights activist.
 * //The Meaning of Matthew: My Son's Murder in Laramie, and a World Transformed //**

by [|Patti Smith] Smith's evocative, honest, and moving coming-of-age story reveals her extraordinary relationship with artist Robert Mapplethorpe. Part romance, part elegy//, Just Kids// is about friendship in the truest sense, and the artist's calling.
 * //Just Kids //**

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">by <span style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman','serif'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none;">[|Jeannette Walls] <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">Walls has written a stunning and life-affirming memoir about surviving a willfully impoverished, eccentric, and severely misguided family.
 * //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">The Glass Castle //**