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Biographies for Teens

WHERE TO FIND YOUR BOOK:
BOOKS WITH A CALL NUMBER BEGINNING WITH “J” ARE IN THE CHILDREN’S DEPARTMENT, BOOKS BEGINNING WITH “YA” ARE IN THE TEEN ZONE, AND BOOKS WITH NO LETTER PRECEDING THE DEWEY NUMBER ARE UPSTAIRS IN THE ADULT DEPARTMENT

Abigail Adams
Bober, Natalie. Abigail Adams: Witness to a Revolution. J 973.44 (Adams) Bob

Anderson, Laurie Halse

Shout. YA 811.54 (Anderson) And


Aziz Ansari
Niver, Heather Moore. 791.45 Niv

Jane Austen
Reef, Catherine. Jane Austen: A Life Revealed. YA 823.7 (Austen) Ree

Ishmael Beah
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier. 966.404 (Bea) Bea

Simone Biles
Courage to Soar: A Body in Motion, A Life in Balance. YA 796.44 (Biles) Bil

Anne, Charlotte and Emily Bronte
Reef, Catherine. The Bronte Sisters: The Brief Lives of Charlotte, Emily and Anne. YA 823.8 Ree

Rachel Carson
Levine, Ellen. Up Close: Rachel Carson: A Twentieth-century Life. J 574.092 (Carson) Lev

Coco Chanel
Gaines, Ann. Coco Chanel. YA 746.92092 (Chanel) Gai

Sarah Louise Delany and Dr. A Elizabeth Delany
Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years. 929.2 (Delany) Del

Walt Disney
Sheen, Barbara. Walt Disney. YA 791.43 (Disney) She

Gabby Douglas
Grace, Gold & Glory: My Leap of Faith. 796.44 (Douglas) Dou

Frederick Douglass
Burchard, Peter. Frederick Douglass: For the Great Family of Man. J 305.896 (Douglass) Bur

Daniel Ellsberg
Sheinkin, Steve. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War.YA 959.704 She

Anne Frank
The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition. 940.5318 (Frank) Fra

Althea Gibson and Arthur Ashe
Stanmyre, Jackie F. Althea Gibson and Arthur Ashe: Breaking Down Tennis’s Color Barrier. YA 796.342 Sta

Marion “Strong Medicine” Gould
Hearth, Amy Hill. “Strong Medicine” Speaks: A Native American Elder Has Her Say. 974.00497 (Strong Medicine) Hea

Lady Gaga
Coulman, Laura. Lady Gaga: Strange and Beautiful: The Fabulous Style of Lady Gaga. YA 784.54 (Lady Gaga) Cou
and
Herbert, Emily. Lady Gaga: Behind the Fame. YA 784.54 (Lady Gaga) Her

Ulysses Grant and Robert E. Lee
Archer, Jules. A House Divided: The Lives of Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee. YA 973.7 Arc

Laurie Hernandez
I Got This: To Gold and Beyond. J 796.44 (Hernandez) Her

Laura Hillman
Hillman, Laura. I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree: A Memoir of a Schinler’s List Survivor. YA 940.5318 (Hillman) Hil

Charlayne Hunter-Gault
To The Mountaintop: My Journey Through the Civil Rights Movement. YA 070.92 Hun

Whitney Houston
Heppermann, Christine. Whitney Houston: Recording Artist & Actress. YA 784.54 (Houston) Hep

Steve Jobs
Hartland, Jessie. Steve Jobs: Insanely Great. YA 338.761 (Jobs) Har

Jon Krakauer
Into the Wild. 917.9804 Kra

Harper Lee
Shields, Charles J. I am Scout: The Biography of Harper Lee. YA 813.54 (Lee) Shi

Abraham Lincoln
Holzer, Harold. Father Abraham: Lincoln and His Sons. YA 973.7 (Lincoln) Hol

Sonia Manzano
Becoming Maria: Love and Chaos in the South Bronx. YA 791.45 (Manzano) Man

Walter Dean Myers
Bad Boy: A Memoir. J 813.54 Mye or YA 813.54 (Myers) Mye

Barack Obama
Thomas, Garen Eileen. Yes We Can: A Biography of President Barack Obama. J 973.932 (Obama) Tho

Allan Pinkerton
Seiple, Samantha. Lincoln’s Spymaster: Allan Pinkerton, America’s First Private Eye. YA 363.28 Sei

Sally Ride
O’ Shaughnessy, Tam E. Sally Ride: A Photobiography of America’s Pioneering Woman in Space. YA 629.45 (Ride) O’Sha

Dmitri Shostakovich
Anderson, M.T. Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad.YA 780.92 And

Sonia Sotomayor
My Beloved World. 347.7326 (Sotomayor) Sot

Ida B. Wells
Fradin, Dennis B. Ida B. Wells: Mother of the Civil Rights Movement. J 323.092 (Wells) Fra

Sachiko Yasui
Stelson, Caren Barzelay. Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor’s Story. YA 940.54 (Yasui) Ste

Minamoto Yoshitsune
Turner, Pamela S. Samurai Rising: The Epic Life of Minamoto Yoshitsune. YA 952.01092 (Minamoto) Tur

Louis Zamperini
Hillenbrand, Laura. Unbroken: An Olympian’s Journey from Airman to Castaway to Captive. Original edition: 940.5472(Zamperini) Hil, YA edition: YA 940.5472 (Zamperini) Hil

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