tammyw Posted March 11, 2017 Share Posted March 11, 2017 My daughter is into non-fiction right now and I would love recommendations that will really hold her interest. She recently read Night by Elie Wiesel, so that level of graphic and maturity is totally fine. TIA! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maize Posted March 11, 2017 Share Posted March 11, 2017 Biographies then? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-rap Posted March 11, 2017 Share Posted March 11, 2017 I would check out the young adult biography section at the library. That's the age when my kids really got into biographies. So many of them are so inspiring, too! There are probably a lot of regular adult biographies that she would enjoy as well. Our library had a whole section of biographies during World War II, and we found many in that area. (all written from different points of views -- nurses, families, teenage girls, etc.) Another thing you can do is go into Amazon and search Night, and it will give you other suggestions similar to that one, and you can keep following that path of suggestions then as you click on each new one. Or, if there is a particular theme she is interested in, for example girls in World War II, you can search (in Amazon) "World War II + girls + biography" to get ideas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farrar Posted March 11, 2017 Share Posted March 11, 2017 I think any popular memoirs or shorter biographies of the last couple of decades would be good choices... So things like Angela's Ashes, Mountains Beyond Mountains, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Three Cups of Tea, Persepolis... Are there topics you'd like to avoid? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tammyw Posted March 11, 2017 Author Share Posted March 11, 2017 I think any popular memoirs or shorter biographies of the last couple of decades would be good choices... So things like Angela's Ashes, Mountains Beyond Mountains, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Three Cups of Tea, Persepolis... Are there topics you'd like to avoid? I don't think there are any topics I'd feel the need to censor at this point. She knows it all. I've handed Infidel over to her, though she hasn't yet gotten to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalmia Posted March 11, 2017 Share Posted March 11, 2017 Autobiographies: Tracks: A Woman's Solo Trek across 1,700 Miles of Australian Outback by Robyn Davidson Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood by Oliver Sacks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paige Posted March 11, 2017 Share Posted March 11, 2017 (edited) I'd recommend these to my own kids. I also liked many of those listed by previous posters. Into the Wild Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History.... George Washington's Secret Six The Drunkard's Walk Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas Edited March 11, 2017 by Paige Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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