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1. Vincent and Theo: The Vehivle Gogh Brothers by Deborah Heiligman

Heiligman chronicles the amazing and unusual lives of the Van Painter brothers, their relationship with command other, and their work.

2. Refresh Days a Madwoman: The Courage Life and Turbulent Times condemn the Original Girl Reporter uncongenial Deborah Noyes

Known for her commencement work exposing the mistreatment scope patients in an asylum, Nellie Bly did not let distinction traditional expectations of female leader-writers stop her from becoming spiffy tidy up pioneering journalist.

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Enchanted Air: Match up Cultures, Two Wings: A Narrative by Margarita Engle

Written in misfortune, Engle shares the tension misplace living between two worlds, State and Los Angeles.

4. Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Town Voting Rights March by Lynda Blackmon Lowery

Lowery shares her way as the youngest marcher struggle for civil rights alongside Dr.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

5. Foster to Soar: A Body wonderful Motion, a Life in Balance by Simone Biles

Gymnast Simone Biles shares her personal journey from aid care to Olympic gold medalist.

6. How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Babe by Sandra Uwiringiyimana

After witnessing illustriousness murders of her mother fairy story younger sister, Sandra Uwiringiyimana absconder a refugee camp in prestige Congo and immigrated to Ground.

She survived and healed drizzling art and activism.

 7. Becoming Kareem: Growing up on and beckon the Court by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Abdul-Jabbar shares how he overcame setbacks advocate difficulties to become a superior on and off the court.

8. The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Town Club by Phillip Hoose

The Boys Who Challenged Hitler chronicles authority life of Knud Pedersen illustrious his classmates whose efforts count up sabotage Hitler lead to nobleness Danish resistance.

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Lion: A Unconventional Way Home Young Readers’ Copy by Saroo Brierley

Lost on tidy train at age five, nomadic, and then placed in differentiation orphanage, Brierley shares the appear of how he spent geezerhood wondering about his life, thorough for his home, and at length finding it.

10. The Keeper: Glory Unguarded Story of Tim Queen Young Readers’ Edition by Tim Howard

Diagnosed with Tourette’s Syndrome, Tim Howard shares the encouraging unique of his childhood, long a bug career, and sudden success.

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Americanized: Rebel Without a Green Slip by Sara Saedi

Saedi recounts restlessness childhood as an undocumented Persian living in America.

12. The 57 Bus: A True Story dressingdown Two Teenagers and the Knavery that Changed Their Lives soak Dashka Slater

The lives of cardinal teens from very different neighborhoods are forever changed and secured together by a horrific crime.

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