Autobiographies for 4th-6th graders

Pauses: Autobiographical Reflections of 101 Creators of Children's Books

(Authors and Illustrators)

When I Was Your Age: Original Stories About Growing Up

(Authors and Illustrators)

Ada, Alma Flor

Where the Flame Trees Bloom

(Author)

Auerbacher, Inge

I Am a Star-Child of the Holocaust

(Holocaust Survivor)

Berenstain, Stan and Jan

Down a Sunny Dirt Road

(Author/Illustrators)

Bridges, Ruby

Through My Eyes

(Part of School Integration)

Byars, Betsy

The Moon and I

(Author)

Cleary, Beverly

A Girl from Yamhill: A Memoir

and

My Own Two Feet: A Memoir

(Author)

Cole, Joanna

On the Bus with Joanna Cole

(Author)

Collins, Michael

Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story

(Astronaut)

Cushman, Kathleen and Montana Miller

Circus Dreams: The Making of a Circus Artist

(Trapeze Artist)

Dahl, Roald

Boy: Tales of a Childhood

(Author)

Drucker, Olga Levy

Kindertransport

(Young girl sent to England during World War II)

Equiano, Olaudah

The Kidnapped Prince: The Life of Olaudah Equiano

(African Prince)

Fleischman, Sid

Abracadabra Kid: A Writer's Life

(Author)

Foreman, Michael

War Boy: A Country Childhood

and

After the War Was Over

(Illustrator)

George, Jean Craighead

The Tarantula in My Purse: And 172 Other Wild Pets

(Author)

Huynh, Quang Nhuong

Water Buffalo Days

(Growing up in Vietnam before the War)

Jackson, Livia Bitton

I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up in the Holocaust

(Holocaust Survivor)

Jiang, Ji-li

Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution

(Growing up in China)

Kehret, Peg

Small Steps: The Year I got Polio

(Author)

Kwan, Michelle

Heart of a Champion: An Autobiography

(Ice Skater)

Lane, Rose Wilder and Roger Lea MacBride

Rose Wilder Lane : Her Story

(Author)

Lekuton, Joseph

Facing the Lion : Growing Up Masai on the African Savannah

(Growing up in Africa)

Lipinski, Tara

Triumph on Ice: An Autobiography

(Ice Skater)

Little, Jean

Stars Come Out Within

(Author)

Lobel, Anita

No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War

(Holocaust)

Lowry, Lois

Looking Back: A Book of Memories

(Author)

Mah, Adeline Yen

Chinese Cinderella

(Growing up unwanted in China)

Nesbit, Edith

Long Ago When I Was Young

(Author)

O'Grady, Scott

Basher 52: The True Story of F-16 Fighter Pilot Captain Scott O'Grady

(Fighter Pilot)

Osborn, Shane

Born to Fly

(U.S. Navy Pilot)

Parks, Rosa

Rosa Parks: My Story

(Civil Rights Activist)

Patent, Gregory

Shanghai Passage

(WWII China)

Paulsen, Gary

My Life in Dog Years

(Author)

Peet, Bill

Bill Peet: An Autobiography

(Author & Illustrator)

Rabinovici, Schoschana

Thanks to My Mother

(Holocaust)

Reiss, Johanna

The Upstairs Room

And

The Journey Back

(WWII)

Schultz, Charles

Charlie Brown, Snoopy and Me, and All the Other Peanuts Characters

(Comic Strip Creator)

Spinelli, Jerry

Knots in My Yo-Yo String: The Autobiography of a Kid

(Author)

Stine, R.L.

It Came From Ohio!: My Life as a Writer

(Author)

Tallchief, Maria and Rosemary Wells

Tallchief: America's Prima Ballerina

(Ballet Dancer)

Taulbert, Clifton L.

Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored

(Overcoming prejudice)

Taylor, Elizabeth

Nibbles and Me

(Actress)

Tillage, Leon

Leon's Story

(Overcoming prejudice)

Toll, Nelly S.

Behind the Secret Window

(WWII)

Trapp, Maria Augusta

A Family on Wheels: the Further Adventures of the Trapp Family Singers

(The family from The Sound of Music)

Tudor, Tasha

The Private World of Tasha Tudor

(Illustrator)

Uchida, Yoshiko

The Invisible Thread

(Author)

Van Meter, Vicki

Taking Flight: My Story

(Pilot)

Yolen, Jane

A Letter From Phoenix Farm

(Author)