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Author
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
The soccer goalkeeper shares the story of his rise in becoming one of the world's finest goalkeepers and achieving international stardom at the 2014 World Cup, emphasizing the importance of his faith.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A formative coming-of-age graphic memoir by the creator of Afro-punk: a young man’s immersive reckoning with identity, racism, clumsy teen love and belonging in an isolated California desert town, and a search for salvation and community through punk.
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Dream Pop Origami is a beautiful, interactive, imaginative, and engrossing debut memoir about mixed-race identity, love, travel, Asian American masculinity, and racial metamorphosis. This experimental work of creative nonfiction examines, celebrates, and complicates what it means to be Asian and white, Nisei and hapa, Midwestern and Californian, Buddhist and American at the same time. In this stunning collection of choose-your-own-essays and autobiographical...
Author
Publisher
Clarkson Potter
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The daughter of parents with unfulfilled dreams themselves, Malaka navigated her childhood chasing her parents' ideals, learning to switch between her family's Filipino and Egyptian customs, adapting to white culture to fit in, crushing on skater boys, and trying to understand the tension between holding onto cultural values and trying to be an all-American kid. Malaka Gharib's triumphant graphic memoir brings to life her teenage antics and illuminates...
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