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Laura: The Life of Laura Ingalls Wilder
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4.12 avg rating — 6,009 ratings
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Boy: Tales of Childhood (Roald Dahl's Autobiography, #1)
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4.07 avg rating — 74,810 ratings
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A Girl from Yamhill
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4.03 avg rating — 4,561 ratings
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Homesick: My Own Story
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3.87 avg rating — 2,979 ratings
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Looking for Anne of Green Gables: The Story of L.M. Montgomery and Her Literary Classic
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3.61 avg rating — 885 ratings
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Gertrude Chandler Warner and The Boxcar Children
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3.97 avg rating — 90 ratings
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It Began With a Page: How Gyo Fujikawa Drew the Way
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4.45 avg rating — 1,260 ratings
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Woody's Words: Woodrow Wilson Rawls and Where the Red Fern Grows
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4.44 avg rating — 77 ratings
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Jim!: Six True Stories about One Great Artist: James Marshall
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4.36 avg rating — 145 ratings
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Outside In and the Inside Out: A Story About Arnold Lobel
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4.37 avg rating — 222 ratings
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Ezra Jack Keats: A Biography with Illustrations
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4.22 avg rating — 68 ratings
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A World Gone Mad: The Diaries of Astrid Lindgren, 1939-45
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4.16 avg rating — 2,323 ratings
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Down a Sunny Dirt Road: An Autobiography
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4.18 avg rating — 200 ratings
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Somewhere, a Boy and a Bear: A. A. Milne and the Creation of "Winnie-the-Pooh"
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3.79 avg rating — 311 ratings
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In Memory Yet Green: The Autobiography, 1920-1954
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4.21 avg rating — 534 ratings
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What Poets Are Like: Up and Down with the Writing Life
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3.70 avg rating — 67 ratings
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The Alpine Path: The Story of My Career
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3.88 avg rating — 1,152 ratings
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Farther and Wilder: The Lost Weekends and Literary Dreams of Charles Jackson
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4.13 avg rating — 87 ratings
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Home Before Dark: A Biographical Memoir of John Cheever by His Daughter
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3.89 avg rating — 397 ratings
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Private Demons: The Life of Shirley Jackson
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4.01 avg rating — 566 ratings
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Life Among the Savages
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3.96 avg rating — 10,026 ratings
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King of the Mild Frontier: An Ill-Advised Autobiography
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3.96 avg rating — 1,543 ratings
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Oddballs
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3.89 avg rating — 350 ratings
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Anonymously Yours
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3.57 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Hole in My Life
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3.77 avg rating — 8,111 ratings
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Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio
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4.44 avg rating — 8,404 ratings
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Warm Springs: Traces of a Childhood at FDR's Polio Haven
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3.52 avg rating — 334 ratings
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Noel Streatfeild: A Biography
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3.97 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Robert McCloskey: A Private Life in Words and Pictures
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3.36 avg rating — 77 ratings
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Where the Past Begins: A Writer's Memoir
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3.58 avg rating — 3,493 ratings
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There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra
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4.04 avg rating — 2,900 ratings
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My Own Two Feet: A Memoir
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4.23 avg rating — 2,006 ratings
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Sometimes You Have to Lie: The Life and Times of Louise Fitzhugh, Renegade Author of Harriet the Spy
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3.84 avg rating — 970 ratings
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In the Great Green Room: The Brilliant and Bold Life of Margaret Wise Brown
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3.62 avg rating — 2,428 ratings
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The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith
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3.69 avg rating — 770 ratings
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Little by Little: A Writer's Education
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4.02 avg rating — 249 ratings
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Stars Come Out Within
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4.12 avg rating — 105 ratings
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From Sarah to Sydney: The Woman Behind All-of-a-Kind Family
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3.59 avg rating — 128 ratings
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A Pen to Change the World: The Life of J.K. Rowling
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Judy Blume: A Life
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3.65 avg rating — 1,250 ratings
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On the Way Home
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4.07 avg rating — 10,565 ratings
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A Writer's Story: From Life to Fiction
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3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Knots in My Yo-Yo String: The Autobiography of a Kid
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3.64 avg rating — 2,266 ratings
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26 Fairmount Avenue (26 Fairmount Avenue, #1)
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3.93 avg rating — 3,528 ratings
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Bill Peet: An Autobiography
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4.27 avg rating — 1,810 ratings
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Cross Creek
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4.06 avg rating — 2,738 ratings
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Judy Blume's Story
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3.87 avg rating — 52 ratings
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Ann M. Martin: The Story of the Author of The Baby-Sitters Club
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3.57 avg rating — 103 ratings
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Prairie Girl: The Life of Laura Ingalls Wilder
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4.09 avg rating — 578 ratings
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Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography
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4.07 avg rating — 8,661 ratings
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One of a Kind: The Life of Sydney Taylor
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3.86 avg rating — 124 ratings
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Just Like Beverly: A Biography of Beverly Cleary
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4.42 avg rating — 652 ratings
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Carson McCullers: A Life
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4.01 avg rating — 322 ratings
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Lois Lenski: Storycatcher
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4.08 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Astrid Lindgren: The Woman Behind Pippi Longstocking
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4.25 avg rating — 1,987 ratings
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The Egg and I (Betty MacDonald Memoirs, #1)
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3.88 avg rating — 10,391 ratings
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Brown Girl Dreaming
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4.15 avg rating — 94,208 ratings
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Gone to the Woods: Surviving a Lost Childhood
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5,421 ratings
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Virginia Lee Burton: A Life in Art
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4.28 avg rating — 88 ratings
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The Abracadabra Kid: A Writer's Life
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3.74 avg rating — 146 ratings
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It Came from Ohio: My Life as a Writer
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4.10 avg rating — 758 ratings
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Illumination and Night Glare: The Unfinished Autobiography of Carson McCullers
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3.77 avg rating — 287 ratings
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Devils, Lusts and Strange Desires: The Life of Patricia Highsmith
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3.16 avg rating — 197 ratings
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The Bradbury Chronicles: The Life of Ray Bradbury
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4.29 avg rating — 572 ratings
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Frances Hodgson Burnett: Beyond the Secret Garden
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3.73 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Other People's Houses
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3.66 avg rating — 909 ratings
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No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War
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3.94 avg rating — 1,851 ratings
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Angel in the Parlor: Five Stories and Eight Essays
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4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
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3.95 avg rating — 21,462 ratings
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Lewis Carroll: A Biography
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3.84 avg rating — 353 ratings
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Mark Twain
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4.18 avg rating — 7,204 ratings
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Come, Tell Me How You Live
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4.08 avg rating — 5,428 ratings
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The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
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3.94 avg rating — 68,741 ratings
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Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor
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3.97 avg rating — 1,671 ratings
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The Moon and I
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3.87 avg rating — 95 ratings
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Looking Back: A Book of Memories
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4.21 avg rating — 992 ratings
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One Writer's Way
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Morning Has Broken: A Biography of Eleanor Farjeon
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3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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But I'll Be Back Again
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4.16 avg rating — 83 ratings
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Two Under the Indian Sun
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4.02 avg rating — 498 ratings
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I Knew a Phoenix: Sketches for an Autobiography
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4.10 avg rating — 168 ratings
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The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An Autobiography
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3.75 avg rating — 88 ratings
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Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
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4.03 avg rating — 5,390 ratings
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The Lonely Hunter: A Biography of Carson McCullers
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4.23 avg rating — 665 ratings
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Small Footsteps in the Land of the Dragon: Growing up in China
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4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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My Wars Are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson
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3.96 avg rating — 664 ratings
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Alex Haley: And the Books That Changed a Nation
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3.53 avg rating — 92 ratings
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Eastern Sun, Winter Moon: An Autobiographical Odyssey
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4.14 avg rating — 201 ratings
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A Little Learning
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3.74 avg rating — 273 ratings
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A Child Alone: The Memoirs Of "B.B."
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 17 ratings
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The Sun in the Morning: My Early Years in India and England
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4.24 avg rating — 400 ratings
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Journey into Childhood: The Autobiography of Lois Lenski
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4.16 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Where Nothing Is Long Ago: Memories of a Mormon Childhood
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3.74 avg rating — 53 ratings
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A Backward Glance
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3.79 avg rating — 1,112 ratings
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No Map, Great Trip: A Young Writer's Road to Page One
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3.74 avg rating — 88 ratings
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