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Filipovic, Zlata.
Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo.
(Y Biography)
In evocative, sometimes surprisingly simple terms, Zlata's
diary personalizes the tragedy in Sarajevo.
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Giblin, James. When
Plague Strikes: the Black Death, Smallpox, AIDS.
(614.49 G)
Combining social history with science and medicine, Giblin
writes about three horrible plagues and about the suffering,
bigotry, and humanity of people, then and now.
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Hayden, Torey L. One
Child.
In an absorbing narrative that is both disturbing and cathartic,
young therapist Hayden tells how she discovered that six-year-old
emotionally disturbed Sheila is, in fact, a genuis whose
uncle sexually abused her.
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Kaysen Susanna. Girl,
Interrupted. (Biography)
A successful author who spent two of her teen years as a
patient in a mental institution shares her harrowing experience.
Made into a movie.
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Mandela, Nelson. Long
Walk to Freedom: the Autobiography of Nelson Mandela. (Biography)
Mandela tells his story of the long struggle against apartheid
and his 27 years in prison.
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Paulsen, Gary. Woodsong.
A famous author recounts his rugged life in Northern Minnesota
and describes his experience as a sled dog racer in Alaska.
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Preston, Richard.
The Hot Zone. (614.57 P, Adult PB NFC)
A deadly virus runs amok, and a military S.W.A.T. team dons
biohazard suits as they attempt to contain the hot zone.
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Ryan, Joan. Little
Girls in Pretty Boxes: the Making and Breaking of Elite
Gymnasts and Figure Skaters. (796.44 R)
An expose of the abuse and problems endured by young women
competing in two superficially glamorous sports.
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Spiegelman, Art. Maus:
a Survivor's Tale. (Y 940.5318 S)
In a comic book of revolutionary graphic design, a cartoonist
juxtaposes his frustration with his father's insensitivity
today and his father's desperate struggle to stay alive
forty years earlier during the Holocaust.
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Ten Boom, Corrie.
The Hiding Place. (Biography)
A Christian woman in Nazi-occupied Holland describes how
her family helped to hide Jewish people.
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Thomas, Elizabeth
Marshall. The Hidden Life of Dogs. (636.7001
T)
A careful observation of what dogs choose to do when they
are left to their own devices.
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