Search by: Biography / Memoir
Stormy Seas: Stories of Young Boat Refugees
By: Mary Beth Leatherdale
Illustrated by:
Eleanor Shakespeare
Eleanor Shakespeare
ISBN: 9781554518951
Nonfiction, Teen, Immigrant Experience
Swimming Toward a Dream: Yusra Mardini’s Incredible Journey from Refugee to Olympic Swimmer
By: Reem Faruqi
Illustrated by:
Asma Enayeh
Asma Enayeh
ISBN: 9781645679837
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography / Memoir
THAO: A PIcture Book
By: Thao Lam
Illustrated by:
Thao Lam
Thao Lam
ISBN: 9781771474320
Nonfiction, 4-6, Immigrant Experience
Areli is a Dreamer
By: Areli Morales
Illustrated by:
Luisa Uribe
Luisa Uribe
ISBN: 9781984893994
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography / Memoir
Yusra Swims
By: Julie Abery
Illustrated by:
Sally Deng
Sally Deng
ISBN: 9781568463292
Nonfiction, 7-12, Immigrant Experience
Escape
By: Ming Chen, Wah Chen
Illustrated by:
Carmen Vela
Carmen Vela
ISBN: 9781911373810
Nonfiction, 7-12, Immigrant Experience
Finding Refuge: Real-Life Immigration Stories from Young People
By: Victorya Rouse
ISBN: 9781541581609
Nonfiction, Teen, Immigrant Experience
In the Spirit of a Dream: 13 Stories of American Immigrants of Color
By: Aida Salazar
Illustrated by:
Alina Chau
Alina Chau
ISBN: 9781338552874
Nonfiction, 4-6, Immigrant Experience
Dolores Huerta
By: Connor Stratton
ISBN: 9781644936887
Nonfiction, 7-12, Social Activism / Equality / Feminism
Frida Kahlo
By: Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara
Illustrated by:
Gee Fan Eng
Gee Fan Eng
ISBN: 9781847807830
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
Frida Kahlo y sus animalitos
By: Monica Brown; translated by F. Isabel Campoy
Illustrated by:
John Parra
John Parra
ISBN: 9780735842922
Nonfiction, 4-6, Spanish
Frida Kahlo’s Flower Crown
By: Nydia Armendia-Sánchez
Illustrated by:
Loris Lora
Loris Lora
ISBN: 9781949480351
Nonfiction, 4-6, Art / Performing Arts
Gaudí–Architect of Imagination
By: Susan B. Katz
Illustrated by:
Linda Schwalbe
Linda Schwalbe
ISBN: 9780735844872
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography / Memoir
Leyendas / Legends
By: Mónica Mancillas
Illustrated by:
Isadora Zeferino
Isadora Zeferino
ISBN: 9781797211985
Nonfiction, 7-12, BIPOC Characters and Creators
The Life of Dolores Huerta
By: Gillia M. Olson
ISBN: 9781681519487
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
Miguel y su valiente caballero
By: Margarita Engle
Illustrated by:
Raúl Colón
Raúl Colón
ISBN: 9781682630198
Fiction, 7-12, Spanish
Miguel’s Brave Knight
By: Margarita Engle
Illustrated by:
Raúl Colón
Raúl Colón
ISBN: 9781561458561
Fiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
Selena: A Little Golden Book Biography
By: Maria Correa
Illustrated by:
Paula Zamudio
Paula Zamudio
ISBN: 9780593808375
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography / Memoir
Wanda Hears the Stars
By: Amy S. Hansen and Wanda Díaz Merced
Illustrated by:
Rocio Arreola Mendoza
Rocio Arreola Mendoza
ISBN: 9781623544874
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
Bold, Brilliant, and Latine
By: Alyssa Reynoso-Morris
Illustrated by:
Sol Cotti
Sol Cotti
ISBN: 9780711294363
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
Call Me Roberto!
By: Nathalie Alonso
Illustrated by:
Rudy Guitierrez
Rudy Guitierrez
ISBN: 9781635928112
Nonfiction, 7-12, Sports / Games / Recreation
Bold, Brilliant, and Latine
By: Alyssa Reynoso-Morris
Illustrated by:
Sol Cotti
Sol Cotti
ISBN: 9780711294363
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
Charlotte Ray: Trailblazing Lawyer
By: Nancy Loewen
Illustrated by:
Chasity Hampton
Chasity Hampton
ISBN: 9781959223641
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
Dexter: The Stand Up Dog
By: Kentee Pasek and Bonnie Kelso
Illustrated by:
Bonnie Kelso
Bonnie Kelso
ISBN: 9781957655482
Nonfiction, 4-6, Animals
Fight for the Right to Read: Samuel Wilbert Tucker and the 1939 Sit-Down Strike for Library Reading Equality
By: Jeff Gottesfeld and Michelle Y. Green
Illustrated by:
Kim Holt
Kim Holt
ISBN: 9781954354333
Nonfiction, 7-12, Social Activism / Equality / Feminism
Happy Birthday to You! The Sisters Who Wrote the Most Famous Song in the World
By: Rachelle Burk
Illustrated by:
Abigail Lashbrook
Abigail Lashbrook
ISBN: 9781954354340
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
Paige Bueckers
By: Charlie Beattie
ISBN: 9798892507226
Nonfiction, 7-12, Sports / Games / Recreation
Rebel Girls 5-Minute Stories
By: DK
Illustrated by:
DK
DK
ISBN: 9798217126248
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
The World Entire
By: Elizabeth Brown
Illustrated by:
Melissa Castrillón
Melissa Castrillón
ISBN: 9781452170985
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography / Memoir
Never Silent
By: Setsuko Thurlow, Kathy Lowinger
Illustrated by:
Michelle Theodore
Michelle Theodore
ISBN: 9781773219851
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
By: Joanne Mattern
Illustrated by:
Marilena Perilli
Marilena Perilli
ISBN: 9781643714431
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
Scientists Like Me
By: JaNay Brown-Wood, Kamin Science Center
Illustrated by:
Kristen Uroda
Kristen Uroda
ISBN: 9781523516780
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
Trailblazers: The Unmatched Story of Women’s Tennis, Young Readers Edition
By: Billie Jean King, Jolie C. Matthews
Illustrated by:
Alexandra Badiu
Alexandra Badiu
ISBN: 9781524883607
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
The Boy Who Became a Parrot: A Foolish Biography of Edward Lear, Who Invented Nonsense
By: Wolverton Hill
Illustrated by:
Laura Carlin
Laura Carlin
ISBN: 9781592704132
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
Clara Schumann
By: Joanne Mattern
Illustrated by:
Marilena Perilli
Marilena Perilli
ISBN: 9781643714370
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
Florence Price
By: Joanne Mattern
Illustrated by:
Marilena Perilli
Marilena Perilli
ISBN: 9781643714493
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
Marie Curie in the Land of Science
By: Irène Cohen-Janca
Illustrated by:
Claudia Palmarucci
Claudia Palmarucci
ISBN: 9781568464008
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
Fighting for YES!
By: Maryann Cocca-Leffler
Illustrated by:
Vivien Mildenberger
Vivien Mildenberger
ISBN: 9781419755606
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
Funny, You Don’t Look Autistic
By: Michael McCreary
ISBN: 9781773212579
Nonfiction, Teen, Neurodiversity
I Am Not a Label—34 disabled artists, thinkers, athletes and activists from past and present
By: Cerrie Burnell
Illustrated by:
Lauren Mark Baldo
Lauren Mark Baldo
ISBN: 9780711247451
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
Louis Braille
By: Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara
Illustrated by:
Ana Albero
Ana Albero
ISBN: 9781836007418
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography / Memoir
Ludwig van Beethoven
By: Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara
Illustrated by:
Romina Galotta
Romina Galotta
ISBN: 9781836008156
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography / Memoir
Ode to Grapefruit—How James Earl Jones Found His Voice
By: Kari Lavelle
Illustrated by:
Bryan Collier
Bryan Collier
ISBN: 9780593372760
Nonfiction, 4-6, Disabilities
Rewriting the Rules—How Dr. Kathleen Friel Created New Possibilities for Brain Research and Disability
By: Danna Zeiger
Illustrated by:
Josée Bisaillon
Josée Bisaillon
ISBN: 9798765647271
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
Stephen Hawking
By: Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara
Illustrated by:
Matt Hunt
Matt Hunt
ISBN: 9781786033338
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography / Memoir
Stokes: The Brief Career of the NBA’s First Black Superstar
By: Ty Chapman, John Coy
Illustrated by:
Lonnie Ollivierre
Lonnie Ollivierre
ISBN: 9781728492490
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
Dexter—El perro que camine de pie
By: Kentee Pasek, Bonnie Kelso; translated by Gabriella Aldeman
Illustrated by:
Bonnie Kelso
Bonnie Kelso
ISBN: 9781957655499
Nonfiction, 4-6, Disabilities
Dexter: The Stand Up Dog
By: Kentee Pasek, Bonnie Kelso
Illustrated by:
Bonnie Kelso
Bonnie Kelso
ISBN: 9781957655482
Nonfiction, 4-6, Disabilities
Disability Visibility (Adapted for Young Adults)
By: Alice Wong
ISBN: 9780593381670
Nonfiction, Teen, Biography / Memoir
Oh, Give Me A Home
By: Jane Kurtz
ISBN: 9781960803207
Nonfiction, 7-12, Poetry / Stories in Verse, Biography / Memoir
Saving Hawai’I’s Honu
By: Leslie Ann Hayashi
Illustrated by:
Kelly Pousette
Kelly Pousette
ISBN: 9781478868514
Nonfiction, 7-12, Picture Book, Animals
The Totally Awesome World of MrBeast
By: Neal E. Fischer
ISBN: 9780760395431
Nonfiction, 7-12, Illustrated Prose, Biography / Memoir
Women Who Dared Volume 2: 52 More Stories of Fearless Daredevils, Adventurers, and Rebels
By: Linda Skeers
Illustrated by:
Livi Gosling
Livi Gosling
ISBN: 9781728297781
Nonfiction, 7-12, Illustrated Prose, Biography / Memoir
Sugar Pie Lullaby
By: Carole Boston Weatherford
Illustrated by:
Sawyer Cloud
Sawyer Cloud
ISBN: 9781728242521
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography / Memoir
The Squad
By: Christina Soontornvat
Illustrated by:
Joanna Cacao
Joanna Cacao
ISBN: 9781338741322
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
She’ll Be the Sky
By: Ella Risbridger
Illustrated by:
Anna Shepeta
Anna Shepeta
ISBN: 9798887770550
Nonfiction, Teen, Biography / Memoir
Nearer My Freedom
By: Monica Edinger and Leslie Younge
ISBN: 9781728464077
Nonfiction, Teen, Biography / Memoir
Hokusai’s Daughter
By: Sunny Seki
Illustrated by:
Sunny Seki
Sunny Seki
ISBN: 9784805318614
Nonfiction, Teen, Biography / Memoir
Of Words and Water—The story of Wilma Dykeman -Writer, Historian,Environmentalist
By: Shannon Hitchcock
Illustrated by:
Sophie Page
Sophie Page
ISBN: 9781478870371
Nonfiction, 7-12, Science / Nature
Whoosh! Lonnie Johnson’s Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions
By: Chris Barton
Illustrated by:
Don Tate
Don Tate
ISBN: 9781580892971
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
Yusra Swims
By: Julie Abery
Illustrated by:
Sally Deng
Sally Deng
ISBN: 9781568463292
Nonfiction, 7-12, Immigrant Experience
Adrift at Sea
By: Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch, Tuan Ho
Illustrated by:
Brian Deines
Brian Deines
ISBN: 9781772780055
Nonfiction, 7-12, Immigrant Experience
As the Seas Rise
By: Angela Quezada Padron
Illustrated by:
Angela Quezada Padron
Angela Quezada Padron
ISBN: 9781665913942
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography / Memoir
Else B. in the Sea
By: Jeanne Walker Harvey
Illustrated by:
Melodie Stacey
Melodie Stacey
ISBN: 9781949480283
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography / Memoir
Lighthouse Ladies—Shining a Spotlight on Hardy Heroines
By: Kris Coronado
Illustrated by:
Islenia Mil
Islenia Mil
ISBN: 9780063351837
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography / Memoir
The Lobster Lady
By: Alexandra S.D. Hinrichs
Illustrated by:
Jamie Hogan
Jamie Hogan
ISBN: 9781623543938
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography / Memoir
Opal Lee and What It Means to Be Free—The True Story of the Grandmother of Juneteenth
By: Alice Faye Duncan
Illustrated by:
Keturah A. Bobo
Keturah A. Bobo
ISBN: 9781400231256
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography / Memoir
She Persisted—Opal Lee
By: Shelia P. Moses, Chelsea Clinton
Illustrated by:
Alexandra Boiger, Gillian Flint
Alexandra Boiger, Gillian Flint
ISBN: 9780593623503
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
Little People, BIG DREAMS—RuPaul
By: Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara
Illustrated by:
Wednesday Holmes
Wednesday Holmes
ISBN: 9780711246812
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography / Memoir
Mary Oliver, Holding on to Wonder
By: Erin Frankel
Illustrated by:
Jasu Hu
Jasu Hu
ISBN: 9781662680823
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
Queer Heroes—Meet 52 LGBTQ Heroes From Past & Present!
By: Arabelle Sicardi
Illustrated by:
Sarah Tanat-Jones
Sarah Tanat-Jones
ISBN: 9780711297203
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
Rebel Girls Celebrate Pride—25 Tales of Self-Love and Community (Library Binding)
By: Alexis Stratton, Jestine Ware, Shadae Mallory
Illustrated by:
multiple illustrators
multiple illustrators
ISBN: 9781644666715
Nonfiction, 7-12, LGBTQIA+
Rebel Girls Celebrate Pride—25 Tales of Self-Love and Community
By: Elena Favilli
ISBN: 9781953424280
Nonfiction, 7-12, LGBTQIA+
Sandor Katz and the Tiny Wild
By: Jacqueline Briggs Martin, June Jo Lee
Illustrated by:
Julie WIlson
Julie WIlson
ISBN: 9780998047713
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
Trans History—A Graphic Novel
By: Alex L. Combs and Andrew Eakett
Illustrated by:
Alex L. Combs and Andrew Eakett
Alex L. Combs and Andrew Eakett
ISBN: 9781536219234
Nonfiction, Teen, LGBTQIA+
A Year of Pride and Joy
By: Simon James Green
Illustrated by:
Ruth Burrows
Ruth Burrows
ISBN: 9781419774089
Nonfiction, 7-12, LGBTQIA+
Chappell Roan—A Little Golden Book Biography
By: Cat Reynolds
Illustrated by:
Maria Lia Malandrino
Maria Lia Malandrino
ISBN: 9798217032150
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography / Memoir
Harvey Milk—No to Homophobia
By: Safia Amor; translated by Ruth Diver
ISBN: 9781644211847
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
It’s Her Story Billie Jean King
By: Donna Tapellini
Illustrated by:
Maria Lia Malandrino
Maria Lia Malandrino
ISBN: 9781503769854
Nonfiction, 7-12, LGBTQIA+
Black Cohosh
By: Eagle Valiant Brosi
Illustrated by:
Eagle Valiant Brosi
Eagle Valiant Brosi
ISBN: 9781770467774
Nonfiction, Teen, Biography / Memoir
Down Syndrome Out Loud
By: Melissa Hart
Illustrated by:
María Perera
María Perera
ISBN: 9781464216695
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
The Hidden Heroes of Science
By: Peter Gallivan, Contributions by Royal Institution
Illustrated by:
Robbie Cathro
Robbie Cathro
ISBN: 9780593969069
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
Ice Breakers
By: Tom and Jerry Caraccioli
Illustrated by:
Ellen Philpott
Ellen Philpott
ISBN: 9780760395691
Nonfiction, 7-12, Sports / Games / Recreation
The Music Inside Us
By: James Howe
Illustrated by:
Jack Wong
Jack Wong
ISBN: 9781419755217
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography / Memoir
The Streetcar to Life
By: Tea Ranno, Edited by Carol Lynch Williams
ISBN: 9781638193104
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
Seen and Unseen
By: Lauren Tamaki
Illustrated by:
Elizabeth Partridge
Elizabeth Partridge
ISBN: 9781452165103
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
Thao—A Picture Book
By: Thao Lam
Illustrated by:
Thao Lam
Thao Lam
ISBN: 9781771474320
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography / Memoir
We Sing from the Heart—The Slants® Took Their Fight for Free Speech to the Supreme Court
By: Mia Wenjen
Illustrated by:
Victor Bizar Gómez
Victor Bizar Gómez
ISBN: 9781636550879
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
