Search by: 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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+
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+
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
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
FEVER—How Tu Youyou Adapted Traditional Chinese Medicine to Find a Cure for Malaria
By: Darcy Pattison
Illustrated by:
Peter Willia
Peter Willia
ISBN: 9781629441955
Nonfiction, 7-12, Science / Nature
Friend of Numbers—The Life of Mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan
By: Priya Narayanan
Illustrated by:
Satwik Gade
Satwik Gade
ISBN: 9780802856081
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
If Lin Can
By: Richard Ho
Illustrated by:
Huynh Kim Liên and Phùng Nguyên Quang
Huynh Kim Liên and Phùng Nguyên Quang
ISBN: 9781623543723
Nonfiction, 4-6, BIPOC Characters and Creators
The Longest Shot—How Larry Kwong Changed the Face of Hockey
By: Chad Soon, George Chiang
Illustrated by:
Amy Qi
Amy Qi
ISBN: 9781459835030
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
Mami King—How Ma Mon Luk Found Love, Riches, and the Perfect Bowl of Soup
By: Jacqueline Chio-Lauri
Illustrated by:
Kristin Sorra
Kristin Sorra
ISBN: 9781728492353
Nonfiction, 4-6, Food / Cooking
The Rock in My Throat
By: Kao Kalia Yang
Illustrated by:
Jiemei Lin
Jiemei Lin
ISBN: 9781728445687
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
Seeker of Truth—Kailash Satyarthi’s Fight to End Child Labor
By: Srividhya Venkat
Illustrated by:
Danica da Silva Pereira
Danica da Silva Pereira
ISBN: 9781499815696
Nonfiction, 4-6, 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
Where Butterflies Fill the Sky
By: Zahra Marwan
ISBN: 9781547606511
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography / Memoir
Chef Roy Choi and The Street Food Remix
By: Jacqueline Briggs Martin & June Jo Lee
Illustrated by:
Man One
Man One
ISBN: 9780998436654
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
Chloe Kim—The Next GOAT series
By: Corina Jeffries
ISBN: 9781499449648
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
Beyond They/Them—20 Influential Nonbinary and Gender-Diverse People You Should Know
By: Em Dickson
Illustrated by:
Cameron Mukwa
Cameron Mukwa
ISBN: 9781524893996
Nonfiction, Teen, LGBTQIA+
CLIMATE—How Wladimir Köppen Studied Weather and Drew the First Climate Map
By: Darcy Pattison
Illustrated by:
Peter Willis
Peter Willis
ISBN: 9781629443058
Nonfiction, 7-12, Science / Nature
Ducks—Two Years in the Oil Sands
By: Kate Beaton
Illustrated by:
Kate Beaton
Kate Beaton
ISBN: 9781770467125
Nonfiction, Teen, Biography / Memoir
LGBTQ+ Heroes—51 Inspiring Icons Who Changed the World
By: L. V. Heston
Illustrated by:
Helder Oliveira
Helder Oliveira
ISBN: 9798886081473
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
Smash, Crash, Topple, Roll!
By: Catherine Thimmesh
Illustrated by:
Shanda McCloskey
Shanda McCloskey
ISBN: 9781452144221
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
Where Are You, Brontë?
By: Tomie dePaola
Illustrated by:
Barbara McClintock
Barbara McClintock
ISBN: 9781534418509
Nonfiction, 4-6, Animals
Carol Gilligan and the Search for Voice
By: Bill Cole
Illustrated by:
Sarah Green
Sarah Green
ISBN: 9781433843532
Nonfiction, Teen, Biography / Memoir
Gifts from the Garbage Truck—A True Story About the Things We (Don’t) Throw Away
By: Andrew Larsen
Illustrated by:
Oriol Vidal
Oriol Vidal
ISBN: 9781728283517
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography / Memoir
Lady Sunflower—stories, songs, and poems from the desk of kill.gertrude
By: Sierra Shuck-Sparer
Illustrated by:
Chloe Tyler
Chloe Tyler
ISBN: 9781486729869
Nonfiction, Teen, Mental / Physical Health
My Lost Freedom—A Japanese American WWII Story
By: George Takei
Illustrated by:
Michelle Lee
Michelle Lee
ISBN: 9780593566350
Nonfiction, 4-6, Social Activism / Equality / Feminism
Little Jade—Memoir of a Young Eurasian Immigrant
By: Katherine Haas
Illustrated by:
Cover Design by Zina Fattah
Cover Design by Zina Fattah
ISBN: 9798990856905
Nonfiction, Teen, Biography / Memoir
Abzuglutely!—Battling, Bellowing Bella Abzug
By: Sarah Aronson
Illustrated by:
Andrea D'Aquino
Andrea D'Aquino
ISBN: 9781635928075
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
Mamie Phipps Clark, Champion for Children
By: Lynnette Mawhinney
Illustrated by:
Neil Evans
Neil Evans
ISBN: 9781433830488
Nonfiction, Teen, Biography / Memoir
Barracoon—Adapted for Young Readers
By: Zora Neale Hurston
Illustrated by:
Jazzmen Lee-Johnson
Jazzmen Lee-Johnson
ISBN: 9780063098336
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
Heroes of World War II—25 True Stories of Unsung Heroes Who Fought for Freedom
By: Jarett Keene
Illustrated by:
Ricardo Gualberto
Ricardo Gualberto
ISBN: 9781638191711
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
