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14 of the Best Books and Articles on: Childhood Narratives

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Daughter of the Regiment: Memoirs of a Childhood in the Frontier Army, 1878-1898 » Read Now
by Mary Leefe Laurence, Thomas T. Smith. 208 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

"For children, who didn't know they were living under hardship, life on a western military post was exciting. . . . This account records a child's view of the military's last hurrah in the West."-Denver Post. "Written in 1944-45, the book offers Mary Leefe Laurence's eyewitness account, from ages...
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"For children, who didn't know they were living under hardship, life on a western military post was exciting. . . . This account records a child's view of the military's last hurrah in the West."-Denver Post. "Written in 1944-45, the book offers Mary Leefe Laurence's eyewitness account, from ages six to 26, of life at a series of frontier forts, including Fort Dodge and Fort Leavenworth. . . . Laurence offers rare glimpses of Western life and of a handful of historic figures, including Geronimo."-Publishers Weekly. "The only known book-length memoir of childhood in the post-Civil War army . . . This rare memoir deserves a wide audience."-Kansas History.The young daughter of an English-born U. S. infantry officer on the post-Civil War frontier, Mary Leefe Laurence had the childhood of an army nomad, accompanying the regiment from south Texas to the Canadian border. In faithfully recording her travels, she offers extensive and unique insight into life as a child and adolescent in the twilight of the Indian-fighting army.Thomas T. Smith is a Regular Army Major of Infantry on assignment to the United States Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He is the editor of A Dose of Frontier Soldiering: The Memoirs of Coporal E. A. Bode, Frontier Regular Infantry, 1877-1882.
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A Short Season: Story of a Montana Childhood » Read Now
by Don Morehead, Ann Morehead. 192 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

A Short Season is Don Morehead's bittersweet story of growing up on a Montana ranch during the 1940s. In 1941 his parents eagerly took up residence on a ten-thousand-acre sheep ranch in northern Montana. The entire family was soon caught up in the natural rhythm and grueling work of ranch life...
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A Short Season is Don Morehead's bittersweet story of growing up on a Montana ranch during the 1940s. In 1941 his parents eagerly took up residence on a ten-thousand-acre sheep ranch in northern Montana. The entire family was soon caught up in the natural rhythm and grueling work of ranch life, meeting those challenges with energy, patience, and humor. The driving force behind the ranch and family was the father, Bill Morehead, the "hub around which activity spun". Don especially was drawn into his father's world, rarely leaving his side, and becoming known as his "small partner". When his father died suddenly in 1948, Don was left with lingering, irreducible grief and loneliness. Replete with marvelous details of ranching life, Don Morehead's story is also a sobering and moving meditation on childhood and the special relationship that can develop between father and son. Morehead returns us to the quiet surprises of the first short season with our parents and helps us better understand the inevitable sadness of moving on.
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Bead on an Anthill: A Lakota Childhood » Read Now
by Delphine Red Shirt. 148 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Delphine Red Shirt is an enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe and represents the tribe at the United Nations. This book offers an account of her experiences growing up...
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My Indian Boyhood » Read Now
by Luther Standing Bear. 190 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...or seven years of age, I realized that I had done something which I must not do again. To this day I look back upon my childhood and say with pride that, in all the days...
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Adobe Days: Being the Truthful Narrative of the Events in the Life of a California Girl on a Sheep Ranch and in El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora de Los Angeles While It Was Yet a Small and Humble Town » Read Now
by Sarah Bixby Smith. 148 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...of yesterday. A few scant narratives may exist but they are the...actual life and actions of childhood. Herein they are all graphically...wrote a short account of my...
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Moving to Nowhere: Children's Stories of Homelessness » Read Now
by Mary E. Walsh. 192 pgs.

Collections: Entire Library

This sensitive, insightful, and troubling book communicates, through the voices of children, the harsh life experiences of homelessness. Skilled clinical-developmental psychologist Dr. Mary Walsh presents a study that both analyzes the problem of homelessness and conveys the sadness, confusion...
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This sensitive, insightful, and troubling book communicates, through the voices of children, the harsh life experiences of homelessness. Skilled clinical-developmental psychologist Dr. Mary Walsh presents a study that both analyzes the problem of homelessness and conveys the sadness, confusion, poverty, loneliness, and uncertainty with which "shelter" children must cope. Individual chapters address basic relationships common to all children--family, friends, and school--and then consider how these relationships are impacted by homelessness, the factors which lead to this condition, and the crowded, stressful life in the shelters.
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A Place in El Paso: A Mexican-American Childhood » Read Now
by Gloria Lopez-Stafford. 212 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...PLACE IN EL PASO A Mexican-American Childhood A PLACE IN Gloria Lopez-Stafford...place in El Paso: a Mexican-American childhood Gloria Lopez-Stafford.--1st ed. p...1...
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Soldier: A Poet's Childhood » Read Now
by June Jordan. 270 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Some of Us Did Not Die Brings together a rich sampling of the late poet June Jordan's prose writings. The essays in this collection, which include her last writings and...
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Street Children in Kenya: Voices of Children in Search of a Childhood » Read Now
by Philip Kilbride, Collette Suda, Enos Njeru. 162 pgs.

Collections: Entire Library

The authors begin with an overview of homeless children around the world, then focus on the situation in Nairobi, Kenya.
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Dry Tears: The Story of a Lost Childhood (Holocaust childhood) » Read Now
by Nechama Tec. 242 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...DRY TEARS DRY TEARS The Story of a Lost Childhood NECHAMA TEC New York OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS OXFORD...epilogue. 1. Holocaust, Jewish 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives. 2...
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Flares of Memory: Stories of Childhood during the Holocaust » Read Now
by Anita Brostoff, Sheila Chamovitz. 344 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

In a series of writing workshops at the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh, survivors who were children or teens during World War II assembled to remember the pivotal moments in which their lives were irreparably changed by the Nazis. These "flares of memory" preserve the voices of over forty Jews from...
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In a series of writing workshops at the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh, survivors who were children or teens during World War II assembled to remember the pivotal moments in which their lives were irreparably changed by the Nazis. These "flares of memory" preserve the voices of over forty Jews from throughout Europe who experienced a history that cannot be forgotten. Ninety-two brief vignettes arranged both chronologically and thematically recreate the disbelief and chaos that ensued as families were separated, political rights were abolished, and synagogues and Jewish businesses were destroyed. Survivors remember the daily humiliation, the quiet heroes among their friends, and the painful abandonment by neighbors as Jews were restricted to ghettos, forced to don yellow stars, and loaded like cattle into trains. Vivid memories of hunger, disease, and a daily existence dependent on cruel luck provide penetrating testimonies to the ruthlessness of the Nazi killing machine, yet they also bear witness to the resilience and fortitude of individual souls bombarded by evil. "I don't think that there will be many readers who will be able to put this book down."--Jerome Chanes, National Foundation for Jewish Culture
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Thirty Years in a Red House: A Memoir of Childhood and Youth in Communist China » Read Now
by Zhu Di Xiao. 255 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

This is the personal account of a man who grew up in China and witnessed tumultuous years of the Cultural Revolution. Born in Nanjing in 1958, Zhu Xiao Di was the son of idealistic, educated parents. His father and uncles joined the Communist movement in the 1930s during the Japanese occupation and...
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This is the personal account of a man who grew up in China and witnessed tumultuous years of the Cultural Revolution. Born in Nanjing in 1958, Zhu Xiao Di was the son of idealistic, educated parents. His father and uncles joined the Communist movement in the 1930s during the Japanese occupation and were influential underground and military leaders throughout the revolution. Despite their honorable history, they fell into political disfavor by the time of the Cultural Revolution. In 1968, when Zhu was just ten years old, his mother and father were taken to different labor camps for "rehabilitation". In the face of this injustice, the Zhus struggled to maintain family ties and uphold traditional values. Eventually, the family was reunited and restored to some measure of prominence, and a monument was later erected in Nanjing in honor of Zhu's father, Zhu Qiluan. At the heart of this narrative are the trials of a family caught in the crosscurrents of history - from the early attractions of the Communist revolution to the national disaster that followed and the subsequent odyssey of recovery.
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Selma, Lord, Selma: Girlhood Memories of the Civil-Rights Days » Read Now
by Sheyann Webb, Rachel West Nelson, Frank Sikora. 150 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...SELMA, LORD, SELMA Sheyann Webb Rachel West Nelson SELMA, LORD, SELMA GIRLHOOD MEMORIES OF THE CIVIL-RIGHTS DAYS as told to Frank Sikora THE...
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Souls Looking Back: Life Stories of Growing Up Black » Read Now
by Andrew Garrod, Robert Kilkenny, Tracy L. Robinson, Janie Victoria Ward. 298 pgs.

Collections: History, Education, Entire Library

A collection of sixteen autobiographical essays by Africans in America, Afro-Caribbean and bi-racial college students, which explore the process of self-discovery and realization of cultural identity. They are accompanied by commentary from prominent African-American scholars Jewelle Taylor Gibbs...
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A collection of sixteen autobiographical essays by Africans in America, Afro-Caribbean and bi-racial college students, which explore the process of self-discovery and realization of cultural identity. They are accompanied by commentary from prominent African-American scholars Jewelle Taylor Gibbs and Peter C. Murrell. Together they create a vivid portrait of what it is like to grow up a a black person in America and offer a springboard to current debates about cultural identity and assimilation.
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