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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In this unputdownable story of nature, nurture, and coming to terms with one's true inheritance, the author, introducing her deeply dysfunctional yet fiercely loving family that is anything but "normal," reveals how a colorful cast of characters were thrown together by chance and DNA"--
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
A preadolescent runaway describes the violence and trauma that marked her early life before the unexpected kindness of a teacher helped her to get off the streets and pursue a master's degree, tracing her subsequent dedication to helping other at-risk youth.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
The author describes how she was held hostage for eighteen years by registered sex offender Phillip Garrido, who sexually abused her and fathered her two children, and how she was finally found by authorities.
Author
Publisher
Raintree Steck-Vaughn
Pub. Date
c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Relates how a series of letters, written by a woman known as Dame Shirley and published in a San Francisco magazine in 1854 and 1855, were instrumental in inciting the California gold rush.
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