LIFE STORY BOOKS

BIBLIOGRAPHY:  A WORK IN PROGRESS

CIVIL RIGHTS, POVERTY, & REFUGEES: A BATTLE FOR EQUALITY AND FREEDOM

Cary, Lorene (1992).  Black Ice.  New York:  Vintage Books

Comer, James (1998).  Maggie’s American Dream: The Life and Times of a Black Family.  New York:  Plume.

Crow Dog, Mary (1990).  Lakota Woman.  New York:  Harper Collins.

Fadiman, Anne (1997). The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down:  A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures.  New York:  Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Golden, Marita (1995). Saving Our Sons.  New York:  Anchor.

Harris, E. Lynn (2003).  What Becomes of the Brokenhearted:  A Memoir.  New York:  Doubleday.

Hunter-Gault, C. (1993).  In My Place.   New York:  Vintage.

Kidder, Tracy. (1989).  Among School Children.  New York:  Houghton Mifflin

Kidder, Tracy. (2004).  Mountain Beyond Mountain.  New York:  Random House.

Kozol, J. (1992).  Savage Inequalities.  New York:  Harper Perennial.

Martin, Reed (1991).  Extraordinary Children, Ordinary Lives:  Stories Behind Special Education Case Law.  Champaign, IL:  Research.

Patillo-Beals, Melba. (1994). Warriors Don’t Cry:  A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock’s Central High.  New York:  Washington Square.

Ray, Janisse (1999). Ecology of a Cracker Childhood.  Minneapolis,MN:  Milkweed.

Sheehy, Gail. (1986). New Spirit of Survival.  New York: Bantam.

Ung, Loung (2000). First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers.  New York:  Harper Collins.

 LEARNING DISABILITIES

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ATTENTION DEFICIT/HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER

Colin, Ann. (1996). Willie:  Raising and Loving a Child with ADD. New York:  Viking.

Fowler, Mary. (1994). Maybe You Know My Kid:  A Parent’s Guide to Identifying, Understanding and Helping Your Child with ADHD.  New York:  Birch Lane Press.

Lee, Christopher & Jackson, Rosemary. (1992). Faking It: A Look into the Mind of a Creative Learner.  Portsmouth:  Boynton/Cook Publishers.

Lee, Christopher & Jackson, Rosemary. (2001). What About Me?  Portsmouth, NH:  Heinemann /Cook.

Mooney, Jonathan (2000).  Learning Outside the Lines:  Two Ivy League Students with Learning Disabilities and ADHD Give You the Tools for Academic Success and Educational Revolution.  New York:  Simon & Schuster

Rodis, Pano; Garrod, Andrew; & Boscardin, Mary Lynn. (2001). Learning Disabilities & Life Stories.  Boston: Allyn and Bacon.

Roseman, Bruce. (2001). A Kid Just Like Me:  A Father and Son Overcome the Challenges of ADD and Learning Disabilities.  New York:  Perigree.

AUTISM, ASPERGER’S SYNDROME, AND PERVASIVE DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS

Barron, Judy & Barron, Sean. (1992). There's A Boy in Here.  New York:  Simon & Schuster.

Davis, Bill (2001). Breaking Autism’s Barrier:  A Father’s Story.  Philadelphia:  Jessica Kingsley.

Fling, Echo (2000). Eating an Artichoke:  A Mother’s Perspective on Asperger Syndrome.  Philadelphia:  Jessica Kingsley.

Grandin, Temple. (1995). Thinking in Pictures and Other Reports from My Life with Autism. New York:  Vintage Books.

Haddon, Mark (2003). The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.  New York:  Doubleday.

Hart, Charles. (1992). Without Reason:  A Family Copes with Two Generations of Autism.  New York:  Harper & Row.

Jackson, Luke. (2002). Freaks, Geeks, and Asperger Syndrome:  A User Guide to Adolescence. Philadelphia:  Jessica Kinglsey.

Maurice, Catherine. (1993). Let Me Hear Your Voice. New York: Ballantine Books.

Osborne, Lawrence (2000). American Normal:  The Hidden World of Asperger Syndrome.  New York:  Copernicus Books

Prince-Hughes, Dawn (2004). Songs of the Gorilla Nation:  My Journey through Autism.  New York:  Harmony Books.

Schulze, Craig. (1993). When Snow Turns to Rain:  One Family's Struggle to Solve the Riddle of Autism.   Woodbine House

Wiley, Lianne. (1999). Pretending to be Normal.  London: Jessica Kingsley.

Williams, Donna. (1992). Nobody/Nowhere.  New York:  Times Books.

SEVERE AND PROFOUND DISABILITIES

Berube, Michael. (1996). Life As We Know It.  New York: Random House.

Featherstone, Helen.  (1980). A Difference in the Family Living with a Disabled Child. New York: Penguin.

Kupfer, Fern. (1982). Before and After Zachariah.  New York: Delacorte,

Sienkiewicz-Mercer, Ruth & Kaplan, Steve. (1989). I Raise My Eyes to Say Yes   Boston:  Houghton Mifflin.

Simons, Robin. (1987). After the Tears.  New York, Harcourt Brace & Jovanovich.

CHRONIC PHYSICAL ILLNESS

Grealy, Lucy (1994). Autobiography of a Face.  New York:  HarperCollins.

Gregory, Julie (2003). Sickened:  The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood.  New York:  Random House.

Handler, Evan (1996). Time on Fire:  My Comedy of Errors.  New York:  Henry Holt.

Louganis, Greg. (1996). Breaking the Surface.  New York: Penguin.

Rothenberg, Laura (2004). Breathing for a Living: A Memoir.  New York:  Hyperion.

White, Ryan & Cunningham, Anne Marie. (1992). Ryan White:  My Own Story.  New York:  Signet.

Wooten, Jim (2004). We Are All the Same.  New York:  Penguin.

DEPRESSION & SUICIDE

Berger, Dianne & Berger, Lisa. (1991). We Heard the Angels of Madness: A Family Guide To Coping with Manic Depression.  New York: Quill William Morrow.

Carlson, Trudy (1998). Ben's Story:  The Depression, ADHD & Anxiety Disorder that Caused His Suicide. MN:  Benline Press.

Hannon, Bill (1997). Agents in My Brain:  How I Survived Manic Depression.  Peru, ILL:  Open Court.

Jamison, Kay Redfield. (1995). An Unquiet Mind:  A Memoir of Moods and Madness.  New York:  A.A. Knopf.

Kaysen, Susanna. (1993). Girl, Interrupted.  New York:  Vintage.

Manning, Martha. (1995). Undercurrents. (San Francisco:  Harper.

Slaby, Andrew & Garfinkel, Lili Frank. (1994). No One Say My Pain.  New York:  Norton.

Thompson, Tracy. (1995). The Beast:  A Reckoning of Depression.  New York:  G.P. Putnam.

Steele, Danielle (1998). His Bright Light:  The Story of Nick Traina. New York:  Delacorte.

SEVERE MENTAL ILLNESS

Elgin, Tara. (1997). My Mother’s Keeper: A Daughter’s Memoir of Growing Up in the Shadow of Schizophrenia. New York: Avon Books.

Schiller, Lori (1994). The Quiet Room:  A Journey out of the Torment of Madness.  New York:  Warner.

Simon, Clea. (1997). Madhouse:  Growing Up in the Shadow of Mental Illness.  New York:  Penguin.

CHILD ABUSE AND TRAUMA 

Allison, Dorothy. (1992). Bastard Out of Carolina.  New York:  Dutton Books.

Blanco, Jodee. (2003). Please Stop Laughing at Me: One Woman’s Inspirational Story.  Avon, MA:  Adams Media Corporation.

Chase, Truddi. (1987). When Rabbit Howls.  (New York: Jove Books.

Cournos, Francine. (1999). City of One: A Memoir.  New York: Penguin Group.

Harrison, Kathryn (2003). Another Place at the Table:  A Story of Shattered Childhoods Redeemed by Love.  New York:  J. P. Tarcher.

Lauck, Jennifer. (2000). Blackbird:  A Childhood Lost and Found.  New York:  Washington Square Press.

Miniter, Richard. (1998). The Things I Want Most: The Extraordinary Story of a Boy’s Journey to a Family of His Own.  New York: Bantam Books.

Pelzer, David. (1995). A Child Called “It”.  Florida: Health Communications.

Pelzer, David. (1997). The Lost Boy.  Florida: Health Communications.

Pelzer, David. (1999). A Man Named Dave: A Story of Triumph and Forgiveness. 

Smith, Carole. (1998). The Magic Castle.  New York:  St. Martin’s.

EATING DISORDERS

Gottlieb, Lori. (2000). Stick Figure:  A Diary of My Former Self.  New York:  Simon & Schuster.

Gould, John ((1993). The Withering Child.  Athens, GA:  University of Georgia.

Hornbacher, Marya. (1999). Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia.  New York: Harper Collins.

Karasik, Paul (2003). The Ride Together:  A Brother and Sister’s Memoir of Autism in the Family.  New York:  Washington Square...

Krasnow, Michael. (1996). My Life as a Male Anorexic.  New York: Harrington Park Press.

Smith, Chelsea & Runyon, Beverly. (1998).  Diary of an Eating Disorder:  A Mother and Daughter Share their Healing Journey.  Dallas:  Taylor.

Wilensky, Amy (2004). The Weight of It.  New York:  Henry Holt

SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND DELINQUENCY

Callahan, John. (1989). Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot.  New York:  William Morrow.

Carcaterra, Lorenzo (1995). Sleepers.  New York:  Ballantine Books.

Cheever, Susan. (1999). Note Found in a Bottle: My Life as a Drinker: A Memoir.  New York: Pocket Books.

Cutler, Evan Karl (1994). Runaway:  A Survivor’s Story. Fort Collins, CO:  Blooming.

Dorris, Michael. (1989). The Broken Cord.  New York: Harper Perennial.

Knapp, Caroline. (1996).. Drinking:  A Love Story.  New York:  Dial.

Lau, Evelyn. (1995). Runaway Diary of a Street Kid.  Toronto, Canada: Coach House.

McCall, Nathan. (1994). Makes Me Wanna Holler.  New York:  Random House.

McCourt, Frank. (1996) Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir.  New York:  Scribner.

McGovern, George. (1997). Terry: My Daughter’s Life-And-Death Struggle With Alcoholism.  Plume.

Robb, Daniel. (2001). Crossing the Water: Eighteen Months on an Island Working with Troubled Boys – A Teacher’s Memoir.  New York:  Simon & Schuster.

Staples, Brent. (1994). Parallel Time.  New York:  Pantheon.

ANXIETY, TOURETTE’S SYNDROME, & OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER 

Handler, Lowell (1998). Twitch and Shout:  A Touretter's Tale. New York:  E.P. Dutton.

Kettlewell, Caroline. (1999). Skin Game: A Memoir.  New York: St. Martin’s Griffin.

Rapoport, Judith (1989). The Boy Who Couldn’t Stop Washing:  The Experience and Treatment of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.  New York:  Dutton.

Seligman, Adam Ward & Hilkevich, John S. (Eds.) (1992). Don’t Think About the Monkey:  Extraordinary Stories Written by People with Tourette Syndrome.   Duarte, CA:  Hope Press.

Wilensky, Amy. (1999). Passing For Normal: A Memoir of Compulsion. New York: Broadway Books.