Category Notable Nonfiction

Solito Javier Zamora Memoir Trip. My parents started using that word about a year ago—“one day, you’ll take a trip to be with us. Like an adventure.”   Javier Zamora’s adventure is a three-thousand-mile journey from his small town in El…

Tisha Robert Specht Memoir “From the time I’d been a girl, I’d been thrilled with the idea of living on a frontier. So when I was offered the job of teaching school in a gold-mining settlement called Chicken, I accepted…

The Happiest Man On Earth Eddie Jaku Memoir Born in Leipzig, Germany, into a Jewish family, Eddie Jaku was a teenager when his world was turned upside-down. On November 9, 1938, during the terrifying violence of Kristallnacht, the Night of…

I Am Malala Malala Yousafzai Memoir I Am Malala. This is my story. Malala Yousafzai was only ten years old when the Taliban took control of her region. They said music was a crime. They said women weren’t allowed to…