Presents the autobiography of Douglass, an American slave, and his journey out of mental and physical bondage.

Each book in this series presents a fun "autobiography" of a popular mythical character. Amusingly illustrated and with simple levelled text, the books will be sure to hook in reluctant readers. The autobiographical style and text in the first person will also make the books work well as example of Common Core genres and text types. In this book, Count Dracula tells his story.

Nessie, the Loch Ness Monster, tells the reader the story of her life, and what it is like to be a famous "monster."

In this bitingly funny and often surprising memoir, award-winning author and groundbreaking comedian Bob Smith offers a meditation on the vitality of the natural world-and an intimate portrait of his own darkly humorous and profoundly authentic response to a life-changing illness. In Treehab-named after a retreat cabin in rural Ontario-Smith muses how he has "always sought the path less traveled." He rebuffs his diagnosis of ALS as only an unflappable...

DuBois's searing, brutally honest memoir of her emotional journey from male to female is occasionally shocking but ultimately joyful. Embracing her identity as a woman, she remade herself. Writing with honesty and humor, she confronts both her past and her present to tell an American story of self-discovery.

Plain tells the story of Mary Alice Hostetter's journey to define an authentic self amid a rigid religious upbringing in a Mennonite farm family. Although endowed with a personality "prone toward questioning and challenging," the young Mary Alice at first wants nothing more than to be a good girl, to do her share, and--alongside her eleven siblings--to work her family's Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, farm. She feels fortunate to have been born into...