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- Searching for Laura Ingalls, a reader's journey, by Kathryn Lasky and Meribah Knight ; photographs by Christopher G. Knight
- Bad boy, a memoir, by Walter Dean Myers
- How Angel Peterson got his name, and other outrageous tales about extreme sports, Gary Paulsen
- Sorrow's kitchen, the life and folklore of Zora Neale Hurston, Mary E. Lyons
- Here we all are, written and illustrated by Tomie DePaola
- Library of literary criticism of English and American authors, edited by Charles Wells Moulton ; assisted by a corps of able contributors. --, V. 7 1875-1890
- The story of Harriet Beecher Stowe, by Maureen Ash
- Thomas Merton, Samuel Willard Crompton ; introductory essay by Martin E. Marty
- A boy, a mouse, and a spider, the story of E.B. White, Barbara Herkert ; illustrated by Lauren Castillo
- Pioneer girl, the story of Laura Ingalls Wilder, by William Anderson ; illustrations by Dan Andreasen
- King of the mild frontier, an ill-advised autobiography, by Chris Crutcher
- Herman Melville, Rebecca Stefoff
- The princess diarist, Carrie Fisher
- Edgar Allan Poe, Suzanne LeVert ; [introductory essay by Vito Perrone]
- Bill Peet, an autobiography, Bill Peet
- Bad boy, a memoir, Walter Dean Myers
- Ezra Jack Keats, a biography for young readers, Dean Engel and Florence B. Freedman
- Louisa May, the world and works of Louisa May Alcott, Norma Johnston
- Frances Hodgson Burnett, author of The secret garden, by Carol Greene
- Stephen Crane, by Mark Sufrin
- Life doesn't frighten me, poem, by Maya Angelou ; paintings by Jean-Michel Basquiat ; edited by Sara Jane Boyers
- A New England love story, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Sophia Peabody, by LouAnn Gaeddert. --
- American boy, the adventures of Mark Twain, written and illustrated by Don Brown
- The spying heart, more thoughts on reading and writing books for children, Katherine Paterson
- Becoming Madeleine, a biography of the author of A wrinkle in time by her granddaughters, Charlotte Jones Voiklis and Léna Roy
- What a year!, by Tomie dePaola
- Henry David Thoreau, writer, thinker, naturalist, Pat McCarthy
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, the father of the American renaissance, J. Poolos
- Imagine that!, how Dr. Seuss wrote The cat in the hat, by Judy Sierra ; illustrated by Kevin Hawkes
- On my way, written and illustrated by Tomie dePaola
- The important thing about Margaret Wise Brown, Mac Barnett and Sarah Jacoby
- L. Frank Baum, royal historian of Oz, Angelica Shirley Carpenter and Jean Shirley
- Edward Stratemeyer : creator of the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew, Brenda Lange
- Ralph Ellison, Jack Bishop. --
- Looking back, a book of memories, Lois Lowry
- Literary friends and acquaintance, a personal retrospect of American authorship, by W. D. Howells
- Flora and Tiger, 19 very short stories from my life, Eric Carle
- Library of literary criticism of English and American authors, edited by Charles Wells Moulton ; assisted by a corps of able contributors. --, V. 5
- Little author in the big woods, a biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder, Yona Zeldis McDonough ; illustrated by Jennifer Thermes
- A girl from Yamhill, a memoir, Beverly Cleary
- Alice Walker, Tony Gentry
- Becoming Dr. Seuss, Theodor Geisel and the making of an American imagination, Brian Jay Jones
- A brilliant streak, the making of Mark Twain, by Kathryn Lasky ; illustrated by Barry Moser
- Rebel in the rye, IFC Films ; Black Label Media ; Bloom ; written and directed by Danny Strong ; produced by Bruce Cohen, Jason Shuman, Danny Strong, Molly Smith, Thad Luckinbill, Trent Luckinbill ; a Black Label Media, West Madison Entertainment, Bloom presentation ; a Bruce Cohen, Jason Shuman, Villa Stanley production ; a Danny Strong film
- Hole in my life, a memoir by Jack Gantos, Jack Gantos
- Together, memoir of a marriage and a medical mishap, by Judy Goldman
- Purple Mountain majesties, the story of Katharine Lee Bates and America the beautiful, by Barbara Younger ; illustrated by Stacey Schuett
- Planting stories, the life of librarian and storyteller Pura Belpré, words by Anika Aldamuy Denise ; illustrations by Paola Escobar
- Figures in a landscape, people and places : essays: 2001-2016, Paul Theroux
- Extraordinary magic, the storytelling life of Virginia Hamilton, poems and pictures by Nina Crews