Kategoria BISAC: Juvenile Nonfiction >> Biography & Autobiography - General

Growing up, Gaby Rodriguez was often told she would end up a teen mom. After all, her mother and her older sisters had gotten pregnant as teenagers; from an outsider's perspective, it was practically a family tradition. Gaby had ambitions that didn't include teen motherhood. But she wondered: how would she be treated if she "lived down" to others' expectations? Would everyone ignore the years she put into being a good student and see her as just...

In 1995, during her senior year in high school, Brandy Martin tragically passed away following a routine surgery. Devastated and heartbroken by the death of her only daughter, Connie Martin was left struggling with the will to live, questioning her own religious faith, and grasping for answers. Love Never Ends is her personal account of an extraordinary journey that begins when a close friend reveals that Brandy has visited her with a message from the other side.

Over the next fifteen years, Brandy continued to find ways to communicate with her mother through people and events in...

As a six-month-old infant, Linda Christianson was diagnosed with poliomyelitis, a highly contagious disease that crippled thousands of children and adults before a vaccine became available in 1953. In her memoir, she now shares the intimate story of her struggle with the disease and of learning to approach her life in as normal a way as possible. She details the struggles that she faced growing up and the challenges that she handles each day of her life.

Because she contracted polio at such a young age, Linda was never able to enjoy the carefree childhood of skipping, dancing, and...

This book tells the real life story of a young lady who falls in love for the first time. The love was so pure, so hot and so tender that within the first few months of her relationship, she gets labeled as a "prostitute," an open stigma that engulfs her entire four year degree course as a university undergraduate. How she coped with the whore stigma and its shame, rejection, intimidation, and all the social stress that comes with such a name, through to the point where she chooses her emotions, and feels totally at peace with herself, is what she desires to share with the readers of this...