Working toward manhood on the plains of 1940s Colorado gave one small boy lessons for life....

Zetta Barker Hamby was born in the Blue Ridge of Appalachia and, during a rich, rural mountain life, experienced the advent of the telephone, the automobile, electricity, radio, television and the airplane. To set down what life was like in...

“Agood place to be from.” That’s how some people might characterize the Buckeye State. The writings in Good Roots: Writers Reflect on Growing Up in Ohio, are testimony to the truth of that statement. By prominent writers such as P....

"[A] charmingly bittersweet memoir." — The Boston Globe New York Times Book Review This memoir of youth should be appreciated not only by adults who grew up through the fires of their own youthful rebellion, but by those restless young...

Originating with an article the author wrote for Smithsonian magazine in 1994, this memoir reveals the unique duality of Southern Jews and is a serious examination of the tension between two cultures. Although there have been other fine books about...

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Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton gives American kids a firsthand look at growing up in Kenya as a member of a tribe of nomads whose livelihood centers on the raising and grazing of cattle. Readers share Lekuton's first encounter with a lion,...

Debra Marquart grew up on a family farm in rural North Dakota-on land her family had worked for generations. From the earliest age she knew she wanted out; surely life had more to offer than this unyielding daily grind, she...

Chonda Pierce, spunky preacher's daughter that she is, will do more than tickle your ribs. She'll touch the place in you where laughter and tears dwell side by side....

Too often, the stories of many men of color's lives today are full of waste, violence, struggle, and self-destruction. But there are many men who grow up in challenging circumstances, with all odds against them, and still find success. God Gave Me Some Bad...