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- How Angel Peterson got his name, and other outrageous tales about extreme sports, Gary Paulsen
- Alabama spitfire, the story of Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird, written by Bethany Hegedus ; illustrated by Erin McGuire
- 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
- My life in dog years, Gary Paulsen
- A year in the woods, excerpts from Walden, by Henry David Thoreau ; illustrated by Giovanni Manna
- A boy, a mouse, and a spider, the story of E.B. White, Barbara Herkert ; illustrated by Lauren Castillo
- The princess diarist, Carrie Fisher
- Bill Peet, an autobiography, Bill Peet
- Travels with Charley, in search of America, John Steinbeck
- Solid seasons, the friendship of Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson, Jeffrey S. Cramer
- American authors' ancestry, (including some others who have influenced life wisely- divines, diplomats, jurists, philanthropists, reformers, and benefactors), John Austin
- Imagine that!, how Dr. Seuss wrote The cat in the hat, by Judy Sierra ; illustrated by Kevin Hawkes
- 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
- Amy Tan, Chip Shields
- Looking back, a book of memories, Lois Lowry
- A man named Thoreau, by Robert Burleigh ; illustrated by Lloyd Bloom. --
- Marc Brown, Mae Woods
- Laura Ingalls Wilder, storyteller of the Prairie, Ginger Wadsworth
- Stan and Jan Berenstain, Mae Woods
- American boy, the adventures of Mark Twain, written and illustrated by Don Brown
- Dr. Seuss, by Dana Meachen Rau
- Becoming Dr. Seuss, Theodor Geisel and the making of an American imagination, Brian Jay Jones
- Little author in the big woods, a biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder, Yona Zeldis McDonough ; illustrated by Jennifer Thermes
- Who was Mark Twain?, by April Jones Prince ; illustrated by John O'Brien
- 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
- American audacity, in defense of literary daring, William Giraldi
- Great lives, American literature, Doris Faber and Harold Faber
- I begin with spring, the life and seasons of Henry David Thoreau, written by Julie Dunlap ; illustrated by Megan Elizabeth Baratta
- Isaac Asimov--scientist and storyteller, Ellen Erlanger. --
- Harriet Beecher Stowe, LeeAnne Gelletly
- Oh, the places he went, a story about Dr. Seuss--Theodore Seuss Geisel, by Maryann N. Weidt ; illustrations by Kerry Maguire
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh, pilot and poet, Roxane Chadwick. --
- Norman Bridwell, Jill C. Wheeler
- Hole in my life, a memoir by Jack Gantos, Jack Gantos
- Together, memoir of a marriage and a medical mishap, by Judy Goldman
- Big machines, the story of Virginia Lee Burton, by Sherri Duskey Rinker ; illustrated by John Rocco
- Writing for freedom, a story about Lydia Maria Child, by Erica Stux ; illustrations by Mary O'Keefe Young
- The wall, growing up behind the Iron Curtain, Peter Sís
- Ernest Hemingway, a biography, Mary V. Dearborn
- Stories of my life, Katherine Paterson
- All the wild that remains, Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West, David Gessner
- Knots in my yo-yo string, the autobiography of a kid, by Jerry Spinelli
- 26 Fairmount Avenue, Tomie dePaola
- Louisa May Alcott, Elizabeth Silverthorne
- Caught by the sea, my life on boats, Gary Paulsen
- Dr. Seuss, best-loved author, Carin T. Ford
- Shel Silverstein, by Elisa Ludwig