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ONCE upon A time, school libraries were limited to collecting expository biographies appropriate for social studies assignments, and public libraries directed their teen patrons to upper-middle grade or teen-friendly narrative [...]

LITERATURE HAS ALWAYS HAD THE POWER TO UPLIFT, providing communities the opportunity to see themselves and offering outsiders windows into the lives of others. Given recent occurrences of Islamophobia throughout [...]

The article reports on the participation of Kaye Johnson, mother of New Jersey (NJ) native George M. Johnson, the author of the book "All Boys Aren't Blue," at the Glen Ridge (NJ) Public Library Board of Trustees meeting in February 2023. George was asked how she is handling so many people across the U.S. protesting the memoir. She debunks a few lies, saying that her book is not for kids, not pornography, and that her book is introducing hard topics to teenagers.

The article discusses the use of first-person graphic memoirs in U.S. classrooms in order to enhance the teaching of history including the graphic memoirs "Darkness: A Memoir in Black and White" by Lila Quintero Weaver, "A Fire Story" by Brian Fies, and "Poppies of Iraq" by Brigitte Findakly.

A MEMOIR IS A NARROW FORM OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY that tells a story from a life rather than the story of a life. Written in the first person, memoirs are created [...]

An interview with author Nikki Grimes about her memoir "Ordinary Hazards" is presented. Topics include the reason behind her decision to write her memoir in verse rather than in narrative prose, whether writing the memoir served as a therapeutic process, her family relationships and the solitary nature of being a writer.