Best young adult biographies

We enjoy recommending a top-notch memoir or biography to the young adult readers we are familiar with. There isn’t a better approach to enable children to relate to the history and see life from another person’s perspective.

Here are our top picks for recent teen memoirs and biographies.

1. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers by Deborah Heiligman

Heiligman details the extraordinary and bizarre lives of the Van Gogh brothers, their interactions with one another, and their creative output.

1. Ten Days a Madwoman: The Daring Life and Turbulent Times of the Original Girl Reporter by Deborah Noyes

Nellie Bly, well-known for her breakthrough work documenting the abuse of asylum patients, defied the stereotypes of female reporters and became a trailblazing columist.

1. Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings: A Memoir by Margarita Engle

In a poem, Engle describes the stress of juggling two worlds, Cuba and LA.

1. Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of