Reddit mentions: The best teen & young adult biographies

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1. Bernie Sanders Guide to Political Revolution

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2. Pedro and Me: Friendship, Loss, and What I Learned

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3. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story

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4. Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World

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6. Going Solo

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7. A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver

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8. Artist in Overalls: The Life of Grant Wood

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9. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith

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10. Girl Code: Gaming, Going Viral, and Getting It Done

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11. Lucy Green Eyes: Not Everything Green is Gold

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12. What the World Eats

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13. Blood Brother: Jonathan Daniels and His Sacrifice for Civil Rights

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14. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution

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15. Tomboy: A Graphic Memoir

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16. The Pregnancy Project: A Memoir

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17. You Can Never Find a Rickshaw When It Monsoons - The World on One Cartoon a Day

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18. Zoo Station: The Story of Christiane F. (True Stories)

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19. Go Ask Alice

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20. Basher Five-Two: The True Story of F-16 Fighter Pilot Captain Scott O'Grady

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u/EverlyBrothers · 8 pointsr/IAmA

I am cutting and pasting from a HelloGiggles interview i did because this is not a short list:

EG: I love Gail Collins. She’s a New York Times journalist. She wrote a book called America’s Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines. It’s the feminist history book you never had. It’s a book you cannot put down. It’s so jam packed with information, and you just can’t believe you don’t know this stuff. She has a whole thing about how pioneer women basically built San Francisco. Because when the gold rush happened, there was no one to cook for the men. So women would come out, set up shop, and make tons of money. They were business owners and had autonomy and control of their finances for the first time. Stuff like that. I mean, Bear Grylls would look like Tom Brokaw compared to these pioneer women. That’s not even a good analogy. But these women would like, crawl up mountains while giving birth. Their skirts would catch on fire all the time. The shit that they went through was insane. So you’re reading this, and [Collins is] just giving you all of it. It’s the most fascinating book I’ve ever read.

Of course, all of Roxane Gay’s books. She’s necessary reading. I just read In Her Words, the Eleanor Roosevelt book. That was uplifting, and also so sad to see this woman with this knowledge and access to power whom, if she had been given the chance…god, the things she could have done. You should read Susan Faludi’s Backlash. That’s super necessary feminist reading. I also like this book called White Trash. It’s about America’s history of poverty and how it explains a lot of what’s happening today. But because it’s written by a woman — it’s written by Nancy Isenberg — it has a feminist slant to it. It’s fantastic.

Oh, and Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World by Penelope Bagieu. It’s a graphic novel of incredible women. It’s gorgeous and informative and great. And it’s a great book for a teen, or an adult who likes graphic novels like me. Also Bitch Planet. It’s a graphic novel that’s The Handmaid’s Tale of space. That’s great. And of course, The Handmaid’s Tale. Read Margaret Atwood. And not just The Handmaid’s Tale. She’s written tons of other books that are thematically similar and just as depressing.

Also, Samantha Irby. Her books…I don’t know what to say about her books. I have a really loud laugh, and when something tickles me and gets me really hard, I laugh really loudly. And I do it like, every other page with her.

u/Get_Low · 2 pointsr/IWantToLearn

ahh! I'm sorry. Here are the two books and some general tips.

  • Elementary Drum Method-Roy Burns This book will teach you basic theory, how to read rhythm, and some good basic snare practice. I use it whenever I am teaching rhythm to music students either new percussionists, or brass/woodwind/ etc players that don't know rhythm well.

  • Ultimate Realistic Rock-Carmen Appice This book will teach you how to play drum set. If you work your way through this book you can become a pretty decent drum player. Very well organized and thought through.

  • Check out [Vic Firth's 40 Essential Drum Rudiments] (http://www.vicfirth.com/education/rudiments.php). Learn them. These are super helpful and the site is great.

  • Play along with other tracks. What I did was grab some cheap earbud headphones, then I bought some nice Vic Firth isolation head phones (good for you to wear while practicing anyway). I'd listen to a song a few times, work out the basic rhythm, then keep the earphones in playing the song, the isolation head phones over them, and play along to the track. If you have huge speakers you can also just black a track and play along with it. Some sites have drum track tabs you can look up, sometimes you can figure out the beat by ear, or you can buy books. I own RHCP Stadium Arcadium for drums. Some good tracks to start out with if you're new are Seven Nation Army by the White Stripes, Come As you Are by Nirvanna, and almost any Beatles track. Play you're way through albums. I can give you more suggestions if you'd like. Even if you aren't matching the drummer perfectly, you'll get better by playing with tracks.

  • Buy a metronome. Seriously. You can get a cheap one from Guitar Center or online, it doesn't need to be fancy, it just needs to keep a beat as you begin to learn percussion. Drummers who don't practice with metronomes aren't going to be very talented.

  • Start slow. If you can play a beat slow, you can play it fast. But there are some people who can play rhythms fast, but not slow. Better to do it slow and correct, than fast and incorrect.

  • If you can't play a rhythm 3 times in a row looping it (as in without stopping or breaking), you can't play it. You need repetition and looping.

  • learn to hold stick properly and play with your wrists, not your whole arm.

    I can offer more tips about playing set, snare, mallet instruments, hand drums, buying a set, reading music etc. Send me a PM.

    Sorry this took so long, I had my drum books stashed away (recently moved) and I needed to remember the names.

    edit: formatting

u/Chartis · 1 pointr/canada

We sure do disagree that Canadian healthcare isn't considered universal.

Also:

The LUP is listed as socialist, not communist. Also Bernie left in 1977.

And though you may not be open here's Bernie describing his opinion on the topic from his new book, a primer on civic engagement:

>...democracy is not a spectator sport. We can no longer sit back and allow ourselves to have one of the lowest voter turnouts of an major country on earth. We can no longer allow the wealthy and their campaign contributions to determine the future of our government. We must move boldly forward to revitalize American democracy...

>Today the Central Intelligence Agency describes thirty-one different forms of government around the globe in its World Factbook...

>COMMUNISM - everyone is considered equal, and private ownership of property or wealth is forbidden. Communism's aim is a classless society.

>DEMOCCRACY - power is retained by the people, but exercised by representatives to whom the people have delegated authority. In a democracy, the people choose and review their representatives regularly in cyclical elections...

>OLIGARCHY - decisions are made by a small group of people considered elite based on intelligence, race, or wealth and serve the group's self-interest.

>SOCIALISM - a central government controls the production and distribution of goods to establish an equitable distribution of labor and property...

>TOTALITARIANISM - the state holds all the power in both political and economic matters and also seeks to control people's attitudes, Values, and beliefs...

>     All in all, the key purpose of the Constitution and Bill of Rights is to ensure that the voice of the individual citizen is both heard and counted...

So whether he's a social democrat or a democratic socialist may be open to debate but what I do know is that he's the will of the American people and a personal hero.

u/lukemcr · 1 pointr/books

Yay for Roald Dahl!

His children's books are fantastic, of course, but his autobiography is also extremely interesting. Check out Going Solo for some awesome WWII stories.

u/[deleted] · 3 pointsr/AdviceAnimals

He wrote a great book for young adults about his experiences called "Flying to the Moon"


Got me interested in space travel as a kid, and I have been pretty invested in it ever since. If you have a kid in your life who loves science, I can't recommend it enough, he is a very engaging writer, no matter your age.

u/wtfishappenig · 6 pointsr/todayilearned

not an american, no dare where i'm from, but in biology class we had to give presentations about a drug we could choose. i talked about weed. lsd was from a pretty intelligent friend of mine and it really hooked me up. since then i always wanted to try it. when i finally did in my psychedelics phase it was wonderful (but psychedelics fucked me up some times and it's fucking hard to handle bad trips. shrooms, acid and others can be wonderful but be warned, that stuff is powerful, don't take it lightly, read about it a lot before trying, plan it, make sure set and setting is great and be prepared for a life changing experience.) happy tripping following the white rabbit where ever it leads you :)

christiane f. is a famous real life story of a 13 y/o girl in the 70s. she describes very very raw how she fell into hole of getting h addicted, prostituting herself, loosing her younger sister to heroin and how it fucked her up completely (she still lives and still stuggles but is better, the money from the book - a bestseller - she lost to the drugs though and is poor again). it's a hard read resp. watch as there is a film version with david bowie of it.

this book is often read in school in germany for drug prevention. but i heard pretty often that people got interested and curious in heroin exactly because they read that book in school. there is something about failed drug prevention that most teachers seem to do wrong. sometimes more obvious sometimes less.

u/NapAfternoon · 2 pointsr/Goldlittlefinger

Feels bit weird to be here...

  1. ~1.6 million years ago to see Homo erectus. I really love human evolution and would love to meet the species that was so critical in us becoming who we are today.

  2. 1160 to visit with Eleanor of Aquitaine in England. Read a book on her when I was a kid, I've always wondered what she was really like.

  3. 320 million years ago to see the carboniferous period
u/Owlettt · 2 pointsr/history

Grant Wood spent a lot of time as a painting instructor during the Great Depression in and around his home town. From what I gather from your quick post, she might very well have taken actual painting lessons from him. He was known for giving away paintings to students. You might be interested in this book for a little family history. Cool! Do you still live in the Midwest?

u/ChiliManiac · 1 pointr/books

Basher 52, read it years ago and it was simple, but had a beautiful simplicity about it. Well worth seeing if you can find. I think this will work.

http://www.amazon.com/Basher-Five-Two-Fighter-Captain-OGrady/dp/0440413133

u/reditor_sic · 7 pointsr/atheism

His wife was devoutly religious and incredibly intelligent. She copyedited his work and her input helped Origin of a Species become the book that people remember as opposed to the guy who came out with basically the same theory at the same time. What's his name again?

For those interested, Charles and Emma is a fantastic and hugely accessible read about Darwin's relationship with his wife and how it shaped his work.

EDIT: Replied to OP instead of in this conversation thread.

u/ggaggamba · 8 pointsr/TumblrInAction

>Help Luna rid the world of menstruation haters! Throw tampons at them and don’t let them confiscate yours!

If you're throwing your tampons at them, what reason do they have to confiscate them? You've literally given them away.

>As featured in CBS.com, Time.com, Today.com, TeenVogue.com, Jezebel.com, NYDailyNews.com, Feministing.com, Fast Company Co.exist, among others.

How often do most of these MSM write articles about video games? It is remarkable how much coverage this little game garnered, and all of it very favourable for reasons beyond the realm of gaming, game play, design, etc. The value of this free advertising must've been worth tens of thousands of dollars; it even got them a book deal and a TEDx talk. It's like they all have a hive mind.

“I don’t think a guy would have made ‘Tampon Run'”. There was a game called Tampon Toss released two years before this one; a simple google search figured this out. No coverage at all. Programmer is a bloke.

u/Gameraaaa · 6 pointsr/WayOfTheBern

What you do is buy a copy of Bernie's book - either Our Revolution: A Future to Believe in or his other book Bernie Sanders' Guide to a Political Revolution.

From there I followed the instructions on their Instagram page:

>Send your copy to the office with a note to Bernie and he will sign it. Please include a return envelope with postage paid. Use the media mail postage rate, its cheaper. Send it to Bernie's campaign office called Friends of Bernie Sanders to PO Box 391, Burlington, VT 05402. It takes a while for him to have time to sign, so please be patient, but he would be happy to sign it for you!

I sent my book in a box and included a 10 X 14.5in. self-addressed postage paid bubble envelope so that after Bernie signed it, they could return it to me. Also, it took about 2 and a half months for me to have the book sent back, so it will take a while. But it's worth it for a signed Bernie book if you ask me! <3

u/amazon-converter-bot · 1 pointr/FreeEBOOKS

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u/NutmegLiver · 5 pointsr/gaybros

Pedro and Me

For those interested, this is a graphic novel written by Judd Winick (who is now a full-time comics creator working for DC) about his friendship with Pedro Zamora. Not directly related to Sean, but I thought I would post this since I know both had an impact on the gay community at the time, and it was interesting to see the first-person, personal impact they had on one other cast member.

u/anoraq · 1 pointr/pics

Buy the book they are from: "What the world eats" but D'Alusio/Menzel.. Brilliant.

u/reclaimedmac · 15 pointsr/todayilearned

Book about him: https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Brother-Jonathan-Daniels-Sacrifice/dp/162979094X

Heard the authors talk about the research they did in his hometown. Pretty interesting.

u/DetroitHero · 3 pointsr/China

Late as usual but I really enjoyed Red Scarf Girl by Ji-Li Jiang.

https://www.amazon.com/Red-Scarf-Girl-Cultural-Revolution/dp/0064462080

u/VoodooDarling · 3 pointsr/TwoXChromosomes

[Tomboy: A Memoir] (http://www.amazon.com/Tomboy-Graphic-Memoir-Liz-Prince/dp/1936976552) by Liz Prince is an excellent read. Not sure I can share any specific stories, but definitely was (and often still am) non-gender conforming.

u/redvelvetdreams · 4 pointsr/todayilearned

It's definitely true, there has since been a book published, which Gaby Rodriguez wrote herself. They also adapted her story into a Lifetime movie.

u/Duggler657 · 1 pointr/stunfisk

Dude, Mo Willems is great. Kinda obscure, but check out the cartoon a day journal he did sometime.

u/Steinrikur · 1 pointr/booksuggestions

Pedro and Me taught me that Homophobia is dumb, so I guess you could say it made me a better person.
It's also a great story, even if it's "just a comic book".

u/SkyeCrowe · 4 pointsr/books

I really like Go Ask Alice.

It really provides a lot of insight for people who have been crippled by uncontrollable drug use. Probably not the best ever non-fiction, but my personal favorite.

u/clearlyoutofhismind · 1 pointr/hoggit

https://www.amazon.com/Basher-Five-Two-Fighter-Captain-OGrady/dp/0440413133

"U.S. Air Force Captain Scott O'Grady was shot down in his F-16 over Bosnia while helping to keep the peace. The plane exploded, and Captain O'Grady fell 5 miles to the ground below. In exciting detail, Captain O'Grady tells how he evaded capture and how, with little water and no food, he was able to survive on his own in enemy territory."

u/eldergias · 11 pointsr/SandersForPresident

I wasn't aware that you could use tax dollars to buy books on Amazon. Could you please tell me how you go about doing that? Or do you have no idea what you are talking about?

u/AuthorOfTheFuture · 3 pointsr/SandersForPresident

In his new book Bernie defines Socialism as

"A central government controls the production and distribution of goods to establish an equitable distribution of labor and property."

u/zpedv · -1 pointsr/politics

The book tour he is on now isn't about the book he put out last year after the election. He just put out another book last week, the one I'm talking about, and the book tour for that starts this month / has already started.

> getting people, young people especially, involved in the political revolution

u/g87g8g98 · 1 pointr/politics

> Besides, no one's talking about revolutionary changes.

Oh yeah?

https://www.amazon.com/Bernie-Sanders-Guide-Political-Revolution/dp/1250138906

u/chondroguptomourjo · 1 pointr/india

rabindronath porechen ?

google koriya eiti pailam, BTW subho nabo barsho.

u/notlegendnotproud · 4 pointsr/suggestmeabook

Zoo Station: The Story of Christian F

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https://www.amazon.com/Zoo-Station-Story-Christiane-Stories/dp/1936976226

u/gocougs11 · 1 pointr/AskReddit

This isn't really a bad experience with a celebrity, but a bad reaction from a haggard old bitch of a teacher when I told her about it.

When I was in the 4th grade, I met Ollie North and Scott O'grady (Basher 5-2, fighter pilot who was shot down in Bosnia) on a cruise in the Caribbean.

I had recently read Captain O'Grady's book, and happened to have it on the Cruise with me. I got them both to autograph it.

When I told the teacher of my 4th grade class about it back at school the next week, she said "That's nothing you should be proud of." Because she didn't agree with Ollie North's politics.

Seriously, who the fuck says that to a fourth grader?