false <![CDATA[I Know Why Caged Bird Sings]]> 13214 45 In this first of five volumes of autobiography, poet Maya Angelou recounts a youth filled with disappointment, frustration, tragedy, and finally hard-won independence. Sent at a young age to live with her grandmother in Arkansas, Angelou learned a great deal from this exceptional woman and the tightly knit black community there. These very lessons carried her throughout the hardships she endured later in life, including a tragic occurrence while visiting her mother in St. Louis and her formative years spent in California--where an unwanted pregnancy changed her life forever. Marvelously told, with Angelou's "gift for language and observation," this "remarkable autobiography by an equally remarkable black woman from Arkansas captures, indelibly, a world of which most Americans are shamefully ignorant." 1413589 1970 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings total:16876|5:5566|4:6557|3:3603|2:852|1:298| 16876 66869 21278 945 5 5 false false Sat Mar 29 15:13:07 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 26 17:19:27 -0700 2008
This book has been placed on banned book lists by needlessly close-minded people for it's real life content.

The book tastefully addresses issues of molestation, rape, r...more...]]> 4 3 false false Sat Oct 06 21:19:37 -0700 2007 Sat Oct 06 21:19:37 -0700 2007 more...]]> 1 3 false false Sat Jan 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 10 13:08:11 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 11 19:52:33 -0800 2009 1
1. The author is friends with Oprah and the Clintons.
2. The book is considered a classic.

The book is mostly set in the tiny town of Stamps, Arkansas. I lived much of my childhood within a...more...]]> 4 2 true true Fri Jun 27 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed May 21 13:02:20 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 03 21:54:30 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 2 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Oct 14 19:28:01 -0700 2007 Sun Oct 14 20:01:46 -0700 2007 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings I felt I knew the real Maya. Angelou doesn't try to cover up any of her mistakes or bad experiences and allows the reader to see her faults. There is no screen between the reader and the author.
Starting with Angelou as a young girl...more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Jan 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Mar 14 17:44:08 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 14 17:47:39 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Jan 15 17:31:46 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 15 17:32:25 -0800 2009 Rating: 9/10
I really enjoyed this book. It is the autobiography of the poet as a young girl-- spanning from age three to the birht of her fistr child in her late teens. It is so rare to find a book about a famous person's childhood (unless o...more...]]> 5 0 true false Thu Aug 09 00:00:00 -0700 2001 Mon Aug 10 00:12:36 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 10 01:36:44 -0700 2009 3 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Aug 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 10 14:20:27 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 11 18:55:17 -0700 2009
“When I was three...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 15 01:08:14 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 15 01:25:45 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Mar 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jun 11 16:45:18 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 11 17:02:36 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun May 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu May 21 08:05:09 -0700 2009 Mon May 25 08:06:52 -0700 2009
There were just so many moments that made me laugh, cheer and cry. Maya Angelou is simply a wonderful...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Apr 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 30 16:48:46 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 30 16:50:30 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed May 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu May 07 14:28:33 -0700 2009 Wed May 20 08:34:50 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jan 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Dec 30 23:37:27 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 07 17:15:21 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 1 false false Sat Dec 06 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 20 21:58:00 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 06 15:53:21 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Feb 17 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 16 23:24:46 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 16 23:31:21 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Oct 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Nov 15 07:38:48 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 16 04:53:55 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed May 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 25 13:55:07 -0700 2009 Wed May 13 19:59:46 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Apr 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 10 16:20:31 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 18 12:35:40 -0700 2009 I Know Why the Caged B...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6147126