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In the Great Green Room: The Brilliant and Bold Life of Margaret Wise Brown
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3.62 avg rating — 2,410 ratings
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Sometimes You Have to Lie: The Life and Times of Louise Fitzhugh, Renegade Author of Harriet the Spy
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3.85 avg rating — 965 ratings
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Tove Jansson: Life, Art, Words
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4.17 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography
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4.07 avg rating — 8,625 ratings
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Judy Blume: A Life
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3.76 avg rating — 76 ratings
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From Sarah to Sydney: The Woman Behind All-of-a-Kind Family
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3.59 avg rating — 127 ratings
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A Pen to Change the World: The Life of J.K. Rowling
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Scribbles, Sorrows, and Russet Leather Boots: The Life of Louisa May Alcott
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3.87 avg rating — 132 ratings
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House of Dreams: The Life of L.M. Montgomery
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4.07 avg rating — 2,987 ratings
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Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom
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4.39 avg rating — 664 ratings
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Homesick: My Own Story
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3.87 avg rating — 2,968 ratings
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A Girl from Yamhill
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4.03 avg rating — 4,525 ratings
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Laura: The Life of Laura Ingalls Wilder
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4.12 avg rating — 6,004 ratings
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Little by Little: A Writer's Education
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4.02 avg rating — 251 ratings
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Where Shall We Run To?: A Memoir
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4.12 avg rating — 317 ratings
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Carson McCullers: A Life
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4.06 avg rating — 282 ratings
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Looking for Betty MacDonald: The Egg, the Plague, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, and I
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4.01 avg rating — 300 ratings
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Kay Thompson: From Funny Face to Eloise
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3.88 avg rating — 193 ratings
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Lois Lenski: Storycatcher
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4.08 avg rating — 37 ratings
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There's a Mystery There: The Primal Vision of Maurice Sendak
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3.81 avg rating — 216 ratings
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Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey
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3.76 avg rating — 1,370 ratings
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Memoirs
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3.93 avg rating — 1,201 ratings
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Astrid Lindgren: The Woman Behind Pippi Longstocking
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4.24 avg rating — 1,965 ratings
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The Life and Loves of Edith Nesbit: Victorian Iconoclast, Children's Author, and Creator of The Railway Children
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3.66 avg rating — 131 ratings
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Crockett Johnson and Ruth Krauss: How an Unlikely Couple Found Love, Dodged the FBI, and Transformed Children's Literature
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3.78 avg rating — 88 ratings
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Mary Poppins, She Wrote: The Life of P.L. Travers
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3.11 avg rating — 1,746 ratings
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Some Writer!: The Story of E. B. White
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4.16 avg rating — 5,843 ratings
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Looking Back: A Book of Memories
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4.21 avg rating — 985 ratings
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Stories of My Life
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4.07 avg rating — 360 ratings
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Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature
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4.07 avg rating — 2,256 ratings
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I Am Scout: The Biography of Harper Lee
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3.75 avg rating — 1,108 ratings
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A Writer's Story: From Life to Fiction
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3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee
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3.95 avg rating — 5,526 ratings
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Looking for Anne of Green Gables: The Story of L.M. Montgomery and Her Literary Classic
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3.61 avg rating — 885 ratings
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Boy: Tales of Childhood (Roald Dahl's Autobiography, #1)
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4.07 avg rating — 74,156 ratings
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Brown Girl Dreaming
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4.15 avg rating — 93,561 ratings
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The Busy, Busy World of Richard Scarry
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4.33 avg rating — 55 ratings
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Hotel Bemelmans
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3.80 avg rating — 512 ratings
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Bad Boy: A Memoir
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3.73 avg rating — 3,417 ratings
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Gone to the Woods: Surviving a Lost Childhood
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5,366 ratings
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Margaret Mahy: A Writer's Life: A Literary Portrait of New Zealand's Best-Loved Children's Author
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 41 ratings
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The Man in the Willows: The Life of Kenneth Grahame
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3.28 avg rating — 50 ratings
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Becoming Madeleine: A Biography of the Author of A Wrinkle in Time by Her Granddaughters
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3.92 avg rating — 677 ratings
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Eleanor Cameron: Dimensions of Amazement
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4.07 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Me Me Me Me Me: Not a Novel
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3.90 avg rating — 96 ratings
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Little Author in the Big Woods: A Biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder
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3.96 avg rating — 478 ratings
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Down a Sunny Dirt Road: An Autobiography
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4.17 avg rating — 196 ratings
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The Journey That Saved Curious George : The True Wartime Escape of Margret and H.A. Rey
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4.18 avg rating — 1,857 ratings
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But I'll Be Back Again
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4.15 avg rating — 84 ratings
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My Own Two Feet: A Memoir
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4.23 avg rating — 1,993 ratings
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Reflections: On the Magic of Writing
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4.32 avg rating — 961 ratings
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Jacky Daydream
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3.67 avg rating — 3,286 ratings
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Listening for Madeleine: A Portrait of Madeleine L'Engle in Many Voices
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3.65 avg rating — 246 ratings
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The Mystery of Lewis Carroll: Discovering the Whimsical, Thoughtful, and Sometimes Lonely Man Who Created "Alice in Wonderland"
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3.62 avg rating — 472 ratings
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Neverland: J.M. Barrie, the Du Mauriers, and the Dark Side of Peter Pan
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3.04 avg rating — 488 ratings
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Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio
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4.44 avg rating — 8,305 ratings
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Virginia Lee Burton: A Life in Art
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4.29 avg rating — 89 ratings
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Flora and Tiger: 19 Very Short Stories from My Life
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3.75 avg rating — 80 ratings
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Warm Springs: Traces of a Childhood at FDR's Polio Haven
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3.52 avg rating — 334 ratings
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The Abracadabra Kid: A Writer's Life
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3.74 avg rating — 145 ratings
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It Came from Ohio: My Life as a Writer
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4.10 avg rating — 751 ratings
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The Story of My Life
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4.39 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Cross Creek
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4.06 avg rating — 2,708 ratings
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Bill Peet: An Autobiography
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4.27 avg rating — 1,798 ratings
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26 Fairmount Avenue (26 Fairmount Avenue, #1)
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3.93 avg rating — 3,510 ratings
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Knots in My Yo-Yo String: The Autobiography of a Kid
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3.64 avg rating — 2,256 ratings
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Knucklehead: Tall Tales and Almost True Stories of Growing up Scieszka
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4.08 avg rating — 5,000 ratings
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The One I Knew the Best of All
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3.92 avg rating — 50 ratings
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The Seuss, the Whole Seuss and Nothing But the Seuss: A Visual Biography of Theodor Seuss Geisel
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4.12 avg rating — 290 ratings
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The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
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3.94 avg rating — 68,379 ratings
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Dear Mem Fox, I Have Read All Your Books Even the Pathetic Ones: And Other Incidents in the Life of a Children's Book Author
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3.80 avg rating — 103 ratings
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Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Unexpected Life of the Author of The Secret Garden
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3.89 avg rating — 54 ratings
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The Invisible Thread: An Autobiography
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3.87 avg rating — 512 ratings
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The Lost Garden
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3.61 avg rating — 79 ratings
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The Real Wizard of Oz: The Life and Times of L. Frank Baum
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3.66 avg rating — 527 ratings
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On the Way Home
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4.07 avg rating — 10,519 ratings
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Saint-Exupéry: A Biography
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4.07 avg rating — 399 ratings
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A Boy Named Shel: The Life and Times of Shel Silverstein
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3.43 avg rating — 571 ratings
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Margaret Wise Brown: Awakened by the Moon
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4.01 avg rating — 262 ratings
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Storyteller: The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson
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4.15 avg rating — 65 ratings
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The Fairy Tale of My Life: An Autobiography
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3.53 avg rating — 136 ratings
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The Tale of Beatrix Potter: A Biography
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3.92 avg rating — 603 ratings
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Borrowed Finery: A Memoir
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3.71 avg rating — 1,113 ratings
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Just Sayin': My Life in Words
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4.51 avg rating — 1,013 ratings
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In My Own Time: Almost an Autobiography
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Not for Your Hands: An Autobiography
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3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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A Corridor of Mirrors: An Autobiography
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3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Enid Blyton
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3.74 avg rating — 467 ratings
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Becoming Ezra Jack Keats (Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography)
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4.35 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Self-Portrait: Trina Schart Hyman
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4.33 avg rating — 139 ratings
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It's Too Late Now: The Autobiography of a Writer
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3.79 avg rating — 127 ratings
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Tove Jansson: Work and Love
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4.19 avg rating — 2,643 ratings
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Uncle Boris in the Yukon: and Other Shaggy Dog Stories
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3.89 avg rating — 253 ratings
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Sing a Song of Tuna Fish: Hard-to-Swallow Stories from Fifth Grade
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3.69 avg rating — 277 ratings
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Untwisted: The Story of My Life
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4.15 avg rating — 417 ratings
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On Writing for Children & Other People
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4.20 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Private Demons: The Life of Shirley Jackson
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 563 ratings
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The Worlds of Tomie dePaola: The Art and Stories of the Legendary Artist and Author
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4.27 avg rating — 129 ratings
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A House of My Own: Stories from My Life
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4.30 avg rating — 1,909 ratings
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Highsmith: A Romance of the 1950's
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3.80 avg rating — 372 ratings
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