High School A Memoir

Author : Sara Quin
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982112670
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book High School written by Sara Quin and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES AND NATIONAL BESTSELLER First loves, first songs, and the drugs and reckless high school exploits that fueled them—meet music icons Tegan and Sara as you’ve never known them before in this intimate and raw account of their formative years. High School is the revelatory and unique coming-of-age story of Sara and Tegan Quin, identical twins from Calgary, Alberta, growing up in the height of grunge and rave culture in the ’90s, well before they became the celebrated musicians and global LGBTQ icons we know today. While grappling with their identity and sexuality, often alone, they also faced academic meltdown, their parents’ divorce, and the looming pressure of what might come after high school. Written in alternating chapters from both Tegan’s point of view and Sara’s, the book is a raw account of the drugs, alcohol, love, music, and friendships they explored in their formative years. A transcendent story of first loves and first songs, it captures the tangle of discordant and parallel memories of two sisters who grew up in distinct ways even as they lived just down the hall from one another. This is the origin story of Tegan and Sara.

Author : Tegan Quin
Publisher : Virago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780349011981
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book High School: a Memoir written by Tegan Quin and published by Virago Press. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From iconic musicians Tegan and Sara comes a nostalgic memoir about high school, detailing their first loves and first songs in a compelling look back at their origin story. 'Genius' Augusten Burroughs, author of Running with Scissors 'A gift' Elliot Page, actor 'Utterly charming' Carmen Maria Machado, author of Her Body and Other Parties Before they became international musicians and LGBTQ+ icons, twin sisters Sara and Tegan Quin came of age in 90s Canada. They argued relentlessly, skipped school, dropped acid and fell in and out of love - sometimes with their best friends. One day they found their stepdad's guitar and their lives changed course forever. High School is a revelatory joint memoir. It captures two sisters wrestling with their sexual and artistic identities and those breathtaking years when the future seems wondrously possible.

Author : Nikki Grimes
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 1635925622
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ordinary Hazards written by Nikki Grimes and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael L. Printz Honor Book Robert F. Sibert Informational Honor Book Boston Globe/Horn Book Nonfiction Honor Book Arnold Adoff Poetry Award for Teens Six Starred Reviews—★Booklist ★BCCB ★The Horn Book ★Publishers Weekly ★School Library Connection ★Shelf Awareness A Booklist Best Book for Youth * A BCCB Blue Ribbon * A Horn Book Fanfare Book * A Shelf Awareness Best Children's Book * Recommended on NPR's "Morning Edition" by Kwame Alexander "This powerful story, told with the music of poetry and the blade of truth, will help your heart grow."–Laurie Halse Anderson, author of Speak and Shout "[A] testimony and a triumph."–Jason Reynolds, author of Long Way Down In her own voice, acclaimed author and poet Nikki Grimes explores the truth of a harrowing childhood in a compelling and moving memoir in verse. Growing up with a mother suffering from paranoid schizophrenia and a mostly absent father, Nikki Grimes found herself terrorized by babysitters, shunted from foster family to foster family, and preyed upon by those she trusted. At the age of six, she poured her pain onto a piece of paper late one night - and discovered the magic and impact of writing. For many years, Nikki's notebooks were her most enduing companions. In this accessible and inspiring memoir that will resonate with young readers and adults alike, Nikki shows how the power of those words helped her conquer the hazards - ordinary and extraordinary - of her life.

Author : Kendra James
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1538753499
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Admissions written by Kendra James and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NAMED A BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF 2022 BY ESQUIRE “[C]harming and surprising. . . The work of Admissions is laying down, with wit and care, the burden James assumed at 15, that she — or any Black student, or all Black students — would manage the failures of a racially illiterate community. . . The best depiction of elite whiteness I’ve read.”—New York Times A Most Anticipated Book by Vogue.com · Parade · Town & Country · Nylon ·New York Post · Lit Hub · BookRiot · Electric Literature · Glamour · Marie Claire · Publishers Weekly · Bustle · Fodor's Travel· Business Insider · Pop Sugar · InsideHook · SheReads Early on in Kendra James’ professional life, she began to feel like she was selling a lie. As an admissions officer specializing in diversity recruitment for independent prep schools, she persuaded students and families to embark on the same perilous journey she herself had made—to attend cutthroat and largely white schools similar to The Taft School, where she had been the first African-American legacy student only a few years earlier. Her new job forced her to reflect on her own elite education experience, and to realize how disillusioned she had become with America’s inequitable system. In ADMISSIONS, Kendra looks back at the three years she spent at Taft, chronicling clashes with her lily-white roommate, how she had to unlearn the respectability politics she'd been raised with, and the fall-out from a horrifying article in the student newspaper that accused Black and Latinx students of being responsible for segregation of campus. Through these stories, some troubling, others hilarious, she deconstructs the lies and half-truths she herself would later tell as an admissions professional, in addition to the myths about boarding schools perpetuated by popular culture. With its combination of incisive social critique and uproarious depictions of elite nonsense, ADMISSIONS will resonate with anyone who has ever been The Only One in a room, dealt with racial microaggressions, or even just suffered from an extreme case of homesickness.

Author : Devon Ashby
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book PG Vs MoCo written by Devon Ashby and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-10-14 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From Joe Haden to Shawne Merriman to NaVorro Bowman, many of football's most dynamic talents have come from the public schools of the D.C.-Metropolitan Area (DMV), but no one's sat down and told their collective story-until now. After interviews with some local journalists and dozens of coaches and former/current players, Maryland native and Morgan State graduate Devon Ashby tells the stories of many of the area's top players and the schools, coaches and communities that made them. This is the story of public school football in two of Maryland's most visible counties, Montgomery County and Prince George's County-a collection of stories that begs the question of whether Maryland's presence as a football state should be acknowledged as much of not more than their basketball presence.

Author : Maia Kobabe
Publisher : Oni Press
ISBN 13 : 9781637150726
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender Queer: A Memoir Deluxe Edition written by Maia Kobabe and published by Oni Press. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2020 ALA Alex Award Winner 2020 Stonewall — Israel Fishman Non-fiction Award Honor Book In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now, Gender Queer is here. Maia’s intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of adolescent crushes, grappling with how to come out to family and society, bonding with friends over erotic gay fanfiction, and facing the trauma and fundamental violation of pap smears. Started as a way to explain to eir family what it means to be nonbinary and asexual, Gender Queer is more than a personal story: it is a useful and touching guide on gender identity—what it means and how to think about it—for advocates, friends, and humans everywhere. This special deluxe hardcover edition of Gender Queer features a brand-new cover, exclusive art and sketches, and a TK from creator Maia Kobabe.

Author : Pengcheng Xiong
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781514121504
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Memoir of a High School Senior written by Pengcheng Xiong and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-05-29 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life experiences of a high school senior and what he goes through. This book tells about the feelings and memories created during a person's lifetime.

Author : Sara Quin
Publisher : MCD
ISBN 13 : 9780374169947
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book High School written by Sara Quin and published by MCD. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the iconic musicians Tegan and Sara comes a memoir about high school, detailing their first loves and first songs in a compelling look back at their humble beginnings High School is the revelatory and unique coming-of-age story of Sara and Tegan Quin, identical twins from Calgary, Alberta, who grew up at the height of grunge and rave culture in the nineties, well before they became the celebrated musicians and global LGBTQ icons we know today. While grappling with their identity and sexuality, often alone, they also faced academic meltdown, their parents’ divorce, and the looming pressure of what might come after high school. Written in alternating chapters from both Tegan's and Sara’s points of view, the book is a raw account of the drugs, alcohol, love, music, and friendship they explored in their formative years. A transcendent story of first loves and first songs, High School captures the tangle of discordant and parallel memories of two sisters who grew up in distinct ways even as they lived just down the hall from each another. This is the origin story of Tegan and Sara.

Author : C. West
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780983666349
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book High School Graduation Memoir written by C. West and published by . This book was released on 2011-06-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This memoir is designed to document acomplishments that led to graduation of High School.

Author : Elizabeth Collins
Publisher : Hbh Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9780985093402
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Too Cool for School written by Elizabeth Collins and published by Hbh Press, LLC. This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabeth Collins was a respected English teacher at a private high school. She loved her students and worked herself to the bone. Then, because Collins did not use her husband's last name, she was attacked for being a "too liberal influence". Collins became the unwitting victim of extreme conservatives who assailed her character, threatened her livelihood, and worse.