American Biography For Teens

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    • American Suffragists and the Battle for the Ballot
    • By: Winifred Conkling
    • Narrated by: Christina Moore
    • Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 02-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • On August 18, 1920, American women finally won the right to vote. Ratification of the 19th Amendment was the culmination of an almost 80-year fight in which some of the fiercest, most passionate women in history marched, protested, and sometimes broke the law in to achieve this huge leap....

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    • Two American Teenagers and Mexico's Most Dangerous Drug Cartel
    • By: Dan Slater
    • Narrated by: Pete Simonelli
    • Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 09-13-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 870 ratings
    • The story of two American teens recruited as killers for a Mexican cartel and their pursuit by a Mexican American detective who realizes the War on Drugs is unwinnable....

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    • By: Walter Dean Myers
    • Narrated by: Joe Morton
    • Length: 4 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 09-02-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 97 ratings
    • Into a memoir that is gripping, funny, heartbreaking, and unforgettable, Walter Dean Myers richly weaves the details of his Harlem childhood in the 1940s and 1950s....

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    • From War Orphan to Star Ballerina
    • By: Elaine DePrince, Michaela DePrince
    • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 10-13-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 155 ratings
    • Michaela DePrince was known as girl no. 27 at the orphanage where she was abandoned at a young age....

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    • Memoirs of an American Soldier
    • By: Howard E. Wasdin, Stephen Templin
    • Narrated by: Corey M. Snow
    • Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 03-29-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 56 ratings
    • When the Navy sends their elite, they send the SEALs. When the SEALs send their elite, they send SEAL Team Six—a secret unit made up of the finest soldiers in the country, if not the world. This is Howard Wasdin's story of beating the odds to become an elite American warrior....

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    • An American Journey
    • By: Kamala Harris
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles
    • Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 89 ratings
    • Now adapted for young listeners, Vice President Kamala Harris' empowering memoir about the values and inspirations that guided her life....

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    • The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of an All-American Teen
    • By: Kate Fagan
    • Narrated by: Kate Fagan
    • Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 901 ratings
    • From noted ESPN commentator and journalist Kate Fagan, the heartbreaking and vital story of college athlete Madison Holleran, whose death by suicide rocked the University of Pennsylvania....

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    • Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn't Tell You About the Civil War
    • By: Steve Sheinkin
    • Narrated by: Vikas Adam, Steve Sheinkin
    • Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 08-10-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • New York Times best-selling author and Newbery Honor-recipient Steve Sheinkin gives young listeners the causes and curses that divided America into Union and Confederate nations....

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    • By: Francisco Jiménez
    • Narrated by: Adrian Vargas
    • Length: 4 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 11-13-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 161 ratings
    • Without bitterness or sentimentality, Francisco Jiménez finishes telling the story of his youth....

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    • By: Francisco Jiménez
    • Narrated by: Adrian Vargas
    • Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 11-11-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 69 ratings
    • From the perspective of the young adult he was then, Francisco Jiménez describes the challenges he faced in his efforts to continue his education.....

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    • Skin to the Core
    • By: Eric Gansworth
    • Narrated by: Eric Gansworth
    • Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 10-06-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • The term Apple is a slur in Native communities across the country. It's for someone supposedly red on the outside, white on the inside. Eric Gansworth tells his story in Apple (Skin to the Core). The story of his family, of Onondaga among Tuscaroras, of Native folks everywhere....

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    • By: Wes Moore
    • Narrated by: Wes Moore
    • Length: 4 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 06-11-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • Through the telling of events from his own life, Wes Moore (author of the best-selling adult title The Other Wes Moore) explores the issues that separate success and failure....

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    • By Any Means Necessary
    • By: Walter Dean Myers
    • Narrated by: Corey Allen
    • Length: 4 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 09-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • As a 14-year-old, he was Malcolm Little, the president of his class and a top student. . At 19, he was back in Boston, leading a gang of burglars. At 20, he was in prison. It was in prison that Malcolm Little started the journey that would lead him to adopt the name Malcolm X....

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    • The Life of the Legendary Artist and Activist
    • By: Martin Duberman
    • Narrated by: Cary Hite
    • Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 04-27-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • This is the inspiring life and legacy of vocal artist and civil rights icon Paul Robeson - one of the most important public figures in the 20th century - adapted for young adults by the acclaimed Robeson biographer....

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    • Geronimo: Wolf on the Warpath
    • By: Ralph Moody
    • Narrated by: Jay Snyder
    • Length: 4 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 04-20-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 59 ratings
    • The name still sends shivers down the spine and has the power to draw in young readers: Geronimo, the legendary Indian who inspired and fought for his people....

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    • By: Francisco Jiménez
    • Narrated by: Robert Ramirez
    • Length: 5 hrs
    • Release date: 02-11-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • As he prepares to recite the Declaration of Independence before his eighth grade social studies class in California, the thing Francisco has feared for 10 years finally happens....

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    • Raising My Fist for Justice
    • By: Tommie Smith, Derrick Barnes
    • Narrated by: Korey Jackson
    • Length: 2 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 01-23-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • On October 16, 1968, during the medal ceremony at the Mexico City Olympics, Tommie Smith, the gold medal winner in the 200-meter sprint, and John Carlos, the bronze medal winner, stood on the podium in black socks and raised their black-gloved fists to protest racial injustice....

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