Memoirs and Autobiographies of American Childhood Before World War II

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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 4.30 avg rating — 499,223 ratings
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One Writer's Beginnings
One Writer's Beginnings 4.07 avg rating — 4,047 ratings
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Memories of a Catholic Girlhood
Memories of a Catholic Girlhood 3.72 avg rating — 1,980 ratings
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A Son of the Middle Border
A Son of the Middle Border 4.01 avg rating — 226 ratings
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An Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood
An Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood 4.02 avg rating — 3,712 ratings
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Waiting for the Morning Train
Waiting for the Morning Train 3.85 avg rating — 199 ratings
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Cripple Creek Days
Cripple Creek Days 3.88 avg rating — 134 ratings
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The Brass Ring
The Brass Ring 4.09 avg rating — 121 ratings
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To Begin Again: Stories and Memoirs, 1908-1929
To Begin Again: Stories and Memoirs, 1908-1929 3.83 avg rating — 112 ratings
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A Nickel's Worth of Skim Milk: A Boy's View of the Great Depression
A Nickel's Worth of Skim Milk: A Boy's View of the Great Depression 4.10 avg rating — 101 ratings
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Homesteading
Homesteading 3.77 avg rating — 62 ratings
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Sandhill Sundays and Other Recollections
Sandhill Sundays and Other Recollections 4.19 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Innocence Under the Elms
Innocence Under the Elms 4.34 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Life Was Simpler Then
Life Was Simpler Then 3.88 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Patchwork Child: Early Memories
Patchwork Child: Early Memories 3.91 avg rating — 23 ratings
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A Penny's Worth of Minced Ham: Another Look at the Great Depression
A Penny's Worth of Minced Ham: Another Look at the Great Depression really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 23 ratings
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One Boy's Boston, 1887-1901
One Boy's Boston, 1887-1901 3.86 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography
Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography 4.07 avg rating — 8,478 ratings
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Drug Store Days: My youth among the pills & potions
Drug Store Days: My youth among the pills & potions 3.95 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Social Life in Old New Orleans
Social Life in Old New Orleans 3.60 avg rating — 15 ratings
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When God Was an Atheist Sailor: Memories of a Childhood at Sea 1902-1910
When God Was an Atheist Sailor: Memories of a Childhood at Sea 1902-1910 4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Buckelew, The Indian Captive, or the Life Story of F. M. Bucklew While a Captive Among the Lipan Indians in the Western Wilds of Frontier Texas
Buckelew, The Indian Captive, or the Life Story of F. M. Bucklew While a Captive Among the Lipan Indians in the Western Wilds of Frontier Texas 4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings
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How I Became a Cornetist: The Autobiography of a Cornet-Playing Pilgrim's Progress
How I Became a Cornetist: The Autobiography of a Cornet-Playing Pilgrim's Progress 4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Fetched-Up Yankee: A New England Boyhood Remembered
Fetched-Up Yankee: A New England Boyhood Remembered 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Dorothy's World: Childhood in Sabine Bottom, 1902-1910
Dorothy's World: Childhood in Sabine Bottom, 1902-1910 3.22 avg rating — 9 ratings
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When I Was Your Age
When I Was Your Age 4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Recollections of Life in Ohio: From 1813-1840
Recollections of Life in Ohio: From 1813-1840 3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Daughter of the Gold Rush Klondy Nelson with Corey Ford
Daughter of the Gold Rush Klondy Nelson with Corey Ford 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings
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My Year in a Log Cabin (1893)
My Year in a Log Cabin (1893) 4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Hawaiian Yesterdays: Chapters From a Boy's Life in the Islands in the Early Days
Hawaiian Yesterdays: Chapters From a Boy's Life in the Islands in the Early Days 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Bob Artley's Seasons on the Farm: From the Newspaper Series "Memories of a Former Kid"
Bob Artley's Seasons on the Farm: From the Newspaper Series "Memories of a Former Kid" 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Recollections of My Boyhood
Recollections of My Boyhood 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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A Book of Chores
A Book of Chores 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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My Friends at Brook Farm
My Friends at Brook Farm 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Daughter of the Regiment: Memoirs of a Childhood in the Frontier Army, 1878-1898
Daughter of the Regiment: Memoirs of a Childhood in the Frontier Army, 1878-1898 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Illinois in the Fifties: Or a Decade of Development, 1851-1860
Illinois in the Fifties: Or a Decade of Development, 1851-1860 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Yankee Summer: The Way We Were: Growing Up in Rural Vermont in the 1930s
Yankee Summer: The Way We Were: Growing Up in Rural Vermont in the 1930s 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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A Country School
A Country School 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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My Recollections of Ohio
My Recollections of Ohio really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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A Narrative of the Captivity and Sufferings of Isaac Knight from Indian Barbarity: Giving an Account of the Cruel Treatment He Received from the Savages While Afflicted with the Small Pox ...
A Narrative of the Captivity and Sufferings of Isaac Knight from Indian Barbarity: Giving an Account of the Cruel Treatment He Received from the Savages While Afflicted with the Small Pox ... liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Elisha Brooks (Classic Reprint): The Life-Story of a California Pioneer
Elisha Brooks (Classic Reprint): The Life-Story of a California Pioneer 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Pioneering in Dakota
Pioneering in Dakota really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Story of a Kansas Pioneer
The Story of a Kansas Pioneer really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Story of My Childhood Written for My Children
Story of My Childhood Written for My Children really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Old Virginia days and ways; reminiscences of Mrs. Sally McCarty Pleasants
Old Virginia days and ways; reminiscences of Mrs. Sally McCarty Pleasants really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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A Boy's Life In The West
A Boy's Life In The West liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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In the New Country, Early Days Along the Solomon Valley
In the New Country, Early Days Along the Solomon Valley liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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An Old Boy Remembers
An Old Boy Remembers liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating