5 Best biography books like Someone Like Me: How One Undocumented Girl Fought for Her American Dream by Julissa Arce

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Someone Like Me: How One Undocumented Girl Fought for Her American Dream

By: Julissa Arce

4.11

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Born in the picturesque town of Taxco, Mexico, Julissa Arce was left behind for months at a time wi…

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1. Hurricane Song

By: Paul Volponi

3.75

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Hurricane Katrina is raging and you are inside the Superdome! Miles has only lived in New Orleans w… read more

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  • middle grade
  • audiobook
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2. Tevye the Milkman

By: Sholom Aleichem

3.61

Format: 160 pages, Audio CD

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  • audiobook
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3. Honestly Ben (Openly Straight, #2)

By: Bill Konigsberg

3.94

Format: 456 pages, Hardcover

Ben Carver is back to normal. He's getting all As in his classes at the Natick School. He was just … read more

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  • audiobook

4. When Morning Comes

By: None

3.29

Format: None pages, Paperback

Zanele is skipping school and secretly plotting against the apartheid government. The police can't … read more

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5. Not Without Laughter

By: Langston Hughes , Maya Angelou

4.19

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

Although best known as a poet and pioneer of the Harlem Renaissance movement, Langston Hughes prove… read more

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6. The White Rose

By: Dorothee Sölle , Inge Aicher-Scholl

4.10

Format: None pages, Paperback

The White Rose tells the story of Hans Scholl and Sophie Scholl, who in 1942 led a small undergroun… read more

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7. This Book Betrays My Brother

By: Kagiso Lesego Molope

4.08

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

"Basi is as special as raindrops on dying crops. I say this not with jealousy but with apology, rea… read more

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8. The Pretenders (The Cemetery Girl Trilogy, #1)

By: Charlaine Harris , Christopher Golden , Don Kramer , None , None

4.24

Format: 185 pages, Hardcover

Charlaine Harris, the #1New York Times bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse novels and the H… read more

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9. Mississippi Trial, 1955

By: Chris Crowe

3.00

Format: 9 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2003 International Reading Association Award for Young Adult Novel At first Hiram is … read more

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10. 28 Days

By: David Safier

4.29

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In Warsaw, Poland, in 1942, Mira faces impossible decisions after learning that the Warsaw ghetto i… read more

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  • audiobook
"Es war ein wunderschöner Morgen. Es war ein schrecklicher Morgen."

-David Safier, 28 Days

"Welcher Tod war schon sinnvoll? Welches Leben? Meins? Nein. Keins."

-David Safier, 28 Days

"Ich aber lag wach, war ich doch von ihrer kleinen Fabel zutiefst erschrocken: Meine kleine Schwester wollte lieber sterben, als im Ghetto zu leben."

-David Safier, 28 Days

"Wir Juden standen den Deutschen in Weg. Und was lag dahinter? Keine Ahnung. Die Weltherrschaft? Eine arische Gesellschaft? Die Glückseligkeit? Oder einfach nur ein virusfreies Leben? Wir waren Bazill…"

-David Safier, 28 Days

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11. The Snow Fell Three Graves Deep

By: Allan Wolf

4.18

Format: 399 pages, Hardcover

In powerful, vivid verse, the master behind The Watch That Ends the Night recounts one of history's… read more

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  • audiobook
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12. You Can't Say That!: Writers for Young People Talk About Censorship, Free Expression, and the Stories They Have to Tell

By: Leonard S. Marcus

4.10

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

What happens when freedom of expression comes under threat? In frank and wide-ranging interviews, h… read more

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  • middle grade
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Intellectually I know free speech will prevail--it almost always does--and I know that some good conversations come out of it. But it's still harrowing to have to face such intolerance on your home g…"

-Leonard S. Marcus, You Can't Say That!: Writers for Young People Talk About Censorship, Free Expression, and the Stories They Have to Tell

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13. As Fast As Her: Dream Big, Break Barriers, Achieve Success

By: Kendall Coyne

4.21

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

In this inspiring book, US Olympian and hockey star Kendall Coyne shares the grit and determination… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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14. We Were Kings

By: Court Stevens

3.89

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Twenty years ago, eighteen-year-old Francis Quick was convicted of murdering her best friend Cora K… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Singled Out: The True Story of Glenn Burke by Andrew Maraniss

15. Singled Out: The True Story of Glenn Burke

By: Andrew Maraniss

4.11

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

*"[An] excellent exercise in narrative nonfiction." -- Booklist (starred review) From New York Tim… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Maraniss's Singled Out: The True Story of Glenn Burke book and Julissa Arce's Someone Like Me: How One Undocumented Girl Fought for Her American Dream

  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers

By: Geoffrey Cowan

3.45

Format: 2 pages, Audible Audio

Listening time = 1h 43m A timely docudrama about The Washington Posts decision to publish the Pent… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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17. Faraway: Fairy Tales for the Here and Now (Faraway 5 Book Collection)

By: Rainbow Rowell

3.36

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

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  • audiobook
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18. A Time of Fear: America in the Era of Red Scares and Cold War

By: Albert Marrin

3.58

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From National Book Award Finalist and Sibert Honor Author Albert Marrin, a timely examination of Re… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • middle grade
  • audiobook
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19. This Is My America

By: Kim Johnson

4.46

Format: 416 pages, ebook

Dear Martin meets Just Mercy in this unflinching yet uplifting YA novel that explores the racist in… read more

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  • family
  • audiobook
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20. Bump

By: Chiara Atik

3.45

Format: 66 pages, Paperback

2 men, 10 women A car mechanic on the verge of becoming a grandfather, a community of expectant … read more

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  • audiobook
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21. Black Panther: Tales of Wakanda

By: Jesse J. Holland

3.69

Format: 528 pages, Kindle Edition

A ground-breaking anthology celebrating Marvel’s beloved Black Panther and his home of Wakanda, pen… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Paradise by Laura Maria Censabella

22. Paradise

By: Laura Maria Censabella

3.43

Format: 99 pages, Audiobook

Yasmeen Al-Hamadi is a Muslim, Yemeni-American senior at a struggling inner-city Bronx high school.… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of The Perfect Nine: The Epic of Gĩkũyũ and Mũmbi by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

23. The Perfect Nine: The Epic of Gĩkũyũ and Mũmbi

By: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

3.69

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling, genre-defying novel in verse, from the author Delia Owens says “tackles the absurdities… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Someone Like Me: How One Undocumented Girl Fought for Her American Dream by Julissa  Arce

24. Someone Like Me: How One Undocumented Girl Fought for Her American Dream

By: Julissa Arce

4.11

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Born in the picturesque town of Taxco, Mexico, Julissa Arce was left behind for months at a time wi… read more

Similar categories in Julissa Arce's Someone Like Me: How One Undocumented Girl Fought for Her American Dream book and Julissa Arce's Someone Like Me: How One Undocumented Girl Fought for Her American Dream

  • cultural
  • biography
  • memoir
  • coming of age
  • middle grade
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • audiobook
Cover of Caprice of Fate (Tangent Knights #1) by Christopher L. Bennett

25. Caprice of Fate (Tangent Knights #1)

By: Christopher L. Bennett

3.44

Format: 7 pages, Audiobook

GraphicAudio introduces a spectacular original Super-heroic Action Series available in no other for… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of The Truth About White Lies by Olivia A. Cole

26. The Truth About White Lies

By: Olivia A. Cole

3.34

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

For fans of I'm Not Dying with You Tonight, this gripping YA novel digs into the historical and pre… read more

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  • family
  • audiobook
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27. A Brief History of Fascist Lies

By: Federico Finchelstein

3.52

Format: 152 pages, Hardcover

"There is no better book on fascism's complex and vexed relationship with truth."––Jason Stanley, a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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28. Never Look Back

By: Lilliam Rivera

3.88

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Eury comes to the Bronx as a girl haunted. Haunted by losing everything in Hurricane Maria--and by … read more

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  • audiobook
"He is not my medicine."

-Lilliam Rivera, Never Look Back

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29. No-No Boy

By: Ken Narasaki

3.42

Format: 2 pages, Audiobook

Ken Narasaki's adaptation of the novel by Japanese-American author John Okada is set during the aft… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of The Real Hergé: The Inspiration Behind Tintin by Sian Lye

30. The Real Hergé: The Inspiration Behind Tintin

By: Sian Lye

3.48

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

Hergé created only twenty-four Tintin books which have been translated into more than seventy langu… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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31. Four Short Stories: The Horror of the Heights/The Terror of Blue John Gap/ Lot No. 249/The Sealed Room

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

3.40

Format: 6 pages, Audio CD

The listener is drawn to experience drama, suspense, and ultimately the shock of surprise in this c… read more

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  • audiobook

25 Top audiobook books like Someone Like Me: How One Undocumented Girl Fought for Her American Dream by Julissa Arce

Transform Your Habits

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Paul Volponi

3.75

Transform Your Habits

Tevye the Milkman

Sholom Aleichem

3.61

Transform Your Habits

Honestly Ben (Openly Straight, #2)

Bill Konigsberg

3.94

Transform Your Habits

28 Days

David Safier

4.29

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24 must-read audiobook books like The Real Hergé: The Inspiration Behind Tintin by Sian Lye

Transform Your Habits

The Golem's Eye (Bartimaeus, #2)

Jonathan Stroud

4.11

Transform Your Habits

Tevye the Milkman

Sholom Aleichem

3.61

Transform Your Habits

Honestly Ben (Openly Straight, #2)

Bill Konigsberg

3.94

Transform Your Habits

28 Days

David Safier

4.29

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