1
78 membres
4 critiques
4
Score 11.12
Ajouté 2020-12-15, 02:13 PM
- 4 Members
- kidzdoc, thorold, proserpinarex, cindydavid4
- Explications
- thorold: Small boy in PR Congo
2
4,520 membres
183 critiques
4
Score 10.41
Ajouté 2020-12-15, 03:37 PM
- 4 Members
- markon, kidzdoc, spiphany, cindydavid4
- Explications
- markon: Told from the perspective of a 15-yo girl, the child of a family in which her father is a devout Christian & respected businessman on the outside & a rigid & violent man in the household.
3
de Wole Soyinka
726 membres
11 critiques
4
Score 10.35
Ajouté 2020-12-15, 02:02 PM
- 4 Members
- markon, kidzdoc, thorold, cindydavid4
- Explications
- kidzdoc: author's childhood in Nigeria
4
2,049 membres
45 critiques
3.9
Score 9.9
Ajouté 2020-12-15, 02:05 PM
- 4 Members
- markon, kidzdoc, thorold, cindydavid4
- Explications
- thorold: Growing up in Zimbabwe
5
- 3 Members
- spiralsheep, Dilara86, cindydavid4
- Explications
- spiralsheep: Classic autobiographical novel of childhood in colonial French Guinea. Note: my copy is titled The African Child.Dilara86: Growing up in West Africa, in the first part of the 20th century
6
7
225 membres
5 critiques
4.1
Score 8.85
Ajouté 2020-12-15, 02:33 PM
- 3 Members
- Dilara86, spiphany, cindydavid4
- Explications
- Dilara86: A Kyrgyz childhood
8
1,791 membres
33 critiques
3.9
Score 8.75
Ajouté 2020-12-17, 11:55 PM
- 3 Members
- markon, merrystar, cindydavid4
- Explications
- merrystar: a childhood in Australia
9
4,880 membres
84 critiques
4
Score 8.71
Ajouté 2020-12-15, 01:55 PM
- 3 Members
- kidzdoc, thorold, cindydavid4
- Explications
- thorold: Rushdie’s take on the Arabian Nights
10
712 membres
91 critiques
½ 4.3
Score 8.57
Ajouté 2020-12-15, 02:32 PM
- 3 Members
- spiralsheep, cej1027, cindydavid4
- Explications
- spiralsheep: Children's book about the first female drummer in Cuba.
11
de Trevor Noah
6,117 membres
360 critiques
½ 4.4
Score 7.8
Ajouté 2020-12-15, 03:34 PM
- 3 Members
- cej1027, ahef1963, cindydavid4
12
367 membres
1 critique
½ 4.3
Score 7.61
Ajouté 2020-12-22, 04:15 AM
- 3 Members
- proserpinarex, cej1027, nrmay
13
19,631 membres
372 critiques
3.9
Score 7.55
Ajouté 2020-12-15, 03:08 PM
- 3 Members
- spiphany, ahef1963, cindydavid4
14
1,107 membres
27 critiques
3.9
Score 7.36
Ajouté 2020-12-15, 02:10 PM
- 3 Members
- kidzdoc, thorold, cindydavid4
- Explications
- thorold: First part of Coetzee’s fictionalised autobiography
15
- 2 Members
- LolaWalser, ahef1963
- Explications
- LolaWalser: Russian/Soviet children's classic by a great modernist writer (not a children's author). Made into a play, film, ballet etc.ahef1963: I used to own a copy of this. I bought it as a child at the Russian exhibit at the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto. I wonder where this book is now?
16
329 membres
6 critiques
3.8
Score 6.83
Ajouté 2020-12-15, 03:34 PM
- 3 Members
- kidzdoc, spiphany, cindydavid4
- Explications
- kidzdoc: Author's account of his childhood in colonial Kenya
17
70 membres
7 critiques
½ 3.3
Score 6.83
Ajouté 2021-03-28, 02:07 PM
18
- 3 Members
- kidzdoc, thorold, cindydavid4
- Explications
- kidzdoc: lovely story about a young girl and her grandmother on a small island in the Gulf of Finland
19
- 3 Members
- proserpinarex, spiphany, nrmay
- Explications
- nrmay: teenage boy in Damascus, Syria. YA
20
- 3 Members
- proserpinarex, cej1027, cindydavid4
21
145 membres
5 critiques
½ 4.3
Score 6.4
Ajouté 2020-12-15, 02:31 PM
- 2 Members
- proserpinarex, Dilara86
- Explications
- Dilara86: Hampâté Bâ's childhood memoirs
22
410 membres
14 critiques
3.8
Score 6.37
Ajouté 2020-12-15, 03:14 PM
- 3 Members
- markon, spiphany, cindydavid4
23
1,865 membres
23 critiques
½ 4.3
Score 6.35
Ajouté 2020-12-15, 03:01 PM
- 3 Members
- Dilara86, nrmay, cindydavid4
- Explications
- Dilara86: Or any other book from Dorling Kindersley's Children Just Like Me series
24
653 membres
30 critiques
3.8
Score 6.25
Ajouté 2020-12-16, 07:07 AM
- 3 Members
- markon, spiphany, cindydavid4
- Explications
- markon: Coming of age in Nigeria during civil war. Ijeoma learns that love between girls/women is taboo.
25
1,816 membres
35 critiques
4
Score 6.15
Ajouté 2020-12-16, 05:33 AM
- 3 Members
- thorold, spiphany, cindydavid4
- Explications
- spiphany: Adventures in 1920s Germany. Kästner also wrote an autobiographical text about growing up in pre-WWI Dresden, "When I Was a Little Boy", as well as numerous other classic children's books.
26
560 membres
2 critiques
½ 3.6
Score 6.09
Ajouté 2020-12-16, 05:40 AM
- 3 Members
- markon, spiphany, cindydavid4
- Explications
- spiphany: How the modern concept of childhood emerged in the first place.
27
37 membres
3
Score 6.06
Ajouté 2020-12-16, 06:24 AM
- 3 Members
- markon, spiphany, cindydavid4
- Explications
- spiphany: Because the idea of "childhood" as a separate phase of life isn't the same everywhere or at all periods of history
28
1,282 membres
12 critiques
4.2
Score 6.04
Ajouté 2021-01-01, 05:05 PM
29
759 membres
39 critiques
½ 3.4
Score 5.94
Ajouté 2020-12-16, 02:59 AM
- 2 Members
- kidzdoc, cindydavid4
- Explications
- kidzdoc: 2020 Booker International Prize novel narrated by a young girl in a family in grief after the accidental death of the oldest son.
30
- 2 Members
- thorold, cindydavid4
- Explications
- thorold: Germany, 1930s, perfect title for this theme!cindydavid4: Really that is a perfect tite for this theme!
31
2,840 membres
103 critiques
4
Score 5.6
Ajouté 2021-04-27, 04:49 PM
- 2 Members
- proserpinarex, nrmay
- Explications
- nrmay: Afghanistan. 1st of 4 in the series.
32
- 4 Members
- markon, thorold, spiphany, cindydavid4,spiralsheep ,LolaWalser
- Explications
- thorold: You don’t have to approve, but it is the book that gave millions of westerners an idea of what it might be like to be a child in India
33
- 2 Members
- LolaWalser, proserpinarex
- Explications
- LolaWalser: Gorky's masterpiece, lyrical and brutal, with a grandmother as magnificent and important as Proust's.
34
de Riad Sattouf
734 membres
31 critiques
3.9
Score 5.42
Ajouté 2020-12-20, 05:09 PM
- 2 Members
- LolaWalser, proserpinarex
- Explications
- LolaWalser: Fantastic series of graphic novels about a Franco-Arab boy's childhood between Libya, Syria and France.
35
de Jean Fritz
1,714 membres
17 critiques
½ 3.7
Score 5.38
Ajouté 2021-01-01, 05:04 PM
36
de Kenzaburō Ōe
961 membres
29 critiques
½ 3.7
Score 5.23
Ajouté 2020-12-16, 03:11 AM
- 2 Members
- kidzdoc, cindydavid4
- Explications
- kidzdoc: A group of reform school boys are forced to fend for themselves after their community is evacuated due to a plague
37
- 2 Members
- spiralsheep, proserpinarex
- Explications
- spiralsheep: Novel about a privileged childhood in Burundi disrupted by civil war.
38
39
41
1,416 membres
45 critiques
3.9
Score 4.85
Ajouté 2020-12-16, 06:27 AM
42
1,284 membres
206 critiques
4
Score 4.84
Ajouté 2021-04-27, 05:19 PM
43
- 2 Members
- merrystar, cindydavid4
- Explications
- merrystar: Autobiography of the author's childhood in British-ruled Indiacindydavid4: Her Far Pavillions is one of my all time fav books and itself a book that could be included in the theme. This title looks very interestijg and i want to read it
44
de Yuyi Morales
204 membres
25 critiques
4.1
Score 4.81
Ajouté 2020-12-15, 03:40 PM
- 2 Members
- spiralsheep, proserpinarex
- Explications
- spiralsheep: Mythic children's fantasy. Mexican author and illustrator.
45
- 2 Members
- proserpinarex, Dilara86
- Explications
- Dilara86: Children growing up in an Angolan shanty town
46
de Hisham Matar
1,284 membres
61 critiques
½ 3.7
Score 4.64
Ajouté 2020-12-16, 06:52 AM
47
9 membres
2 critiques
½ 4.5
Score 4.61
Ajouté 2020-12-15, 02:31 PM
- 2 Members
- spiralsheep, proserpinarex
- Explications
- spiralsheep: Children's retelling of a traditional Greenlandic Inuit story.
48
54 membres
1 critique
½ 4.3
Score 4.49
Ajouté 2020-12-15, 03:06 PM
- 2 Members
- spiralsheep, proserpinarex
- Explications
- spiralsheep: Children's story by Nicaraguan author. Translated into several languages.
49
50
879 membres
176 critiques
3.8
Score 4.46
Ajouté 2021-04-27, 05:47 PM
51
- 2 Members
- spiralsheep, proserpinarex
- Explications
- spiralsheep: Children's story by the first woman Pacific Islander to publish a book. Frisbie also wrote the autobiographical novel Frisbees of the South Seas.
52
- 2 Members
- proserpinarex, nrmay
- Explications
- nrmay: Hindu child living during the 1947 partition of India. Newbery Honor Book.
53
12 membres
1 critique
½ 3.5
Score 4.2
Ajouté 2020-12-16, 06:49 AM
- 2 Members
- spiralsheep, proserpinarex
- Explications
- spiralsheep: Children's book set in what is now the Central African Republic. I haven't read it but it's reputedly a classic.
54
25 membres
1 critique
4
Score 4
Ajouté 2020-12-16, 05:56 AM
55
- Member
- jburlinson
56
57
- Member
- Ifland
58
- Member
- spiralsheep
- Explications
- spiralsheep: Childhood in El Salvador.
59
- Member
- Tess_W
60
61
63
- 2 Members
- proserpinarex, nrmay
- Explications
- nrmay: gay teenage girls in Iran. YA
64
65
de Carlos Eire
1,085 membres
25 critiques
3.9
Score 3.85
Ajouté 2020-12-28, 10:42 AM
- 2 Members
- cej1027, cindydavid4
66
- 2 Members
- proserpinarex, nrmay
- Explications
- nrmay: young boy in war-torn Cambodia.
67
103 membres
3 critiques
3.9
Score 3.79
Ajouté 2021-03-21, 07:52 AM
69
478 membres
24 critiques
½ 3.7
Score 3.53
Ajouté 2021-02-01, 02:47 PM
- 2 Members
- proserpinarex, cindydavid4
70
437 membres
10 critiques
3.9
Score 3.36
Ajouté 2021-04-27, 04:49 PM
72
- Member
- LolaWalser
- Explications
- LolaWalser: American childhoods. African American boys in Alabama who were sent to juvenile institutions, often for little reason, and subject to abuse.
73
- Member
- spiralsheep
- Explications
- spiralsheep: Novel about growing up in Antigua.
74
75
- Member
- LolaWalser
- Explications
- LolaWalser: Abdeslam, a Moroccan boy of 11 and a runaway narrates his adventures. The story was shaped by Paul Bowles, who "discovered" Mrabet.
77
8 membres
Score 3.04
Ajouté 2020-12-15, 01:59 PM
- Member
- LolaWalser
- Explications
- LolaWalser: An unusual work within the opus of the Caribbean (Trinidad) Marxist historian C. L. R. James.
78
de Nancy Farmer
1,625 membres
28 critiques
½ 3.7
Score 2.83
Ajouté 2021-04-27, 04:50 PM
80
204 membres
15 critiques
3.8
Score 2.83
Ajouté 2020-12-15, 02:38 PM
82
305 membres
11 critiques
½ 4.5
Score 2.68
Ajouté 2021-04-27, 04:57 PM
83
de Abi Daré
1,540 membres
50 critiques
4.2
Score 2.56
Ajouté 2021-04-27, 05:17 PM
84
3,717 membres
156 critiques
4.2
Score 2.38
Ajouté 2021-04-27, 05:20 PM
85
2,795 membres
158 critiques
4.1
Score 2.31
Ajouté 2021-04-27, 05:27 PM
86
475 membres
12 critiques
4
Score 2.25
Ajouté 2020-12-16, 05:11 AM
- Member
- spiralsheep
- Explications
- spiralsheep: Children's book. I've never read this but am assured by RG members LW and AM that it's good.
87
de Carol Matas
311 membres
5 critiques
½ 3.7
Score 2.25
Ajouté 2021-04-27, 05:31 PM
88
de Ruta Sepetys
4,985 membres
350 critiques
½ 4.3
Score 2.11
Ajouté 2021-04-27, 06:22 PM
90
139 membres
10 critiques
4
Score 1.97
Ajouté 2021-06-01, 04:57 PM
91
- Member
- nrmay
92
1,587 membres
37 critiques
3.8
Score 1.89
Ajouté 2021-06-01, 11:03 PM
95
96
- Member
- proserpinarex
97
1,846 membres
35 critiques
3.8
Score 1.83
Ajouté 2021-06-01, 11:17 PM