Biography & Autobiography Books for Kids
878 books in biography & autobiography. Every book rated for reading level and content intensity.
Biography & Autobiography books for kids span a wider readiness range than parents usually expect. The same genre category contains gentle picture books and high-intensity middle-grade novels — Lexile and grade-level scores measure text complexity, not what's actually in the story. A biography & autobiography title appropriate for a confident 8-year-old reader could still cover themes a sensitive 12-year-old isn't ready for.
Across HootRated's 878 biography & autobiography titles, books span picture books through Grade 12. About 75% are rated Gentle or Mild — safe picks for sensitive readers and kids reading ahead of their emotional readiness. 6% sit at the Intense or Very Intense end. Average content intensity is 1.8/5.
Use the intensity badges (green → red, low → high) to filter by emotional readiness rather than just age. For deeper detail on how we rate, see our rating methodology.
Profiles in courage
John F. Kennedy
Profiles in courage
John F. Kennedy
Level 11-12 Mild
Meet Rory Hohenstein, a professional dancer
Jill Duvall
Meet Rory Hohenstein, a professional dancer
Jill Duvall
Level 2-3 Gentle
Chef Ki is serving dinner!
Jill Duvall
Chef Ki is serving dinner!
Jill Duvall
Level 2-3 Gentle
Mr. Duvall reports the news
Jill Duvall
Mr. Duvall reports the news
Jill Duvall
Level 3-4 Gentle
Emily Dickinson
Bonita E. Thayer
Emily Dickinson
Bonita E. Thayer
Level 4-5 Gentle
Blackbird
Jennifer Lauck
Blackbird
Jennifer Lauck
Level 4-5 Very Intense
Little Sure Shot
Stephanie Spinner
Little Sure Shot
Stephanie Spinner
Level 3-4 Gentle
Inventors and Creators - George Washington Carver (Inventors and Creators)
Raymond H. Miller
Inventors and Creators - George Washington Carver (Inventors and Creators)
Raymond H. Miller
Level 7-8 Gentle
Stan Lee
Miller, Raymond H.
Stan Lee
Miller, Raymond H.
Level 7-8 Gentle
George Washington Carver
Vicky Franchino
George Washington Carver
Vicky Franchino
Level 3-4 Gentle
Rosa Parks
Sneed B. Collard
Rosa Parks
Sneed B. Collard
Level 4-5 Mild
Billy the Kid
Roger Bruns
Billy the Kid
Roger Bruns
Level 7-8 Moderate
Mary Todd Lincoln
Mary Hull
Mary Todd Lincoln
Mary Hull
Level 8-9 Moderate
Louisa May Alcott
Karen Clemens Warrick
Louisa May Alcott
Karen Clemens Warrick
Level 7-8 Mild
Franklin Pierce
Jeff C. Young
Franklin Pierce
Jeff C. Young
Level 7-8 Gentle
Mary, wayfarer
Mary E. Mebane
Mary, wayfarer
Mary E. Mebane
Level 6-7 Moderate
The air down here
Gil C. Alicea
The air down here
Gil C. Alicea
Level 4-5 Moderate
The Flamboya Tree
Clara Kelly
The Flamboya Tree
Clara Kelly
Level 6-7 Intense
George Washington
Candice F. Ransom
George Washington
Candice F. Ransom
Level 4-5 Moderate
Michelangelo
Charles G. Quill
Michelangelo
Charles G. Quill
Level 5-6 Gentle
George Armstrong Custer
Paul Christopher Anderson
George Armstrong Custer
Paul Christopher Anderson
Level 7-8 Moderate
Bill Gates, billionaire computer genius
Joan D. Dickinson
Bill Gates, billionaire computer genius
Joan D. Dickinson
Level 6-7 Gentle
Bill Gates
Adam Woog
Bill Gates
Adam Woog
Level 8-9 Gentle
Martin Luther King, Jr.
John F. Wukovits
Martin Luther King, Jr.
John F. Wukovits
Level 8-9 Moderate
Jim Carrey
John F. Wukovits
Jim Carrey
John F. Wukovits
Level 8-9 Gentle
Colin Powell
John F. Wukovits
Colin Powell
John F. Wukovits
Level 9-10 Mild
Drew Barrymore
Hill, Anne E.
Drew Barrymore
Hill, Anne E.
Level 7-8 Moderate
Medieval knights and warriors
Janet R. Zohorsky
Medieval knights and warriors
Janet R. Zohorsky
Level 9-10 Mild
People in the News - Sting (People in the News)
Hill, Anne E.
People in the News - Sting (People in the News)
Hill, Anne E.
Level 7-8 Gentle
African-American inventors III
Susan K. Henderson
African-American inventors III
Susan K. Henderson
Level 5-6 Gentle
José de San Martín
José B. Fernández
José de San Martín
José B. Fernández
Level 5-6 Mild
Scott Joplin the King of Ragtime
C. Ogbu Sabir
Scott Joplin the King of Ragtime
C. Ogbu Sabir
Level 5-6 Gentle
Ralph Bunche
Joseph D. McNair
Ralph Bunche
Joseph D. McNair
Level 6-7 Gentle
John Jay
Stuart A. Kallen
John Jay
Stuart A. Kallen
Level 6-7 Gentle
Britney Spears (Young Profiles)
Tamara L. Britton
Britney Spears (Young Profiles)
Tamara L. Britton
Level 4-5 Gentle
Robert La Salle
Trish Kline
Robert La Salle
Trish Kline
Level 3-4 Gentle
Belonging
Michelle Miller
Belonging
Michelle Miller
Level 7 Moderate
Breaking Rockefeller
Peter B. Doran
Breaking Rockefeller
Peter B. Doran
Level 9 Mild
The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank
The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank
Level 6-7 Intense
The glass castle
Jeannette Walls
The glass castle
Jeannette Walls
Level 5-6 Intense
Bookclub Presenter
Marilyn Herbert, Samantha Bailey
Bookclub Presenter
Marilyn Herbert, Samantha Bailey
Level 3 Moderate
Smith
Robin S. Doak
Smith
Robin S. Doak
Level 2 Mild
The dream of water
Kyoko Mori
The dream of water
Kyoko Mori
Level 6 Moderate
Frozen
Mary Casanova
Frozen
Mary Casanova
Level 5-6 Moderate
Mourning a Father Lost
Avraham Balaban
Mourning a Father Lost
Avraham Balaban
Level 6 Moderate
George Clooney and the crisis in Darfur
Tamra Orr
George Clooney and the crisis in Darfur
Tamra Orr
Level 8-9 Moderate
Edge
Jason Nemeth
Edge
Jason Nemeth
Level 4-5 Mild
Idina Menzel
Heather E. Schwartz
Idina Menzel
Heather E. Schwartz
Level 4-5 Gentle
I Beat the Odds: From Homelessness, to the Blindsind and beyond
Michael Oher, Don Yaeger
I Beat the Odds: From Homelessness, to the Blindsind and beyond
Michael Oher, Don Yaeger
Level 6-7 Moderate
Reena
Manjit Virk
Reena
Manjit Virk
Level 4-5 Moderate
DAUGHTER OF THE KILLING FIELDS: ASREI'S STORY.
THEARY C. SENG
DAUGHTER OF THE KILLING FIELDS: ASREI'S STORY.
THEARY C. SENG
Level 6 Moderate
Just this side of normal
Elizabeth K. Gerlach
Just this side of normal
Elizabeth K. Gerlach
Level 4-5 Mild
John F. Kennedy
Hourly History
John F. Kennedy
Hourly History
Level 2 Moderate
The Rock says
Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson
The Rock says
Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson
Level 6-7
Britney Spears
Jackie Robb
Britney Spears
Jackie Robb
Level 4-5
What became of the Mamelukes?
Mary Irene Cathcart Borer
What became of the Mamelukes?
Mary Irene Cathcart Borer
Level 3
The singing creek where the willows grow
Opal Stanley Whiteley
The singing creek where the willows grow
Opal Stanley Whiteley
Level 7
When we were colored
Clifton L. Taulbert
When we were colored
Clifton L. Taulbert
Level 6-7
Portrait of Mary
Nikki Grimes
Portrait of Mary
Nikki Grimes
Level 5-6
Between the devil and the sea
Brenda A. Johnston
Between the devil and the sea
Brenda A. Johnston
Level 4-5
Browse all 878 biography & autobiography books
- The alchemists: magic into science
- Self-portrait
- America, lost & found
- Dennis Byrd
- Brigie, a life, 1965-1981
- Mayflower bastard
- A parting gift
- David Boreanaz
- I skate!
- Shadowchild
- We were there, too!
- Mikhail Baryshnikov
- A. Philip Randolph
- The fisherman's song
- Free woman
- Babe Didrikson Zaharias
- Across America on an emigrant train
- Winston Churchill
- Famous New England authors.
- Carl Sagan
- The Queen's favourites
- Roberto Clemente, batting king.
- The ghost of Elvis, and other celebrity spirits
- Jimmy Connors, king of the courts
- Lenin
- Souls looking back
- Let's read about-- Christopher Columbus
- Bravo two zero
- Meet the stars of Dawson's Creek
- A teenager's journey
- Sandra Day O'Connor
- Calvin Coolidge
- Steven Spielberg
- Andrew Young, freedom fighter
- Will Rogers, American humorist
- Nancy Lopez, wonder woman of golf
- Calvin Murphy, the giant slayer
- Michael Jordan
- John Paul Jones
- The story of Lexington and Concord
- The story of Geronimo
- Mussolini, a dictator dies
- Isiah Thomas
- Elizabeth Bloomer Ford, 1918-
- Daniel Boone and the Cumberland Gap
- William Henry Harrison
- Sins of the father
- Playing America's game
- Albert Einstein
- Charles Lindbergh
- Latinos in béisbol
- Robert E. Peary and the fight for the North Pole
- Sir Francis Drake
- The voyages of Captain Cook
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Born different
- Cheaper by the Dozen
- The wonderful story of Jesus
- TV now
- Fight on!
- Kansas Charley
- Jean Piaget
- Mary
- Stars come out within
- Isadora dances
- Fiend
- The last emperor
- Black patriot and martyr
- Yankee spy, Elizabeth Van Lew.
- Civil War nurse, Mary Ann Bickerdyke
- Eisenhower
- The police.
- Memoir of James Jackson, the attentive and obedient scholar, who died in Boston, October 31, 1833, aged six years and eleven months
- Jackal woman
- The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
- Fur trader of the North
- Dr. Elizabeth
- Romany free
- Stephen Crane
- Ernest Hemingway
- Pitchers
- Airborne again!
- Country childhoods
- To the rescue
- The wild blue
- Waiting for snow in Havana
- 1776
- She Said Yes
- The Stuart princesses
- Lord Baltimore
- Across a dark and wild sea
- Exploration of North America.
- American science fiction and fantasy writers
- Legends of American dance and choreography
- The Alger Hiss communist spy trial
- Colin Powell
- Running in the family
- Nancy Kerrigan
- Football's Fallen Hero - The Jack Trice Story
- Annie Oakley, the shooting star
- Rose Kennedy
- Jazz stars
- Pete Rose
- Groucho Marx
- Liberace
- Superstars of women's basketball
- Whitney Houston
- Diane Sawyer
- Virginia Woolf
- Robert Cormier
- Mississippi steamboatman
- Black Elk speaks
- Phantom limb
- Brother eagle, sister sky
- Playing away
- Thurgood Marshall
- Unknown shore
- Dawn Powell
- Isaiah, messenger for God
- Road racers
- Discipline in the classroom
- Two pioneers of young adult library services
- Four women of courage
- Behind the plate: three great catchers
- Bobby Orr, lightning on ice
- Henry Aaron
- Football running backs
- On good land
- Christopher Columbus
- A day in the life of a stunt person
- Famous people
- Young Abigail Adams
- American Indian contributors to American life
- Got a penny?
- Close calls
- Theodor Herzl
- Heroes of journalism.
- Michael Jordan
- The story of Thurgood Marshall
- When America was young.
- Pirate treasure
- The Arab Marco Polo, Ibn Battuta
- Queen Esther saves her people
- A bridge of children's books
- Can Lily O'Shea come out to play?
- Stoney, the one and only
- Steven Jobs
- William Gaines
- Ted Kennedy, Jr.
- Jim Henson
- Steven Spielberg, he makes great movies
- Joseph Conrad
- The miracle on the mountain
- From Maryland to Cooperstown
- Arthur Ashe
- Jim Brown runs with the ball.
- Pontiac, Indian general and statesman
- A. J. Foyt
- Coretta King, a woman of peace.
- An interview with Lynne Cox
- The summer of ordinary ways
- Oscar Howe
- Red son rising
- Michael Naranjo
- Politics and government
- Señor Alcalde
- Making headlines
- Whoopi Goldberg
- Onstage/backstage
- The soldiers' voice
- Ms adventures
- Pericles
- Simón Bolívar
- Hernán Cortés
- Evonne Goolagong
- Osceola
- Robert E. Lee
- Marianne Moore
- Edwin Arlington Robinson
- Cynthia Ann Parker, Indian captive
- Milk, meat biscuits, and the terraqueous machine
- Elisabet Ney, sculptor of American heroes
- The Nobel Prize winners
- The Nobel Prize winners.
- Archimedes, greatest scientist of the ancient world
- Shirley Chisholm, teacher and Congresswoman
- Amelia Earhart
- Ken Griffey, Jr., & Ken Griffey, Sr.
- Bernadette, Our Lady's little servant
- New-- Saint Joseph beginner's book of saints
- Roberto Clemente and the world series upset.
- Evel Knievel, motorcycle daredevil
- A privileged marriage
- The value of understanding
- The home children
- Ridin' the rainbow
- Confessions of a Hollywood P.I.
- The assassination of a candidate
- James A. Garfield, 20th President of the United States
- The unforgotten war
- War orphan in San Franciso
- Broken: In the Best Possible Way
- Francisco Coronado
- Christopher Columbus
- Sharon Creech
- Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Elijah Muhammad
- Louisa May Alcott
- John Quincy Adams
- Two Badges
- LaSalle and the grand enterprise
- Anwar Sadat
- Alexander the Great
- Queen Victoria
- Great male comedians
- Pioneers of the American West
- Great women comedians
- Football's Finest
- Jimmy Carter
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- The Scopes trial
- Nelson Mandela
- On the Frontier With Mr. Audubon
- The Next Better Place
- Mother Teresa
- Benedict Arnold and the American Revolution
- Astrology looks at history
- John F. Kennedy
- Standing tall
- Bethy and the Mouse
- Seeing stars
- I just called her Momma
- Emmitt Smith
- Millard Fillmore
- Rutherford B. Hayes
- My mother's eyes
- Luis Alvarez and the development of the bubble chamber
- Escapes from slavery
- American War Library - The War on Terrorism
- Determination
- Almost French
- The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin
- Other times
- Top Entrepreneurs and Their Businesses (Profiles)
- George Rogers Clark, boy of the Northwest frontier
- Temporary child
- Mary Wollstonecraft and the Rights of Women (Notable Americans Series)
- Joseph Pulitzer and the New York World
- Confessions of a brain-impaired writer
- Yo, baby, it's attitude!
- Raggin' the blues
- The Famous Five
- Christopher Columbus
- The girl with white flag
- Beautiful child
- Please Don't Make Me Go
- My father's keeper
- The saddest girl in the world
- Dare to Dream
- Mummy's little helper
- Will You Love Me? Pt. 1 of 3, Chapters 1-9 : The Story of My Adopted Daughter Lucy
- Will You Love Me? Pt. 2 of 3, Chapters 10-16 : The Story of My Adopted Daughter Lucy
- Child Bride
- Child Bride
- Safe Place for Joey
- I know what you are
- Nobody's Son : Part 3 Of 3
- Dead Now of Course
- Betsy Ross, designer of our flag
- People in the News 1996 (People in the News)
- Photographers and Filmmakers (Macmillan Profiles)
- The Fork River space project
- Movin' up
- Dear genius
- Finding Fish
- First families
- My Jesus year
- Little Princes
- Memoirs of a Jewish Extremist
- Finding Ben
- Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul (Chicken Soup)
- Ben
- Tortured
- Sickened
- Custer
- Saints of Scotland (Scottie Books)
- World Explorer
- World Explorer
- Escape King
- Lytton Strachey
- Oh the glory of it all
- Stolen voices
- Lincoln, in his own words
- Colin Powell
- Women of the World
- DK Life Stories Anne Frank (reissue)
- Rachel in the World
- My Germany
- Michael Berenstain's Who Am I?
- Dinosaur Books
- The Ingenious Mr. Fairchild
- The Lost King of France
- The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll
- Burning Fence
- My life outside the ring
- Inside Seal Team Six
- Miracles from Heaven
- Defending Baltimore Against Enemy Attack
- I Gotta Be Free
- The Dungeon Master
- Interesting People
- Never tell our business to strangers
- Burn down the ground
- The four of us
- Christopher Columbus (Why They Became Famous)
- John Muir
- Here Comes Annette
- Lift Every Voice
- Tiny Tim
- The Vikings
- The shape of the eye
- Child, please
- David
- Tornado
- Single handed
- The Osbournes-- bleeped!
- Take a Giant Leap, Neil Armstrong!
- Dewey
- Without a word
- The Cross and the Switchblade
- René-Robert Cavelier, sieur de La Salle
- Cowboys and cattle drives
- Bill Cosby
- George Washington
- Pocahontas
- Stevie Wonder (Center Stage)
- Julian Lennon (Center Stage)
- Sylvester Stallone (Center Stage)
- Lawrence Taylor
- Dave Winfield
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Illustrated Biographical Dictionary
- Charlotte Forten
- Home Made
- Bogart
- Marie Curie
- Beautiful Boy
- Under the Influence
- Christ and the Kalashnikov
- The house by the Dvina
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- Raising Cain
- Yasi the Champion
- Superstars
- Meet Canadian authors and illustrators
- Mighty Babe Ruth
- Peanuts Connect-The-Dots Animals
- My Personality Album
- Mr. President
- George Washington
- My Favorite Time of the Year
- Classic Sports Shots Books 1-6 States , Facts, & Photos six 48 page Biographies Bae Ruth,Ted Williams,Willie Mays,Jackie Robinson ,Lou Gehrig,Mickey Mantle
- We are witnesses
- Sunset Route
- You Deserve Good Gelato
- Mary Quite Contrary
- Paul Revere, Son of Liberty
- Famous People of Hispanic Heritage
- Elvis Presley
- Rising Stars
- Billy Graham the Great Evangelist
- George Lucas
- Viktor Frankl
- Humphrey
- Just don't fall
- The peasant prince
- Children in the Holocaust and World War II
- Mark Twain? What Kind of Name Is That?
- Uncommon Knowledge
- War News
- Wilbur and Orville Wright
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- The Puritans in America
- The net of dreams
- Escape from slavery
- I Am a Dancer (Young Dreamers) (Young Dreamers)
- Joan of Arc
- Ted Kennedy, Jr.
- Christa McAuliffe
- Dale Murphy
- Bill Cosby
- Diana Ross
- Value of Understanding
- The Diary and Autobiography of John Adams, 2
- Senator Robert F. Wagner and the Rise of Urban Liberalism
- Finding Fish
- Marc Chagall
- Uptown Girl
- Bukayo Saka
- Makers of nineteenth century culture, 1800-1914
- Tuesday's Child
- Craig, the boy who lives
- Bella's Gift
- Quaker Cavalier
- White Lies
- Thomas Jefferson
- Jeff Gordon (Sports Heroes)
- Daniel Boone
- Albert Einstein
- Euthanasia
- Osama Bin Laden
- Cabin by the River
- Arc of Justice
- Neil Armstrong
- Raintree Biographies
- Blitz Boy
- Secrets Of
- Jim Henson
- Cabot
- Water scientists
- Why did she jump?
- Ferdinand Magellan
- The Star Houses
- A good and perfect gift
- Mary Church Terrell
- Dr. Seuss
- Biography Today 2000
- Biography Today: Profiles of People of Interest to Young Readers
- Biography Today
- Sports
- Moses Knows the Ten Commandments
- Jackie Joyner-Kersee
- Standing Tall
- Michael and Natasha
- Eisenhower
- Robert E. Lee
- What a Party!: My Life Among Democrats
- Shrub
- W
- Have a Little Faith
- Chelsea Clinton's freshman notebook
- Something About the Author v. 125
- Authors & Artists For Young Adults (Authors and Artists for Young Adults)
- Something About the Author v. 152
- Harriet Tubman
- Lions, Tigers, and Big, Bad Bears
- Ulysses S. Grant (Discovery Biographies)
- Edward R. Murrow (Chelsea House Library of Biography)
- Linda Richards (Discovery Biographies)
- Ernest Thompson Seton (Discovery Biographies)
- Stokely Carmichael
- Louis Braille
- Carl Lewis
- Nat Turner
- Science & Discovery
- Vanessa Williams (Black Americans of Achievement)
- The Wild West
- The Apollo 13 misson
- Condoleezza Rice
- Bulls-eye
- The Big Bio of Ross Perot
- Iowa
- Lost Boy
- Lewis Carroll & his illustrators
- Barnum Brown
- Bigger than Life
- Solace of Stones
- Polite lies
- We're alive and life goes on
- Patrick O'Brian
- Pol Pot
- Washington's general
- I Am a Pencil
- Oye, Celia!
- The Buried Book
- Indian summer
- Jane's fame
- Oscar's books
- Fragments
- Truthquest Survival Guide
- Philip
- The Spirit of Simon
- Keeping School
- All the Rage
- Virginia Woolf
- Prison baby
- The first marathon: the legend of Pheidippides
- Dear Mrs. Roosevelt
- Roots
- Iñigo
- Something About the Author v. 68
- Something About the Author Autobiography (Something About the Author Autobiography Series)
- Such a Simple Little Tale
- Russell Freedman
- Viva México!
- All for the better
- Viva México!
- The Autobiography Box
- Modern Greek
- How to be President
- Orchids Journal
- Band ID
- Art of Modern Rock: Poster Girls - Mini #2
- Kelly Slater
- A Force for Nature
- Somebody somewhere
- The pretenders
- Beginning Biographies
- The Case of Peter Rabbit
- Four Letters to the Witnesses of My Childhood (Religion, Theology and the Holocaust)
- James Monroe, young patriot
- Abraham Lincoln
- Young Reggie Jackson
- African American History
- Diana
- Beyond the whiteness of whiteness
- Madame Curie
- Charlie Chaplin
- Oprah Winfrey
- Pull Ahead Biographies
- Leontyne Price
- American Legends
- About the Author Set 2
- Seventh book of junior authors & illustrators
- Transcendent Spirit
- Through the Eyes of a Street Child
- I Walk in Space
- Inventors and Inventions
- The Olsen twins, Mary-Kate and Ashley
- Jane Addams
- Mao Zedong (Judge for Yourself)
- Paul Robeson, citizen of the world
- Batting a thousand
- The Way I See It
- Kate Greenaway
- Walk to Beautiful: The Power of Love and a Homeless Kid Who Found the Way
- Nina Otero-Warren of Santa Fe
- Zimbabwe's plunge
- Explorers
- Harry Belafonte
- Alvin Ailey
- Hillary and Tenzing
- Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce
- Roberta Flack
- Elton John
- Fred Lynn
- Rosi Mittermaier
- Gymnastics' happy superstar, Olga Korbut
- The Bee Gees
- The Ebony book of Black achievement.
- No Ordinary Move
- Orphans' Nine Commandments
- Siobhan's journey
- Robert Louis Stevenson in California
- Maya Explorer
- Growing in the Catholic Faith (Friendship in the Lord Series)
- Chief William McIntosh
- George Washington
- Ludwig Van Beethoven
- We are Fire!
- The White-Haired Girl
- The illustrator's notebook
- Growing up in Maine
- Christopher Columbus
- Henry!
- Patty!
- Rocks and minerals
- Righting wrongs
- My book for kids with cansur [i.e. cancer]
- Got me a story to tell
- Totty
- Cancer's Gift
- The Lost Childhood
- My Amazing Adventures
- Dewey Doo-it helps Owlie fly again
- Brando unzipped
- Because of Romek
- Our Life on the Run
- Words only I can speak
- Stolen from my arms
- E.D. Nixon
- Autobiography of Malcolm X
- All I Can Handle : I'm No Mother Teresa
- Frances Tustin
- I am a SEAL Team Six warrior
- Happiness: the crooked little road to semi-ever after
- Duke
- Unraveled
- Love in the Driest Season
- Vows
- Thunder Dog : A Blind Man, His Guide Dog, and the Triumph of Trust at Ground Zero
- A Promise Fulfilled
- A Big Little Life
- Forbidden lessons in a Kabul guesthouse
- Thinking About Memoir (AARP)
- Susan B. Anthony and the women's movement
- Divided lives
- Julius Caesar
- Spartacus
- Cleopatra
- The Hunt For Osama Bin Laden (Frontline Coverage of Current Events)
- Bob Fosse (The Library of American Choreographers)
- Bono
- Al Gore and global warming
- Frédéric Chopin
- Richard the Lionheart
- Yao Ming
- Barack Obama
- Tammy Abraham
- Precious
- Something about the Author
- Something about the Author
- When Will I Get In? (American History Through Primary Sources)
- Rosalind Franklin
- Have You Seen My Kids? A Story of Hope, Inspiration, and What NOT to Do If Your Children Are Abducted
- My fathers' daughter
- Angela Bassett (Black Americans of Achievement (Paperback))
- Tony Blair (Major World Leaders (Paperback))
- Nevermore
- Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great
- Great Inventors And Their Inventions
- Hamid Karzai
- Mary J. Blige
- Mary J. Blige
- Tattoos on the heart
- Educated
- Wild things
- The broken and the whole
- Elizabeth Taylor
- Library of Luminaries : Coco Chanel
- All Hail the Queen
- All Hail the Queen
- Habit
- From Molested to Majestic
- Cincinnati Private Eye Protecting Princess Di
- Joe Biden
- Empty cradle
- This Is Our Story
- How I Learned
- Noisy at the Wrong Times
- Girls of Paper and Fire
- Malala Yousafzai
- The ninth child
- Eleanor Cameron
- Duke
- Wolf Boys
- Raising Trump
- Hazard
- Women Sports Stars
- Sisters first
- Sisters First
- Ronda Rousey
- Adventure on Thunder Island (Blue Kite Series)
- Hockey's Young Superstars
- Kathy's Story
- A. Philip Randolph
- Paul Robeson
- Eugene Debs
- A snowman on the pitcher's mound
- How They Lived
- Thurgood Marshall
- The Rolling Stones
- Magicians and illusionists
- American War Library - Leaders and Generals of the Vietnam War (American War Library)
- History Makers - Pioneers of the Internet (History Makers)
- One of the boys
- African-American inventors.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
- Chief Justice William Rehnquist (Supreme Court Justices)
- The White House Kids
- Bandits & outlaws
- Harriet Tubman and the underground railroad.
- Lincoln's little girl
- Robin Hood
- Hudson Taylor
- Educating Esmé
- Martina Navratilova
- Mercedes Sosa
- Library of Famous Women Juniors - Oprah Winfrey
- Vicente Fox
- Barney
- Ichiro
- The saga of Black Navy veterans of World War II
- Meet the Presidents
- Strange son
- Respect
- Make a Joyful Noise (New Christian Series)
- David Brainerd (Young Readers Christian Library)
- Sylvester
- Barry Sanders (Jam Session)
- Jeff Gordon (Jam Session)
- Star Tracks
- Breaking Barriers Set III
- My Jewish Year
- Jesus Land
- A house with no roof
- Boys who rocked the world
- Braver Than I Thought
- The Story of Microsoft (Spirit of Success)
- Freddie Prinze, Jr.
- Selman Waksman and the Discovery of Streptomycin (Unlocking the Secrets of Science) (Unlocking the Secrets of Science)
- Yummy
- Backpack Books
- Notable African American writers (3 Vols.)
- Mary of Bellingham
- The Fiction Editor, The Novel, And The Novelist
- Traveling Home for Christmas
- American War Library - The War on Terrorism
- Tara Lipinski (Female Figure Skating Legends)
- Oops! Wrong Family
- Britney Spears
- Awesome Athletes Set III
- The big book of dummies, rebels and other geniuses
- The Wilder life
- Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen
- The American presidents
- Hugo Chavez
- Jughead with Archie in Family photos
- Chinese Deluxe Set with Book(s) (Teach Me)
- Trey Parker, Matt Stone, and South Park
- Christopher Paul Curtis
- Ma, Now I'm Goin up in the World
- Understanding Roberto Bolaño
- Truth Book
- Alexander the Great
- Elizabeth I
- Alvin Ailey
- Jerome Robbins
- A lethal inheritance
- Dust bowl girls
- Wheat Songs
- Little Richard
- Dawn of the new everything
- The most wanted man in China
- Consequence
- Trapped
- Amidst the Shadows of Trees
- Chased by Death
- Queerspawn in love
- Redeemable
- Farewell
- Great Asian Americans
- Chocolate
- Battle Order 204
- Fear of Food
- Running to Stand Still
- Luisa and the magic star
- Savile - the Beast
- 101 Amazing Facts about Emblem3
- Woody Guthrie
- Fry's Ties
- Beatles Anthology (25th Anniversary Edition)
- Darkness visible
- Wizards
- Childhood Interrupted
- HIGH NOON OF EMPIRE
- Love and Tears
- Raise Your Soul
- Sunrise west
- Murdering the mom
- Good girls marry doctors
- Keep Singing
- Queens Pirate
- Shakespeare for Children
- Queens Pirate
- A piece of the mountain
- The River of Grace
- Famous people of Hispanic heritage
- There's a Boy in Here
- Small Change
- Twenty Texans
- John Elway, armed and dangerous
- Looking After
- Between myself and them
- Le Meilleur de Tchaikovsky
- Uma Thurman
- Where Courage Lives
- In Mania's Memory
- The Prime Minister's son
- A life of our own
- Jim Bowie
- On The Banks of Big Elk Creek
- Mary Maverick of Old San Antonio (Pioneer Texans, 2)
- Kaddishel
- Iraq through a bullet hole
- Frederic Chopin, Son of Poland, Early Years (Great Musicians Series)
- A Teenager in Hitler's Death Camps
- Warrior Mother
- Hoo Knew?!
- Starved
- Edna
- Perilous Adventures of Time Travel
- Boy Becomes a Man
- Christopher Columbus and the Americas
- Filthy Beasts
- Because God Helps Me, I Am Confident!
- Chasing the Dragon Out
- The Story of Pocahontas, Indian Princess
- Do It Yourself Kids Circus
- Tecumseh Biographies from American History
- James Monroe
- Lenin
- William Henry Harrison
- Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Margaret Bourke-White
- Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Anne of Green Gables Cookbook
- The Dog Who Wouldn't Be
- Sleepers
- Woof
- Jefferson
- Jackie
- Patti
- Woof!
- Survival
- J F K
- Biography Today, 1998
- The Boy Who Loves Toy Trains!!
Questions parents ask about biography & autobiography books
- What are the best biography & autobiography books for kids?
- HootRated catalogs 878 biography & autobiography children's books spanning picture books through Grade 12. Each is rated on reading level and content intensity. The picks above are sorted by quality signals — hook factor, discussion potential, and content appropriateness.
- Are biography & autobiography books appropriate for sensitive readers?
- 661 books (75%) are rated Gentle or Mild — safe for sensitive readers. 55 (6%) are rated Intense or Very Intense. Average intensity is 1.8/5. Filter by intensity badge to match your child's emotional readiness.
- What reading level are biography & autobiography books?
- Biography & Autobiography books in our catalog span picture books through Grade 12. The typical reading level lands around Grade 5. Reading level measures text difficulty — separate from content intensity, which measures emotional weight. The two often don't track together for gifted readers — the Gifted Kid Paradox.