Books About Identity & Self-Discovery
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Stories about figuring out who you are — identity, self-acceptance, and growing up.
1,878 books
Who Was Jacqueline Kennedy?
Bonnie Bader, Who HQ
Young Abraham Lincoln
Theresa Morlock
A Thousand Never Evers
Shana Burg
A clatter of jars
Lisa Graff
A diamond in the desert
Kathryn Fitzmaurice
A year in the life of a complete and total genius
Stacey Matson
Africa is my home
Monica Edinger
Ahimsa
Supriya Kelkar
Albert Einstein
María Isabel Sánchez Vegara
Amina's voice
Hena Khan
Atlantis lost
T. A. Barron
Back in the saddle
Cathy Hapka
Beatle meets Destiny
Gabrielle Williams
Behind the scenes
Erin Falligant
Benjamin Franklin
Mary Pope Osborne
Carlos is gonna get it
Kevin Emerson
Caroline's comets
Emily Arnold McCully
Casualties of war
Chris Lynch
Chengli and the Silk Road Caravan
Hildi Kang
Child of the civil rights movement
Paula Young Shelton
Connect the stars
Marisa De los Santos
Cross my heart and hope to spy
Ally Carter
Curse of the Bane
Joseph Delaney
David Duval (Sports Superstars)
Anthony B. Cain
Diary of Sally Wister
Sarah Wister
Dodger and Me
Jordan Sonnenblick
EllRay Jakes and the beanstalk
Sally Warner
Extra credit
Andrew Clements
Falling over sideways
Jordan Sonnenblick
Finding Fortune
Delia Ray
Friends for life
Andrew Norriss
Furthermore
Tahereh Mafi
Games wizards play
Diane Duane
Golden Boy
Tara Sullivan
Hard Luck
Jeff Kinney
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
J. K. Rowling
Hawking's Hallway
Neal Shusterman
Henry Cicada's extraordinary Elktonium escapade
David Teague
Horton Halfpott, or, The fiendish mystery of Smugwick Manor, or, The loosening of M'Lady Luggertuck's corset
Tom Angleberger
How Tía Lola ended up starting over
Julia Alvarez
I don't know how the story ends
J. B. Cheaney
I love you, Michael Collins
Lauren Baratz-Logsted
Imperial Dreams
Rosemary Wells
In an Egyptian City (Child's Day)
Khaled Eldash
Island of Fire
Lisa McMann
James Madison
Stuart A. Kallen
James Monroe
Stuart A. Kallen
John Adams
Stuart A. Kallen
Keeper of the Lost Cities
Shannon Messenger
Left out
Tim Green
Legacy
Shannon Messenger
Let the Storm Break
Shannon Messenger
Light in the Storm
Karen Hesse
Little house in the Highlands
Melissa Wiley
Louis Pasteur
María Isabel Sánchez Vegara
Mae Jemison
Heather E. Schwartz
Margarito and the mystery of the Guardian Angel
Xavier Garza
Me and Miranda Mullaly
Jake Gerhardt
Mira in the present tense
Sita Brahmachari
Moonlight mile
Cathy Hapka
My brigadista year
Katherine Paterson
NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson
Heather E. Schwartz
Nelson Mandela
María Isabel Sánchez Vegara
Nooks & crannies
Jessica Lawson
Oddfellow's Orphanage
Emily Winfield Martin
Oggie Cooder #1 (Oggie Cooder)
Sarah Weeks
Oliver and the seawigs
Philip Reeve
On the road with Mallory
Laurie B. Friedman
Out of control
Sarah Alderson
Pandora Gets Jealous (Mythic Misadventures)
Carolyn Hennesy
Patrick Henry
Stuart A. Kallen
Picture the dead
Adele Griffin
Point guard
Mike Lupica
Premeditated Myrtle
Elizabeth C. Bunce
Race to the bottom of the sea
Lindsay Eagar
Raising Rufus
David Fulk
Red Butterfly
A.L. Sonnichsen
Return to Sender
Julia Alvarez
Revolution
Deborah Wiles
Ruby Redfort catch your death
Lauren Child
Sally Hemings
Frances E. Ruffin
Samurai
Christine Heppermann
School for sidekicks
Kelly McCullough
Serafina and the black cloak
Robert Beatty
Sharpshooter
Chris Lynch
Shield of Stars (The Shield, Sword, and Crown)
Hilari Bell
Simon Thorn and the viper's pit
Aimée Carter
Snowize & Snitch
Karen Briner
Someone Named Eva
Joan M. Wolf
Somewhere among
Annie Donwerth-Chikamatsu
Sports great Charles Barkley
Glen Macnow
Sports great Shaquille O'Neal
Michael John Sullivan
Spy Camp
Stuart Gibbs
Spy school
Stuart Gibbs
Starry River of the Sky
Grace Lin
Steering Toward Normal
Rebecca Petruck
Susan B. Anthony (Breaking Barriers)
Jill C. Wheeler
Sweet home Alaska
Carole Estby Dagg
Switch
Ingrid Law
Taran Wanderer (The Chronicles of Prydain)
Lloyd Alexander