Remembered Childhoods

Focusing on first-person accounts that tell at least in part the remembered stories of childhood and youth this guide organizes more than 2800 titles in categories that reflect shared themes and characteristics. Long groups works into such chapters as The Traveled and the Captive: Adventurers Explorers and Warriors; Homes and Haunts: The Places and Cultures of Native Lands; and The Darker Side of Childhood; Outcasts Violence Abuse Poverty and Other Traumas. Keywords and occasional notes along with birth and death dates of the author accompany the entries offering further insights.