(Part 2) Best teen & young adult biographies according to redditors

For more information on Benedict Arnold and his whole struggle between war hero and national traitor, I highly recommend "The Notorious Benedict Arnold" by Steve Sheinkin.

Isn’t there a book about the boy?

Edit; yep

And a movie; “The Boy who Harnessed the Wind”

Book about him: https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Brother-Jonathan-Daniels-Sacrifice/dp/162979094X

Heard the authors talk about the research they did in his hometown. Pretty interesting.

I am cutting and pasting from a HelloGiggles interview i did because this is not a short list:

EG: I love Gail Collins. She’s a New York Times journalist. She wrote a book called America’s Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines. It’s the feminist history book you never had. It’s a book you cannot put down. It’s so jam packed with information, and you just can’t believe you don’t know this stuff. She has a whole thing about how pioneer women basically built San Francisco. Because when the gold rush happened, there was no one to cook for the men. So women would come out, set up shop, and make tons of money. They were business owners and had autonomy and control of their finances for the first time. Stuff like that. I mean, Bear Grylls would look like Tom Brokaw compared to these pioneer women. That’s not even a good analogy. But these women would like, crawl up mountains while giving birth. Their skirts would catch on fire all the time. The shit that they went through was insane. So you’re reading this, and [Collins is] just giving you all of it. It’s the most fascinating book I’ve ever read.

Of course, all of Roxane Gay’s books. She’s necessary reading. I just read In Her Words, the Eleanor Roosevelt book. That was uplifting, and also so sad to see this woman with this knowledge and access to power whom, if she had been given the chance…god, the things she could have done. You should read Susan Faludi’s Backlash. That’s super necessary feminist reading. I also like this book called White Trash. It’s about America’s history of poverty and how it explains a lot of what’s happening today. But because it’s written by a woman — it’s written by Nancy Isenberg — it has a feminist slant to it. It’s fantastic.

Oh, and Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World by Penelope Bagieu. It’s a graphic novel of incredible women. It’s gorgeous and informative and great. And it’s a great book for a teen, or an adult who likes graphic novels like me. Also Bitch Planet. It’s a graphic novel that’s The Handmaid’s Tale of space. That’s great. And of course, The Handmaid’s Tale. Read Margaret Atwood. And not just The Handmaid’s Tale. She’s written tons of other books that are thematically similar and just as depressing.

Also, Samantha Irby. Her books…I don’t know what to say about her books. I have a really loud laugh, and when something tickles me and gets me really hard, I laugh really loudly. And I do it like, every other page with her.

I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up For Education and Changed the World

There is a young readers edition available. My daughter read it last year (she was 10 years old/5th grade) and liked it.

If interested, there's a little more info on Claudette Colvin here. I posted it in BHP a few months back. It's an interview from NPR that came out when someone was writing a book on her in 2009.

I really like Go Ask Alice.

It really provides a lot of insight for people who have been crippled by uncontrollable drug use. Probably not the best ever non-fiction, but my personal favorite.

It's definitely true, there has since been a book published, which Gaby Rodriguez wrote herself. They also adapted her story into a Lifetime movie.

Edit: this post sounds a lot more hostile and dismissive than I meant it to. I really just think you posted this in the wrong place. Ain't nothing wrong with celebrating Archimedes' birthday.

Let me get this straight. You came to the the /r/math subreddit, the home of math discussion on reddit, and you posted something incorrect about the history of math. When someone pointed it out, your response was to say that people should "chill out and go with" pop culture (or what you say pop culture believes about math history). Right?

If you think this is pedantry, and you don't like it, and you're rather be held to the standards of pop culture rather than the standards of people who are interested in math, /r/math isn't the audience you're looking for.

Edit: the only book I could find that's premised on the idea that Archimedes is the father of mathematics is this, a textbook/teaching resource intended for grades 6-10.

Are you referencing the paperback they published? (https://www.amazon.com/Seventeen-Real-Girls-Real-Life-Stories/dp/1588166481/ref=nodl_)

That was released in June of 2007. Was there another article the magazine ran in ‘04?

'In the Mouth of the Wolf' by Rose Zar maybe? https://www.amazon.com/Mouth-Wolf-Rose-Zar/dp/0827603827

Grant Wood spent a lot of time as a painting instructor during the Great Depression in and around his home town. From what I gather from your quick post, she might very well have taken actual painting lessons from him. He was known for giving away paintings to students. You might be interested in this book for a little family history. Cool! Do you still live in the Midwest?

Feels bit weird to be here...

1. ~1.6 million years ago to see Homo erectus. I really love human evolution and would love to meet the species that was so critical in us becoming who we are today.
   
   
2. 1160 to visit with Eleanor of Aquitaine in England. Read a book on her when I was a kid, I've always wondered what she was really like.
   
   
3. 320 million years ago to see the carboniferous period

http://www.amazon.com/Claudette-Colvin-Toward-Justice-Addams/dp/0374313229

ahh! I'm sorry. Here are the two books and some general tips.

• Elementary Drum Method-Roy Burns This book will teach you basic theory, how to read rhythm, and some good basic snare practice. I use it whenever I am teaching rhythm to music students either new percussionists, or brass/woodwind/ etc players that don't know rhythm well.
  
  
• Ultimate Realistic Rock-Carmen Appice This book will teach you how to play drum set. If you work your way through this book you can become a pretty decent drum player. Very well organized and thought through.
  
  
• Check out [Vic Firth's 40 Essential Drum Rudiments] (http://www.vicfirth.com/education/rudiments.php). Learn them. These are super helpful and the site is great.
  
  
• Play along with other tracks. What I did was grab some cheap earbud headphones, then I bought some nice Vic Firth isolation head phones (good for you to wear while practicing anyway). I'd listen to a song a few times, work out the basic rhythm, then keep the earphones in playing the song, the isolation head phones over them, and play along to the track. If you have huge speakers you can also just black a track and play along with it. Some sites have drum track tabs you can look up, sometimes you can figure out the beat by ear, or you can buy books. I own RHCP Stadium Arcadium for drums. Some good tracks to start out with if you're new are Seven Nation Army by the White Stripes, Come As you Are by Nirvanna, and almost any Beatles track. Play you're way through albums. I can give you more suggestions if you'd like. Even if you aren't matching the drummer perfectly, you'll get better by playing with tracks.
  
  
• Buy a metronome. Seriously. You can get a cheap one from Guitar Center or online, it doesn't need to be fancy, it just needs to keep a beat as you begin to learn percussion. Drummers who don't practice with metronomes aren't going to be very talented.
  
  
• Start slow. If you can play a beat slow, you can play it fast. But there are some people who can play rhythms fast, but not slow. Better to do it slow and correct, than fast and incorrect.
  
  
• If you can't play a rhythm 3 times in a row looping it (as in without stopping or breaking), you can't play it. You need repetition and looping.
  
  
• learn to hold stick properly and play with your wrists, not your whole arm.
  
  I can offer more tips about playing set, snare, mallet instruments, hand drums, buying a set, reading music etc. Send me a PM.
  
  Sorry this took so long, I had my drum books stashed away (recently moved) and I needed to remember the names.
  
  edit: formatting
  
  

Yay for Roald Dahl!

His children's books are fantastic, of course, but his autobiography is also extremely interesting. Check out Going Solo for some awesome WWII stories.

To answer your question, I am not interested in killing thousands of innocent North Koreans, many of whom are good people, but rather the people who are enslaving, killing and torturing them, often for decades while wiping out whole family lines. I hope you aren't too sympathetic towards kim and the cabal surrounding the kims who perpetuate this mass and inane human slaughter but if you are in favor of it, not much else needs to be said. The problem is there are too many pieces of old artillary pointed towards Seoul and they can't all be neutralized at once. I would like for the suffering to stop for the NK people though if it ever becomes possible from an international standpoint. If you would like to learn more about what the North Korean people go through I highly recommend you read;

https://www.amazon.com/Escape-Camp-14-Remarkable-Odyssey/dp/0143122916

https://www.amazon.com/Every-Falling-Star-Survived-Escaped/dp/1419721321/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1492036877&sr=1-1&keywords=star+north+korea

Also you might like watching this;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyqUw0WYwoc

and to lighten up the mood after;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0TYCEXmi90

edit: fixed derpy stuff, also added kim himself into it because he is responsible as are his inner circle and the military. also added some links to books i've read that give perspective.

No, they are just quite strict - bordering on abusive.

There is even a sub about these places. r/troubledteens

There are also other books on Amazon about them, I just started this one about a series of camps back in the 80s called "Straight, Inc".

https://www.amazon.com/Dead-Inside-True-Story/dp/1492635731/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8

Symphony For The City of The Dead https://www.amazon.com/Symphony-City-Dead-Shostakovich-Leningrad/dp/1531863183 An unbelievably enjoyable read on the life and works of Shosty.

Buy the book they are from: "What the world eats" but D'Alusio/Menzel.. Brilliant.