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John Coy

“While every family’s arrival story is distinct, I wanted to focus on the overarching connections between immigrants—and between us all.” 

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John David Anderson

“If you only listen to what others say, you’ll never hear yourself think,”
― John David Anderson, Posted

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Elizabeth Partridge

John Lennon: All I Want Is the Truth

Genre:
Biography
Age Level:
YA

This biography dives into Lennon’s life from the night he was born in 1940 during a World War II air raid on Liverpool, deftly taking us through his turbulent childhood and his rebellious rock’n’roll teens to his celebrated life writing, recording, and performing music with the Beatles. She sheds light on the years after the Beatles, with Yoko Ono, as he struggled to make sense of his own artistic life.