One page memoir examples

Right now, I’m truly excited about memoir in middle grade. Authors look back at their past and often focus on a particularly challenging event that greatly affected them during their elementary school or middle school years.

This could be a move from one country to another or it could be dealing with a chronic disease. Other authors chronicle something more everyday, such as getting braces and feeling like an outcast. Whatever the focus, writers usually chronicle an area of great vulnerability.

Memoirs for 8th graders

The memoirist Ayelet Waldman exhorts writers to express what feels raw and true. She calls them “ugly truths.” I’d call the following middle grade memoirs all beautiful because they tackle issues that will truly inspire young readers with their authenticity and empathy.

Please note these are all traditional prose memoirs published in the past five years. There are also many wonderful middle grade novels-in-verse and graphic novels. Howeve