- My life in dog years, Gary Paulsen
- Bad boy, a memoir, by Walter Dean Myers
- A New England love story, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Sophia Peabody, by LouAnn Gaeddert. --
- Silk parachute, John McPhee
- American boy, the adventures of Mark Twain, written and illustrated by Don Brown
- Travels with Charley, in search of America, John Steinbeck
- Louisa May Alcott, her girlhood diary, edited, compiled and with an introduction and narrative by Cary Ryan ; illustrated by Mark Graham
- Sing a song of tuna fish, a memoir of my fifth-grade year, Esmé Raji Codell ; illustrations by LeUyen Pham
- The beet fields, memories of a sixteenth summer, Gary Paulsen
- Zora Neale Hurston, Harlem renaissance writer, Katie Marsico
- Looking back, a book of memories, Lois Lowry
- A girl from Yamhill, a memoir, Beverly Cleary
- I was a teenage professional wrestler, by Ted Lewin ; illustrated with photographs & sketches, and paintings by the author
- Laura Ingalls Wilder, storyteller of the Prairie, Ginger Wadsworth
- Walking with Henry, based on the life and works of Henry David Thoreau, by Thomas Locker
- Planting stories, the life of librarian and storyteller Pura Belpré, words by Anika Aldamuy Denise ; illustrations by Paola Escobar
- Extraordinary magic, the storytelling life of Virginia Hamilton, poems and pictures by Nina Crews
- Maya Angelou, Pamela Loos ; introduction by James Scott Brady
- Jack London, Jan Gleiter and Kathleen Thompson ; illustrated by Francis Balistreri
- Christopher Paul Curtis, Ann G. Gaines
- Ernest Hemingway, the life and the legend, Richard B. Lyttle ; illustrated with photographs
- Small steps, the year I got polio, by Peg Kehret
- E.B. White, the elements of a writer, by Janice Tingum
- Flora and Tiger, 19 very short stories from my life, Eric Carle
- Rebel in the rye, IFC Films ; Black Label Media ; Bloom ; written and directed by Danny Strong ; produced by Bruce Cohen, Jason Shuman, Danny Strong, Molly Smith, Thad Luckinbill, Trent Luckinbill ; a Black Label Media, West Madison Entertainment, Bloom presentation ; a Bruce Cohen, Jason Shuman, Villa Stanley production ; a Danny Strong film
- Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Beecher preachers, Jean Fritz
- Jack London, written by John Powell
- Who is R.L. Stine?, by M.D. Payne ; illustrated by Jake Murray
- Louisa May, the world and works of Louisa May Alcott, Norma Johnston
- Frances Hodgson Burnett, author of The secret garden, by Carol Greene
- Stephen Crane, by Mark Sufrin
- Stephen King, Amy and Marjorie Keyishian
- The princess diarist, Carrie Fisher
- Edgar Allan Poe, Suzanne LeVert ; [introductory essay by Vito Perrone]
- Margaret Wise Brown, by Carol Greene
- To the young writer, nine writers talk about their craft, Hank Nuwer
- The days before now, an autobiographical note, by Margaret Wise Brown ; adapted by John W. Blos ; illustrated by Thomas B. Allen
- My father's summers, a daughter's memoir, Kathi Appelt
- Oh, the places he went, a story about Dr. Seuss--Theodore Seuss Geisel, by Maryann N. Weidt ; illustrations by Kerry Maguire
- Gertrude Chandler Warner and the Boxcar children, written by Mary Ellen Ellsworth ; illustrated by Marie DeJohn
- Big machines, the story of Virginia Lee Burton, by Sherri Duskey Rinker ; illustrated by John Rocco
- Maya Angelou, journey of the heart, Jayne Pettit
- Knots in my yo-yo string, the autobiography of a kid, by Jerry Spinelli
- Hemingway's guns, the sporting arms of Ernest Hemingway, by Silvio Calabi, Roger Sanger, and Steve Helsley
- The wall, growing up behind the Iron Curtain, Peter Sís
- Edgar Allan Poe., buried alive, a Spy Pond Productions film in association with the Center for Independent Documentary and Thirteen Productions LLC's American Masters for WNET ; written and directed by Eric Stange ; produced by Jennifer Pearce, Widescreen
- Laura Ingalls Wilder, by Ginger Wadsworth ; illustrations by Shelly O. Haas
- Imagine that!, how Dr. Seuss wrote The cat in the hat, by Judy Sierra ; illustrated by Kevin Hawkes
- On my way, written and illustrated by Tomie dePaola
- The lost prince, a search for Pat Conroy, Michael Mewshaw