Stories of Resilience in Childhood

What builds resilience in children? Originally published in 1997, this book is an effort to understand better what contributes to a child's "success" and "resilience". The source of information will be autobiographies of childhoods - autobiographical stories written by adults remembering their difficult childhoods.

Daniel D. Challender

1. Resilience, Autobiography, and Children 2. When a Whole Village Raises a Child: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 3. Desperate to be The All-American Boy: This Boy's Life 4. Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts: The Woman Warrior 5. The Education and Mis-Education of "Rich-heard Road-ree-guess": Hunger of Memory 6. Big Brother, Little Brother: Brothers and Keepers 7. Resilience or Silence 8. Selected Bibliography 9. Index