This collection offers a diverse and engaging selection of case studies to consider the significance of autobiographies of childhood and youth to broader considerations of autobiographical story telling.

1. Telling Tales: Autobiographies of Childhood and Youth Kylie Cardell and Kate Douglas 2. Childhood and Ethnic Visibility in Gene Yang's American Born Chinese Rocío G. Davis 3. Trauma and Young Adult Literature: Representing adolescence and knowledge in David Small's Stitches: A Memoir Leigh Gilmore and Elizabeth Marshall 4. "Indecent Exposure? Margaux Fragoso and the Limits of Abuse Memoir" Kylie Cardell and Kate Douglas 5. Potential: Ariel Schrag Contests (Hetero-)Normative Girlhood Emma Maguire 6. Alice Pung's Growing up Asian in Australia: The Cultural Work of Anthologized Asian-Australian Narratives of Childhood Pamela Graham 7. "Reading Saved Me": Writing Autobiographically About Transformative Reading Experiences in Childhood Tully Barnett 8. Ante-Autobiography and the Archive of Childhood Claire Lynch 9. Autobiography and Play: "A Conversation with My 12 Year Old Self" Anna Poletti 10. " 'Who knows, will I ever see you again,' said the one-eyed duck." Reflections on a Soviet Childhood in Leelo Tungal's Life Writing Leena Kurvet-Käosaar