Hodgman, A: How to Die of Embarrassment Every Day

Humorous and humiliating memories of an awkward childhood, sprinkled with hilarious family photographs and other memorabilia, from the author of The House of a Million Pets . Ann Hodgman is a funny lady. In How to Die of Embarrassment Every Day , she explains how she got that way. But the book only goes up through sixth grade. After that, her life became so embarrassing that writing it down would have caused the pages to burst into flames.