This study examines early experiences of literacy described by unaccompanied minors from Afghanistan who are now following a general program of studies at a college of further education (folkhögskola) in Sweden. Their studies are conducted at a secondary and upper secondary school level. All of the participants are subject to the Swedish legislation applying to residence permission and participation in upper secondary education The experiences of literacy taken up here are reader biografies comprising picture collage and short text passages. The analysis is based on the biografies of 12 participants, illustrating various activities experienced during their respective childhoods, some of which are related to literacy, others not. The activities are presented in the form of illustrations and text along a timeline.  In the results section, the experiences described in the reader biografies are presented in terms of four categories: literacy and education, multimodal literacy and literacy mediating related to the theoretical background of this study.