Real+Life+Stories

Kaffir Boy Child called It series - Lost Boy, Man named Dave, Privilege of Youth Sickened:true story of a lost childhood Sickened: memoir of a munchausen by proxy childhood The Year We Disappeared: A Father-Daughter Memoir by Cylin Busby & John Busby The Burn Journals by Brent Runyon Chasing Lincoln's Killer by James Swanson Surfer Girl by Bethany Hamilton ** recommended several times Helen Keller--she survived and has a great story Sylvia Plath -The Bell Jar--a classic! The Tender Bar Tatum O'Neal's autobiography Miley Cyrus--Miles To Go Wayne : an abused child's story of courage, survival, and hope By Wayne Theodore with Leslie Alan Horvitz. Julie and Julia: A year of Cooking Dangerously Who killed my daughter? by Lois Duncan Strange Piece of Paradise by Terri Jentz Ana's Story by Jenna Bush Walking Free: the Nellie Zimmerman Story Ditchdigger's Daughters: A Black Family's Astonishing Success Story Della Raye: a Girl Who Grew Up in Hill and Emerged Whole Chinese Cinderella: the True Story of an Unwanted Daughter Appetite for Life: the Biography of Julia Child Nightingales: the Extraordinary Upbringing and Curious Life of Miss Florence Nightingale Life Family: Growing up in Other People's Houses: A memoir Three little words by Ashley Rhodes-Courter Kabul Beauty School Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls Wasted by Hornbacher Three cups of Tea Katie.com by Katherine Tarbox Please stop laughing at me by Blanco I know why the caged bird sings by Maya Angelou
 * recommended several times

Here are some recommendations of fiction authors and titles: Lurlene McDaniel Ellen Hopkins Sarah Dessen Jodi Piccoult First Part Last by Angela Johnson Breathing Underwater Scribbler of Dreams Unwind Tears of Tiger and Forged by Fire both by Draper Speak-Anderson The Rules of Survival-Werlin Go Ask Alice