Can you name some good books i can read based on true stories or events?

Question: Can you name some good books i can read based on true stories or events!?
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Murder in Mayberry:

This one is about a man who murdered his grandmother and left her in the basement!. Then he went on the run to Mexico and they finally caught him about a year later!. Sadly, this murder happened in my home town!.

And that book about the girls who were in that crash and for the longest time they thought she was one girl, but she was really the other!. So interesting but sad!. I don't remember the title, it just came out a few months ago though!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

"Night" by Elie Wiesel!. This is a true story of how the author and his family were uprooted from their home in Sighet and transported to Auschwitz-Bierkenau death camp!.

"Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston!. This is almost like "Night" as it takes place in WWII except this is a story of a Japanese American who was uprooted from her home in Los Angeles and lived for 3 years in Manzanar in eastern California!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Mommie Dearest, A child called It (and the two sequels he wrote after that one) are about child abuse!. There's also many "true crime" books that are really good!. I like this genre of books as well, and was happy to find my local library has a section dedicated to true crime stories!. You should find lots to choose from at the library!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

"Uprising" is an great book!. This deftly crafted historical novel unfolds dramatically with an absorbing story and well-drawn characters who readily evoke empathy and compassion!. Haddix has masterfully melded in-depth information about the history of immigration, the struggle for women's rights, the beginnings of the organized labor movement, and the horrific Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in 1911 within a narrative that will simultaneously engross and educate its readers!. The story is told from the alternating perspectives of Bella, an Italian immigrant teen; Yetta, a Russian Jewish immigrant; and Jane, the daughter of an upper-class American businessman!. Yetta is opinionated and aware of how immigrants, especially women, are mistreated!. She is outspoken and ready to work toward improving conditions!. Bella is a new immigrant and easily taken advantage of!. She only wants to earn money to send home so the rest of her family can join her in America!. Though wealthy, Jane is influenced by college girls who are starting to work for women's rights!. The three girls meet during the strike at the Triangle factory!. Jane bravely leaves home when she learns that her father was involved in trying to break the strike!. This absorbing and informative read is a wonderful companion to Mary Jane Auch's Ashes of Roses!. Amazing book!.

Another great book is "A Child Called It"!. David J!. Pelzer's mother, Catherine Roerva, was, he writes in this ghastly, fascinating memoir, a devoted den mother to the Cub Scouts in her care, and somewhat nurturant to her children--but not to David, whom she referred to as "an It!." This book is a brief, horrifying account of the bizarre tortures she inflicted on him, told from the point of view of the author as a young boy being starved, stabbed, smashed face-first into mirrors, forced to eat the contents of his sibling's diapers and a spoonful of ammonia, and burned over a gas stove by a maniacal, alcoholic mom!. Sometimes she claimed he had violated some rule--no walking on the grass at school!--but mostly it was pure sadism!. Inexplicably, his father didn't protect him; only an alert schoolteacher saved David!. One wants to learn more about his ordeal and its aftermath, and now he's written a sequel, The Lost Boy, detailing his life in the foster-care system!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

anything by Farley Mowat - especially his autobiography "Born Naked", a wonderful book by a man named Fynn (no last name) called "Mister God, This is Anna", "Bridge Across Forever" by Richard Bach, Trevanian's autobiography "The Crazy Ladies of Pearl Street"!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

"Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer is an excellent true story of a doomed expedition to climb Mt!. Everest!.!.!. Highly recommended!Www@QuestionHome@Com

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