Kids of Kabul: Living Bravely Through a Never-Ending War

8 best books like Kids of Kabul: Living Bravely Through a Never-Ending War (Deborah Ellis): Autobiography of a Face, Captive: A Mother's Crusade to Save Her Daughter from the Terrifying Cult Nxivm, Suicide Notes, The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees, Please Don't Kill the Freshman, 703: How I Lost More Than a Quarter Ton and Gained a Life, Define "Normal", By Chance Alone: A Remarkable True Story of Courage and Survival at Auschwitz

Autobiography of a Face

Author	Lucy Grealy
ISBN	0060569662

I spent five years of my life being treated for cancer, but since then I've spent fifteen years being treated for nothing other than looking different from everyone else. It was the pain from that, from feeling ugly, that I always viewed as the great tragedy of my life. The fact that I had cancer seemed minor...

Captive: A Mother's Crusade to Save Her Daughter from the Terrifying Cult Nxivm

Author	Catherine Oxenberg
ISBN	1508260176

Now updated with a new afterword, Captive is an emotional, ripped-from-the-headlines exposé that lays bare the secretive cult that shocked the world—for fans of Leah Remini’s Troublemaker and Lawrence Wright’s Going Clear.

I am a mother whose child is being abused and exploited....

Suicide Notes

Author	Michael Thomas Ford
ISBN	0060737557

I'm not crazy. I don't see what the big deal is about what happened. But apparently someone does think it's a big deal because here I am. I bet it was my mother. She always overreacts. Fifteen-year-old Jeff wakes up on New Year's Day to find himself in the hospital. Make that the psychiatric ward. With...

The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees

Author	Don Brown
ISBN	1328810151

In the tradition of Don Brown’s critically acclaimed, full-color nonfiction graphic novels The Great American Dust Bowl and Sibert Honor winning Drowned City, The Unwanted is an important, timely, and eye-opening exploration of the ongoing Syrian refugee crisis, exposing the harsh realities...

Please Don't Kill the Freshman

Author	Zoe Trope
ISBN	0060529369

I wrote a story about you. Well, sort of, see, it's mostly about me. Well, entirely about me, but here's the catch: I'm you. No, really, I mean it. Not like that transcendentalism stuff we're learning in English class, but really, truly, I'm you. I know what it feels like when your heart beats so hard against...

703: How I Lost More Than a Quarter Ton and Gained a Life

Author	Nancy Makin
ISBN	0525951377

A moving, funny, tongue-in-cheek, and deadly serious story about how one woman lost and found herself by going online.

Nancy Makin weighed an astounding 703 pounds in May 2000. She was forty-five years old and suffered from diabetes and other obesity-related maladies. Thanks in equal...

Define "Normal"

Author	Julie Anne Peters
ISBN	0316734896

I was in the mood for something teenage and angsty, and this fit the bill. The story itself is more morality play than a realistic plot, but the characters are relatable and deep and introspective. They have dark secrets and insecurities and ways of rebelling that don't involve sex/drugs/cutting or...

By Chance Alone: A Remarkable True Story of Courage and Survival at Auschwitz

Author	Max Eisen
ISBN	1443449288

In the tradition of Elie Wiesel’s Night and Primo Levi’s Survival in Auschwitz comes a new memoir by Canadian survivor

More than 70 years after the Nazi camps were liberated by the Allies, a new Canadian Holocaust memoir details the rural Hungarian deportations to Auschwitz-Birkenau,...