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Survivors of Traumatic Childhood
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	The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls Buy new: $8.97 / Used from: $2.99
	Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood by Julie Gregory Buy used from: $0.94 Her mother worked her to death, encouraged her illnesses, and didn't feed her, so that she could gain the attention she needed.
	A Child Called "It": One Child's Courage to Survive by Dave Pelzer Buy new: $8.60 / Used from: $0.01 This boy was mentally and physically abused by his mother until the school finally alerted the authorities. Read his other two books for the continuing story of his life.
	A Brother's Journey: Surviving a Childhood of Abuse by Richard B. Pelzer Buy new: $9.88 / Used from: $6.45 This is written by the brother of Dave Pelzer - he ended up taking Dave's place at home when Dave was removed to foster care.
	Running with Scissors: A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs Buy used from: $0.01
	The Flamboya Tree: Memories of a Family's War-time Courage by Clara Olink Kelly Buy used from: $0.01 Growing up in a Japanese POW camp.
	Children of the Flames: Dr. Josef Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitz by Lucette Matalon Lagnado Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $4.50 Being a twin might have been a bit of an advantage in that they were not gassed immediately. However, the doctor performed unscientific "experiments" on these children instead. This is their story and what happened to them after liberation.
	Sybil: The true and extraordinary story of a woman possessed by sixteen separate personalities by Flora Rheta Schreiber Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01
	The Next Better Place: A Father and Son on the Road by Michael C. Keith Ph.D. Buy new: $23.95 / Used from: $0.24 This kid's father was an irresponsible drunk bum, but there was still love between them. They spent their time scraping together money for another bus ticket, not bathing, not eating and getting in trouble.
	Playground: A Childhood Lost Inside the Playboy Mansion by Jennifer Saginor Buy new: $11.19 / Used from: $0.88 Her father was Hugh Hefner's personal physician. When he gained custody of her, she spent a lot of time at the Playboy Mansion. Her childhood was filled with drugs, alcohol, drama, sex and money.
	Jesus Land: A Memoir by Julia Scheeres Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.01
	Night (Oprah's Book Club) by Elie Wiesel Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $1.00 Surviving the holocaust.
	Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found by Jennifer Lauck Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $0.01
	Still Waters by Jennifer Lauck Buy used from: $3.10
	Like Family: Growing Up in Other People's Houses: A Memoir by Paula McLain Buy new: $17.96 / Used from: $0.01
	Gerald's Game (Signet) by Stephen King Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 It's amazing how those repressed memories can spring up and surprise you later in life.
	The Color of Love: A Mother's Choice in the Jim Crow South by Gene Cheek Buy used from: $0.01 Growing up in poverty with an alcoholic and abusive father, this boy was taken from his mother when she fell in love with a decent and kind black man.
	The Liars' Club: A Memoir by Mary Karr Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $5.99
	Falling Leaves: The Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.01
	When Rabbit Howls by Truddi Chase Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $2.90
	Why I Jumped: My True Story of Postpartum Depression, Dramatic Rescue & Return to Hope by Tina Zahn Buy new: $15.99 / Used from: $0.01
	The Shooting: A Memoir by Kemp Powers Buy new: $22.00 / Used from: $0.01
	There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in The Other America by Alex Kotlowitz Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.70
	My Lobotomy by Howard Dully Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $1.94
	Sweet Caroline: Last Child of Camelot by Christopher Andersen Buy used from: $0.25
	All the Fishes Come Home to Roost: An American Misfit in India by Rachel Manija Brown Buy new: $18.95 / Used from: $1.50 Forced by her parents to move with them to an ashram in India.
	Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's by John Elder Robison Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $5.19
	Fourteen: Growing Up Alone In A Crowd by Stephen Zanichkowsky Buy new: $15.95 / Used from: $0.01
	Burned Alive: A Survivor of an "Honor Killing" Speaks Out by Souad Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $4.00
	Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography--The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa by Mark Mathabane Buy new: $10.36 / Used from: $0.01
	Not the Thing I Was: Thirteen Years at Bruno Bettelheim's Orthogenic School by Stephen Eliot Buy used from: $1.67
	Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution [RED SCARF GIRL] Buy used from: $14.35 Surviving persecution in revolutionary China.
	All Souls: A Family Story from Southie by Michael Patrick MacDonald Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $1.49 A family decimated by tragedy.
	Driving with Dead People by Monica Holloway Buy new: $9.20 / Used from: $4.60 Basically abandoned by her parents in her teens, the author finds herself coming to terms with childhood abuse and recovered memories as an adult.
	Stevie Buy new: $9.49 / Used from: $4.69
	Mockingbird Don't Sing Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $10.32
	Aging Out Buy new: $15.49 / Used from: $35.79 Follows three kids aging out of the foster care system.
	One Punk Under God: The Prodigal Son Of Jim And Tammy Fae Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $8.74 Being the son of Jim and Tammy Fae Bakker meant he didn't get to spend a lot of time with his parents. When the scandal hit, he took a lot of the fallout and ended up turning to drugs. Now he's trying to rebuild his life, start his own church, avoid hypocrisy and forge some sort of relationship with his parents.
	American Experience - Eleanor Roosevelt Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $12.99 Look at all she was able to achieve, even with a cruel and distant mother and an unstable father.
	The Children of Chabannes Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $11.54

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