Unfortunately, by the time many stories are written, so many of the details have faded and the author must painfully relive the experience to write the story in detail. …

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*Note: The two books in the lowest levels are not part of the Silver Edition revision. 1. A uniform unit structure runs across all six books in the edition, making it easy for students to move seamlessly from one level to the next.

There are moments of humility and wondrous humor, which are balanced with the author’s innate sensuality and satiric way of moving through the world. A new film adaptation based the novel has Judi Dench and Sophie Cookson playing the titular Red Joan through different eras of her life and is in theaters now. Paperback $21.75 $ 21. Spilled Milk Diving into the pain of those left behind when a loved one takes their own life. In the midst of their parents' deceitful divorce, two teenage girls vanish without a trace.

With the Nazi invasion and occupation of Holland, Corrie ten Boom and her family became leaders in the Dutch Underground.

She also explores the misunderstanding of friends and family, as they too struggle to understand. Find meaning in it and move forward with renewed purpose. Your email address will not be published. Now provides over 2.5 billion dollars of micro-loans to more than two million families in rural Bangladesh.

Long Walk To Freedom: The Autobiography Of Nelson Mandela by Nelson Mandela, 8. If you love reading thrilling novels then you can’t go past the best true story books in our list.

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The True Stories series has been going strong ever since. Luckily, Loving Frank gives Mamah control of her own story, which is as much about her struggles as a woman craving independence in the early 1900s as it is about her romance with Frank Lloyd Wright. Classics like The Shining (inspired by Stephen King’s solitary stay at an apparently haunted hotel) and Peter Benchley’s Jaws (sparked in part by a 1964 news story of a Great White shark being captured off the coast of Montauk) are just two famous examples of novels based on true stories that became tantalizing narratives. Buying the best true story books involves lots of research and a quick flick through the pages to make sure you connect with the story being told. The British civil servant provided Russian intelligence with private information before retiring and going into hiding. She walks us through her own grief process, and hope that yes, it does eventually get better.

Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank’s remarkable diary has since become a world classic.

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The author, who left the church at 18, said she felt compelled to write the novel after hearing about those in a Bolivia Manitoba colony who had been repeatedly anesthetized and sexually assaulted, only to be told by the perpetrators they were hysterical. Finally, use the content and the topic of the story to engage in discussion and writing tasks, from tightly structured to more open-ended. Etched in Sand Every story in the series has been recorded and made available online for students or teachers to download. In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers.