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Across Reference & Collections, Survival, True Crime, and Biographies & Memoirs — 24 books that belong on the same shelf as A Child Called ‘It&#8217 by David J. Pelzer.

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My Time to Stand A Memoir — Gypsy-Rose Blanchard

My Time to Stand A Memoir

Gypsy-Rose Blanchard

Themes: Survival • True Crime • Biographies & Memoirs

A Light in the Dark Surviving More Than Ted Bundy — Kathy Kleiner Rubin

A Light in the Dark Surviving More Than Ted Bundy

Kathy Kleiner Rubin

Themes: Survival • True Crime • Biographies & Memoirs

The Long Way Home — Justin Sand

The Long Way Home

Themes: Survival • True Crime • Biographies & Memoirs

The Menendez Murders, Updated Edition The Shocking Untold Story of the Menendez Family and the Killings that Stunned the Nation — Robert Rand

The Menendez Murders, Updated Edition The Shocking Untold Story of the Menendez Family and the Killings that Stunned the Nation

Themes: Survival • True Crime • Biographies & Memoirs

Save Our Souls The True Story of a Castaway Family, Treachery, and Murder — Matthew Pearl

Save Our Souls The True Story of a Castaway Family, Treachery, and Murder

Themes: Survival • True Crime • Biographies & Memoirs

Off the Deep End Jerry and Becki Falwell and the Collapse of an Evangelical Dynasty — Giancarlo Granda

Off the Deep End Jerry and Becki Falwell and the Collapse of an Evangelical Dynasty

Giancarlo Granda

Themes: Survival • True Crime

American Cops True Stories from the Front Line — James Patterson

American Cops True Stories from the Front Line

James Patterson

Themes: Survival • True Crime

The Forgotten Child The Powerful True Story of a Boy Abandoned as a Baby and Left to Die — Richard Gallear

The Forgotten Child The Powerful True Story of a Boy Abandoned as a Baby and Left to Die

Richard Gallear

Themes: Survival • True Crime

Silenced No More Surviving My Journey to Hell and Back — Sarah Ransome

Silenced No More Surviving My Journey to Hell and Back

Themes: Survival • True Crime

Karen A Brother Remembers — Kelsey Grammer

Karen A Brother Remembers

Themes: Survival • True Crime

Stolen Innocence My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs — Elissa Wall

Stolen Innocence My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs

Themes: Survival • True Crime

Lost in the Valley of Death A Story of Obsession and Danger in the Himalayas — Harley Rustad

Lost in the Valley of Death A Story of Obsession and Danger in the Himalayas

Themes: Survival • True Crime

Surviving Dirty John My True Story of Love, Lies, and Murder — Debra Newell

Surviving Dirty John My True Story of Love, Lies, and Murder

Themes: Survival • True Crime

The Pale-faced Lie A True Story — David Crow

The Pale-faced Lie A True Story

Themes: Survival • True Crime

Chasing Justice My Story of Freeing Myself After Two Decades on Death Row for a Crime I Didn’t Commit — Kerry Max Cook

Chasing Justice My Story of Freeing Myself After Two Decades on Death Row for a Crime I Didn’t Commit

Themes: Survival • True Crime

The Survivor How I Made It Through Six Concentration Camps and Became a Nazi Hunter — Josef Lewkowicz

The Survivor How I Made It Through Six Concentration Camps and Became a Nazi Hunter

Josef Lewkowicz

Themes: Survival • True Crime

No Beast So Fierce The Terrifying True Story of the Champawat Tiger, the Deadliest Animal in History — Dane Huckelbridge

No Beast So Fierce The Terrifying True Story of the Champawat Tiger, the Deadliest Animal in History

Dane Huckelbridge

Themes: Survival • True Crime

Against Her Will Groomed, Trapped and Abused. This Is My True Story of Survival — Sophie Crockett

Against Her Will Groomed, Trapped and Abused. This Is My True Story of Survival

Sophie Crockett

Themes: Survival • True Crime

Código Cattleya Yo soy el avatar, el eslabón perdido

Marián de la Fuente

Themes: Survival • True Crime

My Walk Through Shame — Sifelani Masamba

My Walk Through Shame

Sifelani Masamba

Themes: Survival • Biographies & Memoirs

My Name Means Fire A Memoir — Atash Yaghmaian

My Name Means Fire A Memoir

Atash Yaghmaian

Themes: Survival • Biographies & Memoirs

Welcome To Katie’s Brain A Brain Cancer Survivor’s Story — Katie Kaiser Smith

Welcome To Katie’s Brain A Brain Cancer Survivor’s Story

Katie Kaiser Smith

Themes: Survival • Biographies & Memoirs

Facing Challenges: A Warrior’s Story of Overcoming — Lesvi Ferrel

Facing Challenges: A Warrior’s Story of Overcoming

Themes: Survival • Biographies & Memoirs

There Was Night and There Was Morning A Memoir of Trauma and Redemption — Sara Sherbill

There Was Night and There Was Morning A Memoir of Trauma and Redemption

Themes: Survival • Biographies & Memoirs

If A Child Called ‘It&#8217 by David J. Pelzer is on your shelf, these 24 titles belong there too. Connected by Reference & Collections, Survival, True Crime and selected for literary and thematic overlap. Featuring work by Gypsy-Rose Blanchard, Kathy Kleiner Rubin, Justin Sand, Robert Rand, and others.

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