Here are some non-fiction ideas for you!
Gantos, Jack. Hole in My Life.--The author relates how, as a young adult, he bacame a drug user and smuggler, was arrested, did time in prison, and eventually got out and went to colleg, all the while hoping to become a writer.

Roach, Mary. Stiff: the curious lives of human cadavers.--Explores how human cadavers have been used throughout history, discussing how the use of dead bodies has benefited every aspect of human existence.

Schlosser, Eric. Fast food nation: the dark side of the all-American meal.--Traces the history of the fast food industry and discusses how it arose in postwar America.

Hawk, Tony and Sean Mortimer. Hawk: occupation: skateboarder.--Internationally known American skateboarding champ Tony Hawk chronicles his life and his very eventful involvement with the sport.

Murphy, Jim. An American plague: the true and terrifying story of the yellow fever epidemic of 1793.--Provides an account of the yellow fever epidemic that swept through Philadelphia in 1793, discussing the chaos that erupted when people began evacuating in droves, leaving the city without government, goods, or services, and examining efforts by physicians, the Free African Society, and others to cure and care for the sick.

Pelzer, Dave. A child called "it", The lost boy, and A man called Dave--Chronicles the life of the author as he grows up as an abused child moved into foster care and then eventually his life as an adult.

Tarbox, Katie. Katie.com: my story--Katie Tarbox explains how and why she bacame involved, at the age of thirteen, with an Internet stalker, a middle-aged man who had tolder he was welthy twenty-three-year-old; and shares the story of her ordeal after she realized, almost too late, that he was a sexual predatorl.

Of these I have only read the first one, however, I have heard good things about them all from various students and staff. So try them out and write us a review to put in our binder and post here. I'll come up with some good historical fiction later...