Sparks of Controversy

So, controversy of Go Ask Alice and Jay's Journal, maybe they weren't as true as I'd thought. Turns out the editor has been accused on many accounts of creating fraud to both stories. Supposedly she took passages and events from multiple of her clients' journals and combined them into the resulting two books. Jay's Journal however was taken from one boy in particular but had bits and pieces added to it from, like I said, other journals that did not belong to the boy. In the case of Jay's Journal, the original story and published story were so different in that the published story had strayed so far from truth that it upset the original story's family. The family had to move from their city because people had read this book, immediately knew who it was about, and then read the added bits and pieces that weren't true of the real boy and began to ridicule the family. That's horrible, and even though the books are good I definitely think the publisher or editor should make a note in the book explaining that although the events in the books are very much like real life events, they did not really happen and the people, places, and occurrences are fictional. The most 'non-fiction' of the two stories is without a doubt Jay's Journal.