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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The Only Girl in the World describes the author's harrowing upbringing by fanatic parents, who raised her in isolation through traumatic disciplinary exercises designed to "eliminate weakness" and recounts how she eventually escaped with the help of an outsider.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
A novel in verse follows the experiences of fourteen-year-old Lilly, as an innocent flirtation turns into sexual abuse by a friend of her parents and she is tormented by her abuser's threat to ruin her family and her own desperate need for help.
Author
Language
English
Description
"From Lou Berney, the acclaimed, multi award-winning author of November Road and The Long and Faraway Gone, comes a Dark Ride"--
"Twenty-one-year-old Hardy "Hardly" Reed--good-natured, easygoing, usually stoned--is drifting through life. A minimum wage scare actor at an amusement park, he avoids unnecessary effort and unrealistic ambitions. Then one day he notices two children, around six or seven, sitting all alone on a bench. Hardly checks if they're...
Author
Publisher
Avery, Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"A new, hopeful pathway to understanding children's trauma and providing effective interventions to build healthier communities Each year at least a billion children around the world are victims of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) that range from physical abuse to racial discrimination to neglect and food deprivation. The brain plasticity of our most vulnerable makes the adverse effects of trauma only that much more damaging to mental and physical...
5) Blood drive
Author
Series
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2007, c2006
Language
English
Description
Anna Strong is a vampire caught between two worlds. She clings to what makes her human--her family, her job, her lover. But the pull of the undead is a siren song becoming impossible to resist. Then she discovers her brother, who was tragically killed fourteen years ago, had a daughter he never knew about, and Trish is a child caught up in the worst kind of human nightmare. To save Trish, Anna may have to surrender to the animal side of her nature....
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Picking up where Christopher{u2019}s Diary: Secrets of Foxworth leaves off, Kristin Masterwood and her boyfriend up the ante--by going into her attic to re-enact scenes described in Christopher Dollanganger's journal. Jealousy, tragedy, survival, and revenge--the discovery of Christopher's diary in the ruins of Foxworth Hall brings new secrets of the Dollanganger family to light and obsesses a new generation. With Flowers in the Attic and Petals on...
Author
Publisher
Nelson Books, an imprint ofThomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In The Relentless Courage of a Scared Child, Tana Amen shares her incredible story of transformation--of growing up in poverty, a bullied latch-key kid raised on sugary cereal and junk food, to becoming a world-renowned food and fitness expert.
8) Losing Leah
Author
Publisher
Feiwel & Friends
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Ten years after the tragic disappearance of her twin sister Leah, sixteen-year-old Mia Klein still struggles to exist within a family that has never fully recovered. Deep in the dark recesses of her mind lies an overwhelming shadow, taunting Mia with mind-splitting headaches that she tries to hide in an effort to appear okay. Leah Klein's life as she knew it ended the day she was taken, thrust into a world of abuse and fear by a distubed captor -...
10) No good asking
Author
Publisher
ECW Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"A profoundly moving exploration of our capacity to heal one another. Ellie and Eric Nyland have moved their two sons back to Eric's childhood farmhouse, hoping for a fresh start. But there's no denying it, their family is falling apart, each one of them isolated by private sorrows, stresses, and missed signals. With every passing day, Ellie's hopes are buried deeper in the harsh winter snows. When Eric finds Hannah Finch, the girl across the road,...
11) Tell me
Author
Language
English
Description
Just as a woman who was convicted of killing her daughter, Amity, twenty years prior is about to be set free after her son recants his testimony, reporter Nikki Gillette, a childhood friend of Amity, seeks the real truth.
12) Saving Ruby King
Author
Language
English
Description
When Ruby King's mother is found murdered in their home in Chicago's South Side, the police dismiss it as another act of violence in a black neighborhood. But for Ruby, it's a devastating loss that leaves her on her own with her violent father. While she receives many condolences, her best friend, Layla, is the only one who understands how this puts Ruby in jeopardy. Their closeness is tested when Layla's father, the pastor of their church, demands...
Author
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In CinderGirl, Christina tells her piercing and poignant story of leaving behind homelessness to become Ms. California and the founder of a nonprofit organization that provides advocacy for foster care children. With stunning vulnerability, Christina invites us into her childhood home and the heart of a child longing to be loved. She asks us to journey with her across the country and deep into a growing faith. She invites us to dig deeper into our...
15) Shallow grave
Author
Series
South Shores volume 4
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Volunteering with a support group for children affected by domestic violence, forensic psychologist Claire Britten, aided by partner Nick Markwood, investigates a suspicious death at a wildlife sanctuary, only to be confronted by an attack that is too close to home.
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Shirley Jackson meets Friday the 13th in My Heart Is a Chainsaw, written by the author of The Only Good Indians Stephen Graham Jones, called "a literary master" by National Book Award winner Tananarive Due and "one of our most talented living writers" by Tommy Orange. Alma Katsu calls My Heart Is a Chainsaw "a homage to slasher films that also manages to defy and transcend genre." On the surface is a story of murder in small-town America. But beneath...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Growing up, Mallory "Mouse" Dodge learned that the best way to survive was to say nothing. After she escaped her terrifying childhood and spent years being homeschooled by loving adoptive parents, she is starting her senior year at a public high school. The first day, she runs into Rider Stark, the friend and protector from her childhood, and Mallory realizes that their bond never really faded. But as Rider's life spirals out of control, Mallory faces...
Publisher
Grijalbo
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
¿Cómo podemos prevenir el abuso y la violencia sexual contra niñas, niños y adolescentes? ¿Cómo escuchar a nuestras hijas y nuestros hijos? ¿Cómo podemos detectar síntomas de maltrato en ellas y ellos? ¿Cuáles son los pasos a seguir para denunciar? ¿Quiénes pueden ayudarnos en el proceso? ¿Cómo podemos empezar a curar las heridas y las cicatrices? Éstas y más preguntas se resolverón a lo largo de las capítulos de este libro, gracias...
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