Contains over five hundred alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about various aspects of child abuse, its causes, and prevention; and includes a selection of reference materials, as well as directories of related organizations.
A fictionalized account of the Pakistani child who escaped from bondage in a carpet factory and went on to help liberate other children like him before being gunned down at the age of thirteen.
After moving with his emotionally distant father to the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York, twelve-year-old Owen faces a lonely summer until he meets an abused girl who may be a space alien.
The daily class discussions about contemporary issues serve as a backdrop for a high-school senior's attempt to answer a friend's dramatic cry for help.
The true story of a young girl sold into slavery by her parents when she was only eight years old, her rescue by an anonymous phone call at twelve, and her ultimate triumph over her tragic circumstances.
A teenaged boy thrown out of his house by his abusive father goes to live with his older brother, who ran away from home years earlier under similar circumstances.
As she sits watching a seemingly perfect family and a handsome lifeguard on the beach, a lonely, troubled girl projects herself into the fantasy lives she has created for them.
Having fled to a family friend's hillside trailer after his mother's boyfriend tried to throw his baby sister against a wall, nine-year-old Jamie finds himself living an existence full of uncertainty and fear.
Inexplicable events start to occur when sixteen-year-old twins Tennyson and Bront? befriend a troubled and misunderstood outcast, aptly nicknamed Bruiser, and his little brother, Cody.
