child abuse

Tom, his friend Robert, and Robert's sister Emma attempt to rescue a strange girl Robert believes is the counterpart of Lorn, a tiny person he met during his own ordeal as a miniature copy of himself.

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.

Intrigued by the mysterious and angry Romany boy who joins her class, thirteen-year-old Gray finds that he shares her love of horses but harbors a dark secret.

Although twelve-year-old Harper has always liked Moon, an abused, orphaned older boy, their friendship is tested by a discovery Harper makes when Moon joins the Army in 1943.

Contains primary and secondary source materials, including graphs, charts, quotes, and articles, that provide information about child abuse in the U.S. and around the world, covering the history of the problem, the determination and reporting of child abuse, causes and effects, sexual abuse, legal issues, and related topics.

Still troubled by his older brother's violent suicide, eighteen-year-old Dillon becomes deeply involved in the terrible secret of his friend Jennifer, who feels she can tell no one what her stepfather is doing to her.

A case study of a young emotionally disturbed child.

Places the problem of child abuse and neglect in a social perspective, examining the causes as well as the characteristics of offenders, and explores the short- and long-term effects abuse has on its victims.

When her older brother Art--a Catholic priest and the popular pastor of a large suburban parish--finds himself at the center of a scandal, Sheila McGann, estranged from her family for years, returns to Boston, ready to fight for him and his reputation.

Overwhelmed by grief and guilt over her brother's death and its impact on her mother, and at odds with her best friend, twelve-year-old Dellie reaches out to a neglected boy in her building in the projects and learns from a new neighbor to have faith in herself and others.