child abuse

Annette Goode, abused by the boarder her mother has taken in, is forced out of her self-imposed solitude when the beautiful, worldly Rhoda decides to be her friend, but Annette finally comes to realize Rhoda's friendship is more burden than blessing.

After John was trashed by beautiful, shallow, and manipulative Gloria, he discovers that down-to-earth Violet is truly the girl of his dreams. With his life already at one of its lowest points, John verbally abuses his algebra teacher and receives a week's suspension. He is viciously beaten by "the man who is not my father, " and his mother doesn't know that her live-in almost-fiance? is a hard-drinking, violent crook until he nearly kills John on a night when she is out of town.

The author shares the story of her four years as a volunteer at an orphanage in rural China, the one-child policy that created hundreds of abandoned infants, and the children she came to know, love, and care for.

A novel describing the experiences of four children who are locked up in the attic of their grandmother's home after the death of their father.

Seventeen-year-old Matthew recounts his attempts, starting at a young age, to free himself and his sisters from the grip of their emotionally and physically abusive mother.

A guide to understanding how wonderful and special you are and how your body belongs to you.

Offers children a strategy for dealing with the "uncomfortable touch" whether it is tickling or more serious abuse.

Precious Jones, an illiterate incest victim now pregnant with her second child, finds her strength and voice when she is mentored by a new teacher.

Nursing hatred for the father who choked her and damaged her voice as a child, seventeen-year-old Alice writes songs she feels she cannot sing and seeks to reconcile her feelings for herself and her father.

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.