abused women

"Parents, teens, and survivors are lucky that Elin Stebbins Waldal has the courage to share her own harrowing experience with teen dating violence. At 17 she unwittingly fell in love with an abusive man. Tornado Warning is the true, honest portrait of how he whittled her down--with words, hands, and weapons--from a confident teen to the shadow of a woman. But Elin offers more. Interwoven with herreal-life journal, she reflects on how this relationship hasaffected her since, and how she is working to protect her teenagers from succumbing to a similar experience"--Back cover.

With her best friend and longtime crush, Josh, Lillian sets out on a road trip to find her friend, Penny, who has faked her own kidnapping.

Leslie's journal documents her struggle for survival against her boyfriend Jason's abuse.

After witnessing abusive high school and adult relationships, seventeen-year-old Shelby, who hopes to be a fashion designer, must decide how to respond, especially considering that one of the abused women is the wife of the man opposing Shelby's father in the mayoral race.

In 1970, fourteen-year-old Shoshanna, six-year-old Mara, and their mother escape from Sweet Earth Farm, a declining commune run by their tyranical and abusive father, but after finding peace and stability at Avery Elliot's farm, their mother's crippling depression returns.

In the 1960s, seventeen-year-old Melinda leaves an abusive home for San Francisco, meets the charismatic Henry, and follows him to his desert commune where sex and drugs are free, but soon his "family" becomes violent against rich and powerful people and she is compelled to join in.

Offers personal testimonies and advice designed to help women who are being abused get out and stay out of the abusive relationship, and calls for witnesses of abuse to become active in helping victims.

Cindy thought Bobby was perfect, then he changed. Cindy soon finds herself in the worst trouble of her life.

Maureen O'Donnell travels to London to investigate the death of a young woman who visited Maureen's office at the Glasgow women's shelter two weeks earlier.

Chronicles the life of Zelda Fitzgerald, discussing how she transformed from the archetypal Southern belle to the first American flapper.