Stories illustrated with photographs depict different situations in which children are approached by strangers and explain the importance of understanding the dangers of such encounters.
At her grandmother's beach cottage, Annie reveals her father's sexual abuse of her to a dove who helps her heal and learn to trust again. Lists guidelines for adults to help sexually abused children.
Documents the author's investigation into a shattering childhood trauma in South Africa, tracing the discovery of her grandfather's abuse of her mother, which compelled her mother's unsuccessful attempt to kill him before fleeing the country.
A suave high school drama coach is at the bottom of fourteen-year-old Debbie's withering relationship with her older sister, her best friend, and short, witty Murray, whose friendship had been very special to her.
Fifteen-year-old Raven, using only a diary for clues, teams up with a streetwise boy and an elderly homeless woman in an effort to find her missing sister, Marcie, who has apparently been captured by a ring smuggling teens from Vancouver into Asia.
