child sexual abuse

Presents the edited diary of a fourteen-year-old girl who has an affair with her substitute math teacher.

Nine essays present various perspectives on the issue of child sexual abuse, discussing the prevalence of the crime, the reliability of recovered memories of abuse, the seriousness of the problem of sexual abuse committed by other children, and whether priests who have molested children can be reintegrated into society.

Presents an introductory guide on safety issues for adolescents, written in simple text with full-color photographs and illustrations, and describes how to avoid a number of threats to personal safety, and covers what to do when faced with a scary situations. Includes quiz.

Fictionalized episodes and an introductory discussion present the dangers of child molesting in its various forms and suggest ways of preventing or dealing with it.

After moving with his mother to a trailer park to care for an injured aunt, eleven-year-old Jamie Reardon struggles to cope with a deeply buried secret.

Identifies forms of sexual abuse and offers advice on how to get help and how to avoid such abuse.

After having been sent, at a very young age, from New York to live with her grandmother in Haiti, fourteen-year-old Mardi returns to join her parents and try to shape a new life in Brooklyn.

Martin, a young boy growing up in Ottawa, Canada, in the waning days of World War II, has plenty of troubles at home, but they take a back seat when Martin becomes the target of Mr. George, a sexual predator who plays the organ at his church.

A collection of information and reference tools on childhood sexual abuse, which covers the issue's background, history, specific problems and controversies; provides a global perspective; and includes a chronology, biographical sketches, facts and statistics, and annotated lists of print and nonprint resources and organizations, associations, and agencies.

An account of the life of Truddi Chase, a woman who developed multiple personalities as a result of childhood abuse and incest.