Explains what to say and do if someone touches your body when you do not want to be touched, especially when the action involves the touching of private parts.
Fifteen-year-old Angelyn Stark, a troubled high school student, is trying to get along while keeping a terrible secret about her past, but when one of her teachers tries to offer her encouragement and support, she does not know how to react.
A novel in verse that tells the story of a girl who witnesses her father abuse her brother and sister but feels powerless to stop it. Then she gains confidence from playing volleyball at school and tries making changes at home.
Presents a collection of thirteen essays that address the controversial issue of sex offender registration and community notification in America, and discusses legal efforts against child pornography, abuse within the Catholic church, the use of the Internet to find victims, and more.
Explains how teenagers can identify, fight, and prevent sexual harassment in school and on their jobs, stressing how inaction may sometimes lead to sexual abuse.
Describes various forms of child abuse, and discusses emotional, physical, sexual abuse, and neglect; and examines the rights and needs of children, and also provides guidance to receive help.
In Iowa in the 1970s, twelve-year-old Tex overcomes his self-consciousness about his deformed right hand to take baseball lessons from his stepfather and his tomboy stepsister, who harbors a dark secret.
