child sexual abuse

"A friendship with a troubled classmate helps Macy confront the childhood sexual trauma she has kept secret for years."--Amazon.

Fifteen-year-old Sarah Greene, sentenced to do community service hours at Camp Dog Gone Fun after a brief skirmish with the law, is finally able to come to grips with her past and the abuse she suffered from her father with the help of Judy, a big, goofy dog, and a quirky boy named Sullivan.

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

Each chapter presents the true story of a child victim of sexual abuse and tells how, because of blame and shame, the victims became trapped in silence, how they broke the bonds of secrecy, and offers advice on how to avoid such abuse and how to get help.

Marie, the black girl in the eighth grade willing to befriend her white classmate Lena, discovers that Lena's father is doing horrible things to her in private.

Tish, a teenager who has been enduring abuse from her adoptive stepfather since she was a small child, finally decides she must do something to stop him.

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.

Independent-minded and angry at being left at home while her parents travel on business, twelve-year-old Iris gives her babysitter the slip; but a disturbing incident makes her realize that she does need her family and friends.

In this haunting hybrid of memoir and true crime account, Marzano-Lesnevich describes how a law school internship set her on a collision course with Ricky Langley, a pedophile and murderer, forcing her to contend with past trauma and preexisting prejudice.

Kiko Himura yearns to escape the toxic relationship with her mother by getting into her dream art school, but when things do not work out as she hoped Kiko jumps at the opportunity to tour art schools with her childhood friend, learning life-changing truths about herself and her past along the way.