child abuse

Dr. Alex Delaware goes to Western Pediatrics Hospital to help treat the mysterious illness of a child and gets involved with hospital politics and murder.

When his mother leaves, sixteen-year-old Bobby, a Choctaw, begins living in a hole in his backyard to avoid his abusive father, and is surprised to find friends and neighbors willing to help him. Inspired by the traditional Choctaw story.

An autobiography of Shyima Hall, who at the age of eight, was sold by her Eygptian parents into domestic slavery.

In March of 1887, Rocco, an eleven-year-old from an Italian village, arrives in New York CIty where he is forced to live in squalor and beg for money as a street musician, but he finds the city's cruelty to children and animals intolerable and sets out to make things better, whatever the cost to himself.

A teenaged boy thrown out of his house by his abusive father goes to live with his older brother, who ran away from home years earlier under similar circumstances.

Although in remission, Jessie's leukemia makes it hard for her to make friends, so when she hits it off with the wild and adventurous Max, Jessie wants to report that Max's guardians are abusive drug users, but is afraid to risk their friendship.

Seventeen-year-old Aria is a piano prodigy whose abusive father forbids her from going near a piano and whose only friend Thomas goes missing just as she braves everything to audition for Juilliard.

When thirteen-year-old Mascha visits her grandparents for the summer, she meets siblings Max and Julia, and becomes concerned when she sees bruises on the children. After witnessing an incident that convinces her they are being abused by their father, a prominent member of the small town, she decides she must tell someone. She quickly learns that convincing members of the community one of their own is capable of abuse is more difficult than she imagined.

Told in their separate voices, twelve-year-olds Petra, who escaped her abusive father's Amsterdam house in 1663, and Bram, a half-Javanese/half-Dutch boy, relate their adventures at sea after Petra stows away and Bram, son of the ship's carpenter, helps her disguise herself as a boy.