Shaw, Susan

Suzie's stay in a mental hospital helps her tear down the walls of a devastating psychological prison she calls "the box.".

After witnessing her mother's murder, sixteen-year-old high school student Liza Wellington and her father go into the witness protection program.

Charlie, a twelve-year-old boy who has been confined to his basement by his abusive, psychotic father, is accidently locked out after sneaking outside one night, and ends up in the hospital where he gets the attention he needs and a new start in life.

When thirteen-year-old Tracy, whose mother died when she was three years old, is raped and beaten on the last day of school, all her feelings of security disappear and she does not know how to cope with the fear and dread that engulf her.

Suzie's stay in a mental hospital helps her tear down the walls of a devastating psychological prison that she calls "the box.".

Charlie, a twelve-year-old boy who has been confined to his basement by his abusive, psychotic father, is accidently locked out after sneaking outside one night, and ends up in the hospital where he gets the attention he needs and a new start in life.

After witnessing her mother's murder, sixteen-year-old high school student Liza Wellington and her father go into the witness protection program.

When his classmates die in a school fire, fourteen-year-old Joey is haunted by their deaths and struggles to survive amidst suspicion and anger from the town.