psychological abuse

Introduces children to bullying and how to prevent it.

Fifteen-year-old Cassie Streng is determined to expose her stepfather after learning that he is giving a dangerous experimental drug to his teenaged psychiatric patients, but he sends her to a boot camp for troubled teens in Mexico in order to keep her quiet.

Fifteen-year-old Cassie Streng is determined to expose her stepfather after learning that he is giving a dangerous experimental drug to his teenaged psychiatric patients, but he sends her to a boot camp for troubled teens in Mexico in order to keep her quiet.

The author describes her childhood, during which her father abandoned her, her mother abused her, and she suffered physical and emotional pain because of her obesity, and reflects upon her love-hate relationship with food in adulthood.

The author describes her childhood, during which her father abandoned her, her mother abused her, and she suffered physical and emotional pain because of her obesity, and reflects upon her love-hate relationship with food in adulthood.

Presents information for teenagers on abuse to help them understand bullying, sexual abuse, the role of alcohol and drugs, the common traits of abusers, prevention, and how to get help. Includes questions with answers and real-life stories as well as fact-boxes, illustrations, and tables.

A lonely teenager exiled to a remote Vermont boarding school in the wake of a family tragedy must either surrender his sanity to the wild wolves inside his mind or learn that surviving means more than not dying.

Joy Delamere is suffocating from severe asthma, overprotective parents, and an emotionally-abusive boyfriend when she escapes to the streets of nearby Seattle and falls in with a "street family" that teaches her to use a strength she did not know she had.