Chaltas, Thalia

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.

The youngest of three siblings, fourteen-year-old Anke feels both relieved and neglected that her father abuses her brother and sister but ignores her, but when she catches him with one of her friends, she finally becomes angry enough to take action.

The reality of Vera's life with an absentee mother and a drowned sister becomes too much for her to handle, so she runs away to an old mining town in the middle of the California desert where she begins the process of healing and figuring out the real meaning of home.