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Hate You
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Graham McNamee |
Nursing hatred for the father who choked her and damaged her voice as a child, seventeen-year-old Alice writes songs she feels she cannot sing and seeks to reconcile her feelings for herself and her … |
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Don't Hurt Laurie!
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Willo Davis Roberts |
"Don't Hurt Laurie is Willo Davis Roberts' story of a girl physically abused by her mother. Can she escape, and will anyone believe her story?"
After her mother, prone to fits of anger, remarries,… |
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Out of the blue
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S. L. Rottman |
After moving to Minot, North Dakota, with his mother, the first female base commander, Air Force dependent Stu Ballentyne gradually becomes aware that something terrible is going on in his neighbor's… |
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Hero
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S. L. Rottman |
After years of abuse from his mother and neglect from his father, ninth-grader Sean Parker is headed for trouble until he is sent to do community service at a farm owned by an old man who teaches Sea… |
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The boy from the basement
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Susan Shaw |
A twelve-year-old boy is confined to his basement without food or clothing. |
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What comes after
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Steve Watkins |
When her veterinarian father dies, sixteen-year-old Iris Wight must move from Maine to North Carolina where her Aunt Sue spends Iris's small inheritance while abusing her physically and emotionally, … |
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Girl reporter stuck in jam!
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Linda Ellerbee |
Intrepid eleven-year-old journalist Casey Smith is so busy trying to get a story for the newspaper about a victim of physical abuse that she neglects her friend Ringo, the school's first male cheerle… |
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Lock and Key
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Sarah Dessen |
"Ruby, where is your mother?"Ruby knows that the game is up. For the past few months, she's been on her own in the yellow house, managing somehow, knowing that her mother will probably never return.T… |
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Orbiting Jupiter
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Gary D. Schmidt |
I personally (perspective of a 12 y/o) LOVE this book! Starting on page 174 to the end of the book made me cry. This book is written from Jack's POV. (SPOILER)--> Joseph's father intrudes in his new … |
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When She Was Good
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Norma Fox Mazer |
The death of her abusive, manipulative older sister prompts seventeen-year-old Em to remember their unpleasant life together, with their parents and then later on their own. |
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Gossamer
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Anne Twomey,Lois Lowry |
While learning to bestow dreams, a young dream giver tries to save an eight-year-old boy from the effects of both his abusive past and the nightmares inflicted on him by the frightening Sinisteeds. |
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I don't want to go to Justin's house anymore
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Heather Klassen |
Collin is reluctant to go to his friend Justin's house because Justin is being beaten by his father. |
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Orbiting Jupiter
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Gary D. Schmidt |
Jack, 12, tells the gripping story of Joseph, 14, who joins his family as a foster child. Damaged in prison, Joseph wants nothing more than to find his baby daughter, Jupiter, whom he has never seen.… |
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One of the problems of Everett Anderson
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Lucille Clifton |
Everett Anderson wonders how he can help his friend Greg, who appears to be a victim of child abuse. |
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The Watcher
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James Howe |
A mysterious girl, dubbed The Watcher, spins tales of rescue from her lonely perch above the beach. She closely observes the actions of two people she has never met: a fourteen-year-old boy whose fam… |
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You Don't Know Me
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David Klass |
Fourteen-year-old John creates alternative realities in his mind as he tries to deal with his mother's abusive boyfriend, his crush on a beautiful, but shallow classmate and other problems at school. |
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Racing the past
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Sis Boulos Deans |
After the death of his abusive father, eleven-year-old Ricky tries to help his younger brother deal with his residual fears and discovers that running helps him deal with his own anger and the taunts… |
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The maestro
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Tim Wynne-Jones |
Fleeing from his brutal father, fourteen-year-old Burl arrives at the remote cabin of an eccentric genius who in just one day changes the young man's life forever. |
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Lucy Forever and Miss Rosetree, Shrinks
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Susan Shreve |
Two sixth graders with a pretend psychiatry practice come upon a small mute child from an orphanage and determine they are going to use all their knowledge to help her to talk. |
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Stained
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Jennifer Jacobson |
In Weaver Falls, New Hampshire, in 1975, seventeen-year-old Jocelyn looks for answers when her lifelong neighbor and friend, Gabe, turns up missing and she learns that, while her boyfriend has been t… |
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