child abuse

Presents a collection of fourteen essays that look at the abuse of children today, focusing on commercial and sexual exploitation, and how to fight back.

Nine-year-old Jamie runs to a family friend's hillside trailer after his mother's boyfriend tried to throw his baby sister against a wall.

June is physically and emotionally abused by her stepmother, and the only person June feels safe telling is her friend Blister, who helps her believe she can escape her nightmare situation, but when a shocking tragedy occurs June finds herself trapped, potentially forever.

"Hadley McCauley will do anything to keep her sister safe from their father. But when Hadley's forbidden relationship with Charlie Simmons deepens, the violence at home escalates, culminating in an explosive accident that will leave everyone changed. When Hadley attempts to take her own life at the hospital post-accident, her friends, doctors, family, and the investigator on the case want to know why. Only Hadley knows what really happened that day, and she's not talking"--Amazon.com.

"Set against the backdrop of The Wizard of Oz, this tale is both a chilling story of abuse and a timeless romance. Sixteen-year-old good girl Dorothy just blew into the small town of Highland Park where the social headquarters is Munchkinland (Dunkin Donuts.) There, she meets Joey a bad boy who tells no one about the catastrophic domestic violence he witnesses at home. Can these two lovers survive peer pressure, Joey s reputation, and his alcoholism? And then there s his family secret which is about to be unleashed. Joey s words are scattered on the page reflecting his broken state. Dorothy is the voice of reason until something so shattering happens that she, too, may lose her grip. Can their love endure, or will it melt away? Drawing from true events, this brutal love story will hit like a punch in the face and is sure to reach into the soul of every reader."--From publisher.

The author's memoir of how she survived a series of foster homes and intermittent homelessness in the shadow of the Hamptons and how she fought to keep her brother and three sisters together.

Provides information necessary to identify, report, and investigate child abuse.

"Provides basic consumer health information about abuse and neglect of children and adolescents. With information about parenting issues and child abuse risks, prevention and intervention strategies, as well as information about adult survivors of child abuse. Includes index, glossary of related terms, and other resources"--Provided by publisher.

After fifteen years of horrific abuse and neglect by her mother and her mother's boyfriends, Joy struggles to understand and accept a normal life with relatives, at school, and with a boyfriend.