child abuse

In March of 1887, Rocco, an eleven-year-old from an Italian village, arrives in New York CIty where he is forced to live in squalor and beg for money as a street musician, but he finds the city's cruelty to children and animals intolerable and sets out to make things better, whatever the cost to himself.

The autobiography of Shyima Hall, who at the age of eight, was sold by her Eygptian parents into domestic slavery.

The sister of Chris McCandless, the man whose life inspired Jon Krakauer's "Into the Wild," writes about her perspective on Chris's decision to forsake possessions and family in order to live in the Alaskan wilderness, revealing the truth of their sometimes violent home life with parents keeping secrets about second families which ultimately drove Chris to find a different way of life.

Reyna Grande chronicles her life as an undocumented immigrant, from her border crossing at age nine, discussing her difficult relationship with her father, and other complications with her family during childhood.

In the California desert, fourteen-year-old Angel is on the run from the man who abused her, killed her mother, and intends to kill her too.

High-schooler Jason, who lives with a drunk, abusive father at home, hopes to earn enough money to escape with his younger sister, Janie, by being tough at school, but the stakes grow ever more dangerous and soon even his fists and ability to think on his feet are not enough to keep his head above water.

Identifies forms of sexual abuse and offers advice on how to get help and how to avoid such abuse.

Presents a rationale for studying child labor in sub-Saharan Africa, focusing on children of school age who work and do not attend school regularly, discussing the political economy of child labor, the role of the education system, differences between urban and rural child laborers, exploitation, and prospects for positive social change.

After they hear of a group of children pressed into service by rebels on another planet, Jon Moore and his hyper-intelligent assault vehicle, Lobo, spring into action, confronting not only the horrors the children are facing, but also a dark chapter from Jon's past.