child abuse

Twelve-year-old Ben Derby spends his spring break volunteering at a Santa Barbara day care center for homeless children.

Spenser reflects back to when he was fourteen-years-old and how he helped his best friend Jeannie when she was abducted by her abusive father.

Inexplicable events start to occur when sixteen-year-old twins Tennyson and Bront?? befriend a troubled and misunderstood outcast, aptly nicknamed Bruiser, and his little brother, Cody.

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.

Fourteen-year-old Claire, a victim of child abuse, gradually finds love in the world with the help of two unlikely friends.

Discusses facts about woman and child abuse and describes what victims of abuse are doing to stop it.

Max faces a moral dilemma when he sees new neighbor Sam Black strike Lucas, a boy who is in Sam's care, and later learns that Lucas has run away and is hiding in a secret fort in the woods.

When she is abandoned by her alcoholic mother, high school senior Ruby winds up living with Cora, the sister she has not seen for ten years, and learns about Cora's new life, what makes a family, how to allow people to help her when she needs it, and that she too has something to offer others.

An exploration of child abuse in the United States that examines the seriousness of the issue in America, when it happens, how it is investigated, how it can be prevented, and ways in which people recover from abuse.

Describes various forms of child abuse, and discusses emotional, physical, sexual abuse, and neglect; and examines the rights and needs of children, and also provides guidance to receive help.