abused children

Recounts the experiences of Michael O'McCarthy and Robert Straley, two teenage boys, who, in the 1950s and 1960s, suffered abuses at their reform school in Florida and more than fifty years later attempted to confront those responsible.

Rosie Childs reflects on her childhood as the only black child of an all-white family in an all-white area of Liverpool in the 1950s, discussing how her skin color impacted every aspect of her life and family.

Annette Goode meets the father who left her and her mother when she was an infant, loses her groom when her uncle announces that she used to be a prostitute, and reconnects with the friend who murdered her rapist.

Ruby's gift of a sixth sense has given her the ability to know her own destiny and seek her soul mate, a British actor named Orion, whom she winds up nursing back to health after coincidence brings them together.

In the forgotten little town of Azul in rural Argentina, there is a magical house. No one has lived there for almost as long as anyone can remember. But once a year, at midnight, the house turns blue, and twenty-four hours later it turns white again. For twelve-year-old Cintia, the little blue house is a refuge from life with her angry father. When the house is suddenly put up for sale, she and her best friend Bruno set out to save it.

Discusses various threats to the health and safety of young people today, including smoking, drug and alcohol use, eating disorders, AIDS, and abusive situations.

Discusses the forms of child abuse, its historical and cultural context, and society's methods of dealing with it.

Suzie's stay in a mental hospital helps her tear down the walls of a devastating psychological prison that she calls "the box.".

When Reyna Grande's father leaves his wife and three children behind in a village in Mexico to work in the United States, he promises to return with enough money to build them a dream house where they can all live together. Instead, his wife joins him and Reyna and her siblings are depositied in the already overburdened household of their stern, unsmiling grandmother. The three siblings band together to combat the pain of abandonment. When their mother returns at last, Reyna will make her own journey to live with her father.