abused children

Tracy Ross never knew her biological father who died after a brain aneurysm when she was still an infant. When her mother married Donnie, four-year-old Tracy got a step-father who was gregarious and loved the outdoors. The family was close and Tracy had the dad she dreamed of---protective, brave and kind. His nightime visits began when Tracy was eight and her childhood became a confusing blend of normal little girl moments and the sickening, secret invasion of her safety. She became a teen-age runaway and at the age of sixteen realized she must take control of her own future so she sent herself to boarding school and began a twenty-year journey towards recovery, using the outdoors she had loved as a child to help the healing process.

Richard is David Pelzer's brother. While Dave was removed from his mother's home by the time he was twelve years old, his brother Richard was not. He became the new scapegoat for his mother's alcohol-fueled wrath. How he survived years of his mother's abuse is the subject of this book.

The personal story of a boy with abusive and neglectful parents is accompanied by information about topics related to the child protection system.

Neglected by an alcoholic father, abused by her drug-addicted mother, and bullied and taunted by her classmates, seventeen-year-old Kate is suspicious of everyone. When Henry Jamison, the boy Kaste was developing a relationship with before he moved away six years earlier, returns to town, he finds it difficult to earn her trust and find his way back into her life and her heart.

Examines various situations in which you encounter verbal abuse and provides strategies to fend off these attacks while keeping your dignity and sanity.

A teacher of emotionally disturbed children tells of her work with a silent and withdrawn eight-year-old girl who is the possible victim of ritual abuse.

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.

"When eighteen-year-old Hunter Jackson and his half sister, Ashlin, return to their dad's for the first winter in years, they expect everything to be just like the warmer months they'd spent there as kids. And it is -- at first. But Chance, the charismatic and adventurous boy who made their summers epic, is harboring deep secrets. Secrets that are quickly spiraling into something else entirely. The reason they've never met Chance's parents or seen his home is becoming clearer. And what the siblings used to think of as Chance's quirks -- the outrageous stories, his clinginess, his dangerous impulsiveness -- are now warning signs that something is seriously off. Then someone turns up with a bullet to the head, and all eyes shift to Chance's family. Hunter and Ashlin know Chance is innocent ... they just have to prove it. But how can they protect the boy they both love when they can't trust a word Chance says?"--Page 4 of cover.