self-mutilation

"This title examines how self-injury affects individuals and society, investigates how people are working to put an end to self-injury, and analyzes the controversies and conflicting viewpoints surrounding the issue. Features include a glossary, selected bibliography, websites, source notes, and an index, plus a timeline and essential facts. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards"--Provided by the publisher.

Willa seems to have a perfect life as a member of a loving blended family until the estranged father she barely remembers murders his wife and children, then heads toward Willa and her mother.

Unhappy at home, Nancy and her friend Katie adopt punk lifestyles and find relief in cutting themselves, until Nancy is forced to confront her problems.

For Percy, the loss of his father and the suicide of his best friend build to a head during the last week before high school graudation.

Describes cutting and other forms of self-mutilation and the people who harm themselves because of overwhelming emotional pain often as a result of being abused as children.

Willa's life as part of a loving, blended family is torn apart when her estranged father kills his new wife and children and heads east in pursuit of her and her mother, and while in police protection, Willa learns her mom has been harboring secrets, and tries to decide whether to share a devastating secret of her own.

Fifteen-year-old Kendra, a budding artist who has not felt safe since she began to remember devastating memories of childhood sexual abuse, cannot seem to recall her abuser's identity and copes with the stress by cutting herself.

Figure-skating star Katie Roskova, unable to express her feelings of panic and anger, develops a habit of cutting herself with scissors and hiding her scars beneath long-sleeve shirts, but as pressures mount her wounds become more serious and soon her secret is revealed.