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Amateau, Gigi
Claiming Georgia Tate
Twelve-year-old Georgia Tate feels loved and safe living with Nana and Granddaddy, until her sexually abusive father tries to win her custody.
196 p. 2007
Teen Fiction Book
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Avasthi, Swati
Split
A teenaged boy thrown out of his house by his abusive father goes to live with his older brother, who ran away from home years ago to escape the abuse.
282 p. 2010
Teen Fiction Book
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Bick, Ilsa J.
Drowning Instinct
An emotionally damaged sixteen-year-old girl begins a relationship with a deeply troubled older man.
346 p. 2012
Teen Fiction Book
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Bodeen, S. A.
The Compound
After his parents, two sisters, and he have spent six years in a vast underground compound built by his wealthy father to protect them from a nuclear holocaust, fifteen-year-old Eli, whose twin brother and grandmother were left behind, discovers that his father has perpetrated a monstrous hoax on them all.
248 p. 2008
Teen Fiction Book
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Bridge, Andrew
Hope's Boy
Relates the author's harrowing family circumstances that led to his placement in the equally daunting foster-care system, and describes how he beat the odds through high academic achievement.
306 p. 2008
Adult Nonfiction Book
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Cassidy, Anne
Looking for JJ
Seventeen-year-old Alice, released from prison with a new identity after serving six years for murdering a child, tries to keep her anonymity from the British tabloids, while haunted by memories of her past trauma.
323 p. 2009
Teen Fiction Book
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Chaltas, Thalia
Because I Am Furniture
The youngest of three siblings, fourteen-year-old Anke feels both relieved and neglected that her father abuses her brother and sister but ignores her, but when she catches him with one of her friends, she finally becomes angry enough to take action.
352 p. 2009
Teen Fiction Book
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Childs, Rosie.
Catch Me Before I Fall
Suffering neglect from her mother, a prostitute and alcoholic, Rosie was left in a bare, filthy house to fend for herself and her siblings until, aged nine, she was placed in the care of an order of upright and often cruel nuns. Now, with support as Rosie Childs, she has moved on, and is truly happy at last.
236 p. 2006
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Draper, Sharon M.
Forged By Fire
After surviving a fire, Gerald experiences separation from his mother, the loss of his great aunt, and life with his stepsister's abusive father.
151 p. 1997
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Dugard, Jaycee Lee
A Stolen Life : a Memoir
The memoir of Jaycee Dugard who was kidnapped on June 10, 1991, when she was 11 years old, and was missing for over 18 years before her reappearance in 2009.
273 p. 2011
Adult Nonfiction Book
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Dully, Howard
My Lobotomy
...this normal boy became one of the youngest people on whom Dr. Walter Freeman performed his barbaric...ice pick—lobotomy.
Abandoned by his family within a year of the surgery, Howard spent his teen years in mental institutions, his 20s in jail, and his 30s in a bottle. It wasn’t until he was in his 40s that Howard began to pull his life together. But even as he began to live the “normal” life he had been denied, Howard struggled with one question: Why?
272 p. 2007
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Erlbaum, Janice
Girlbomb : a Halfway Homeless Memoir
At fifteen, sick of her mom's spineless reactions to abusive men -- and afraid of her stepfather's unpredictable behavior -- Janice Erlbaum walked out of her family's apartment and didn't look back. What followed that fateful decision is the heart of this amazing, fascinating, and disturbing memoir -- from the book jacket.
252 p. 2006
Adult Nonfiction Book
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Felin, M. Sindy
Touching Snow
After her stepfather is arrested for child abuse, thirteen-year-old Karina's home life improves but while the severity of her older sister's injuries and the urging of her younger sister, their uncle, and a friend tempt her to testify against him, her mother and other well-meaning adults pursuade her to claim responsibility.
234 p. 2007
Teen Fiction Book
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Fisher, Antwone Quenton
Finding Fish
Born in a women's prison, Fish never knew his family and ended up in the foster care system. His foster family emotionally and physically abused him, and he ended up in reform school and later became homeless. In this memoir, you find out how he turned his life around and realized his dream of becoming a writer in Hollywood. [DVD called Antwone Fisher is available at HCL]
339 p. 2001
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Flinn, Alex
Breathing Underwater
Sent to counseling for hitting his girlfriend, Caitlin, and ordered to keep a journal, sixteen-year-old Nick recounts his relationship with Caitlin, examines his controlling behavior and anger, and describes living with his abusive father.
263 p. 2001
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Grealy, Lucy
Autobiography of a Face
At age 9, Lucy was diagnosed with a potentially terminal cancer. When she returned to school with a third of her jaw removed, she faced the cruel taunts of classmates...Grealy captures with unique insight what it is like as a child and young adult to be torn between two warring impulses: to feel that more than anything else we want to be loved for who we are, while wishing desperately and secretly to be perfect--Back cover.
236 p. 2003
Adult Nonfiction Book
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Gregory, Julie
Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood
...she reveals her life as the victim of the world's most hidden and dangerous form of child abuse, Munchausen by proxy (MBP). In MBP a child's caretaker - almost always the mother - invents or induces symptoms in her child because she craves the attention of medical professionals. Many MBP children die (remember the Sixth Sense?), but Julie survived her mother's madness and rebuilt her life to become a healthy and vibrant adult.
244 p. 2003
Adult Nonfiction Book
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Hayden, Torey L.
Beautiful Child
Seven year old Venus doesn't talk and doesn't seem to listen. She's not deaf. An accidental “bump” by another student could ignite an anger that lashes out at anyone in its path. Learn how Venus and her class mates start to heal with the help of their teacher.
326 p. 2002
Adult Nonfiction Book
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Hopkins, Ellen
Identical
Sixteen-year-old identical twin daughters of a district court judge and a candidate for the United States House of Representatives, Kaeleigh and Raeanne Gardella desperately struggle with secrets that have already torn them and their family apart.
565 p. 2008
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Lauck, Jennifer
Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found
Jenny started to take care of her dying mother when she was five years old. Shortly after her Momma's death, her father married an emotionally abusive woman with children of her own. Then her Daddy died. Jenny and her brother struggled to survive in the face of their stepmother's cruelty and greed until they were saved by their aunt and uncle.
406 p. 2000
Adult Nonfiction Book
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