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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 pages 2007
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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
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 End is Near
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Burch, Jennings Michael
They Cage the Animals at Night
Eight year old Jennings was abandoned at an orphanage and grew up in the foster care system. He never stayed any place long enough to make friends and his loneliness overwhelmed him. This is the story of how he learned to reach out for love and friendship.
293 pages 1984
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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
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Chang, David W.
The Scholar and the Tiger : a Memoir of Famine and War in Revolutionary China
How did Chang survive famine, poverty and revolution in China? And how did he survive an abusive father who beat his mother and tried to smother him to death? How did he survive once he fled Communist China and left all he knew and loved behind him?
171 p. 2009
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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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Coretta Scott King Award - Authors
Coretta Scott King Award for Older Readers
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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 pages 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
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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 pages 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 pages 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 pages 2003
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Women's Memoirs
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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 pages 2003
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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 pages 2002
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Hayden, Torey L.
Ghost Girl : the True Story of a Child in Peril and the Teacher Who Saved her
Jadie never spoke. She never laughed, or cried, or uttered any sound. Despite efforts to reach her, Jadie remained locked in her own troubled world--until one remarkable teacher persuaded her to break her self-imposed silence. Nothing in all of Torey Hayden's experience could have prepared her for the shock of what Jadie told her--a story too horrendous for Torey's professional colleagues to acknowledge.
307 pages 1992
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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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Teens' Top Ten Nominees 2009
Teens' Top Ten Winners
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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 pages 2000
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Leavitt, Martine
Heck, Superhero
Abandoned by his mentally ill mother, thirteen-year-old Heck tries to survive on his own as his mind bounces between the superhero character he imagines himself to be and the harsh reality of his life.
144 p. 2004
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Mah, Adeline Yen
Chinese Cinderella
Blamed for her mother's death in childbirth, Adeline Mah describes her life as an outcast in her own family and the cruel treatment she received from her father and stepmother. She found a refuge in school and used her education to build a better and happier life for herself.
205 pages 1999
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Discussion Guides - Children's Books
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Mazer, Norma Fox
The Missing Girl
In Mallory, New York, as five sisters, aged eleven to seventeen, deal with assorted problems, conflicts, fears, and yearnings, a mysterious middle-aged man watches them, fascinated, deciding which one he likes the best.
284 p. 2008
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Michener, Anna J.
Becoming Anna: The Autobiography of a Sixteen-year-old
In a poignant and painful memoir of her first sixteen years, Anna Michener offers an immediate account of the unhealed wounds of her youth, chronicling the neglect, abuse by her family, as well as her unjust incarceration in mental hospitals.
256 pages 1998
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