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Our Parenting guide tries to answer a parent’s questions of how to raise a happy, healthy child in this modern world.
Author
Series
Young elites volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Adelina Amouteru is a survivor of the blood fever. A decade ago, the deadly illness swept through her nation. Most of the infected perished, while many of the children who survived were left with strange markings. Adelina's black hair turned silver, her lashes went pale, and now she has only a jagged scar where her left eye once was. Her cruel father believes she is a malfetto, an abomination, ruining their family's good name and standing in the way...
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
[1993]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The daily class discussions about the nature of man, the existence of God, abortion, organized religion, suicide and other contemporary issues serve as a backdrop for a high-school senior's attempt to answer a friend's dramatic cry for help.
Author
Series
Wen zi sen lin volume 005
Publisher
Cai shi wen hua shi ye gu fen you xian gong si
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
中文(繁體)
Author
Series
Dollanganger family series volume 1
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Chris, Cathy, and the twins are to be kept hidden until their grandfather dies so that their mother will receive a sizeable inheritance, however, years pass and terrifying things occur as the four children grow up in their one room prison.
9) Wu ye tian e
Author
Series
Publisher
Cai shi wen hua shi ye gu fen you xian gong si
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
中文(繁體)
Author
Series
Chun ri wen ku volume 94
Publisher
Chun tian chu ban guo ji wen hua you xian gong si
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
中文(繁體)
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"To their family, neighbors, and online friends, Louise and David Turpin presented a picture of domestic bliss: dressing their thirteen children in matching outfits and buying them expensive gifts. But what police discovered when they entered the Turpin family home would eclipse the most shocking child abuse cases in history. For years, David and Louise had kept their children in increasing isolation, trapping them in a sinister world of torture,...
12) Trigger
Author
Publisher
Atheneum, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Didi's father is constantly pressuring her to do better: win at chess, run faster every day, shoot better, hunt better or go hungry; she is not allowed friends, or time off or any pleasures; he always reminds her that they have to be prepared to fight the rest of the world--but what he never tells her is that when she is the best he plans to hunt her.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Documents the author's investigation into her late mother's tragic experiences as an illegitimate orphan who endured an early life of discrimination, physical abuse and harsh labor serving England's ruling class at London's infamous Foundling Hospital.
14) Saving Ruby King
Author
Publisher
Park Row Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"When Ruby King's mother is found murdered in their home in Chicago's South Side, the police dismiss it as another act of violence in a black neighborhood. But for Ruby, it's a devastating loss that leaves her on her own with her violent father. While she receives many condolences, her best friend, Layla, is the only one who understands how this puts Ruby in jeopardy. Their closeness is tested when Layla's father, the pastor of their church, demands...
Author
Series
David Pelzer trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
This volume is the second installment of a trilogy of books which depict the life of the author, who as a young boy was physically, emotionally, and psychologically abused by his obsessive mother. The book discusses Pelzer's struggling with his ability to fit in and adapt to the new environment around him as he is put into foster care. It also talks about the kindness of his foster parents and other people around him as well as his inability to brush...
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"When Dahlia decided to become a foster mother, she had a few caveats: no howling newborns, no delinquents, and above all, no girls. A harrowing incident years before left her a virtual prisoner in her own home, forever wary of the heartbreak and limitation of a girl's life. Eleven years after they began fostering, Dahlia and Louie consider their family complete, but when the social worker begs them to take a young girl who has been horrifically abused...
Author
Series
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"You won't find a more hardcore eighties slasher fan than high school senior Jade Daniels. And you won't find a place less supportive of girls who wear torn T-shirts and too much eyeliner than Proofrock, nestled eight thousand feet up the mountain in Idaho, situated in Pleasant Valley right alongside Indian Lake, home to both Camp Blood -- site of a massacre fifty years ago --and, as of this summer, Terra Nova, a second-home celebrity Camelot being...
Author
Series
David Pelzer trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"All those years you tried your best to break me, and I'm still here. One day you'll see, I'm going to make something of myself." These words were Dave Pelzer's declaration of independence to his mother, and they represented the ultimate act of self-reliance. Dave's father never intervened as his mother abused him with shocking brutality. But even after he was rescued, his life remained haunted by memories of his years as the bruised, cowering "It"...
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"As a teen, Anna Qu is sent by her mother to work in her family's garment factory in Queens. At home, she is treated as a maid and suffers punishment for doing her homework at night. Her mother wants to teach her a lesson: she is Chinese, not American, and such is their tough path in their new country. But instead of acquiescing, Qu alerts the Office of Children and Family Services, an act with consequences that impact the rest of her life. Nearly...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"An unforgettable memoir by an award-winning poet about being kidnapped from his Black father and raised by his white supremacist grandparents. When Shane McCrae was three years old, his grandparents kidnapped him and took him to suburban Texas. His mom was white and his dad was Black, and to hide his Blackness from him, his maternal grandparents stole him from his father. In the years that followed, they manipulated and controlled him, refusing to...
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