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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
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author, a novel about the power of family to harm--and to heal. Within the walls of a tasteful, perfectly kept house in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains, young Zane Bigelow feels like a prisoner of war. Strangers--and even Zane's own aunt across the lake--see his parents as a successful surgeon and his stylish wife, making appearances at their children's ballet recitals and baseball games. Zane and his...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl, prays every day for beauty. Mocked by other children for the dark skin, curly hair, and brown eyes that set her apart, she yearns for normalcy, for the blond hair and blue eyes that she believes will allow her to finally fit in. Yet as her dream grows more fervent, her life slowly starts to disintegrate in the face of adversity and strife. A powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity, Toni...
3) Child abuse
Author
Series
Publisher
Crabtree Publishing Company
Pub. Date
©2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This accessible and informative book examines the highly-charged issues of child maltreatment, including physical, emotional, and sexual abuse and neglect. Sensitively written by a child psychologist, Child Abuse discusses disclosure and feeling safe, and explains how abuse and neglect affects children and adults.
4) Bruiser
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Inexplicable events start to occur when sixteen-year-old twins Tennyson and Bront b͡efriend a troubled and misunderstood outcast, aptly nicknamed Bruiser, and his little brother, Cody.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Brilliant, heartbreaking, tender, and highly original - poet Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a sweeping and shattering portrait of a family, and a testament to the redemptive power of storytelling. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born--a history whose epicenter is rooted in...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis' parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there's no window. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special talents - telekinesis and telepathy - who got to this place the same...
Author
Series
Da hao shi guang volume 31
Publisher
Ri yue wen hua chu ban gu fen you xian gong si
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
中文(繁體)
10) Darker
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
After being rejected by Anastasia Steele, Christian Grey attempts to regain her trust while also dealing with the consequences of his past sexual relationships.
11) Orbiting Jupiter
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Description
Joseph was a father at thirteen, but has never seen his daughter, Jupiter. He has spent time in a juvenile facility, and now is with a foster family on a farm in rural Maine. Damaged and withdrawn, Joseph meets twelve-year-old Jack, Together they discover the true meaning of family and the sacrifices it requires when Joseph decides to find his baby at any cost.
12) A list of cages
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Adam,a high school senior, rescues Julian, a freshman, from an abusive situation"--
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"At the dawn of the twentieth century, a bright new age for children appeared on the horizon, with progress on ending child labor, providing public education, ensuring food and drug safety, combating abuse and neglect, and creating a juvenile justice system. But a hundred years on, the promised light has not arrived. Today, more than eleven million American children live in poverty and more than four million lack health insurance. Each year, we prosecute...
Author
Publisher
Nightfire
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"Catriona Ward's The Last House on Needless Street is a shocking and immersive read perfect for fans of Gone Girl and The Haunting of Hill House. "The new face of literary dark fiction." -Sarah Pinborough, New York Times bestselling author of Behind Her Eyes "The buzz...is real. I've read it and was blown away. It's a true nerve-shredder that keeps its mind-blowing secrets to the very end." -Stephen King In a boarded-up house on a dead-end street...
Author
Series
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"The forbidden love that blossomed when Cathy and Christopher were held captive in Foxworth Hall is one the Dollanganger family's darkest secrets. Now, with three grown children and even a new last name, the pair seem to have outlived a twisted legacy. But on their son Bart's twenty-fifth birthday, when the spiteful and disturbed young man claims his rightful inheritance, the full, shattering truth of their tainted past will be revealed at Foxworth...
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
After a social worker alerts him to a racket in child abuse, Batman goes to war. He flies to Udon Khai in Southeast Asia and stirs up a revolution to destroy an international ring enslaving children for sex. By the author of Footsteps of the Hawk.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Ezra Ahern wakes up one day to find his older sister, Bea, gone. No note, no sign, nothing but an email address hidden somewhere only he would find it. Ezra never expected to be left behind with their abusive stepfather and their neglectful mother. How is he supposed to navigate life without Bea? Bea Ahern already knew she needed to get as far away from home as possible. But a message in her inbox changes everything, and she finds herself alone in...
Author
Publisher
The Mysterious Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"As a child, Abby had the same recurring nightmare night after night, in which she wandered through a field ridden with human skulls and bones. Now an adult, Abby thinks she's outgrown her demons until, the evening before her wedding, the terrible dream returns, forcing her to confront the dark secrets from her past that she has kept from her new husband, Willem. The following day--less than 24 hours after exchanging vows--Abby steps out into traffic....
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Emma Averell loves her life--her high-powered legal career, her two beautiful children, and her wonderful stay-at-home husband--but it wasn't always so perfect. When she was just five years old, Emma and her older sister went into foster care because of a horrific incident with their mother. Her sister can remember a time when their mother was loving and "normal," but Emma can only remember her as one thing--a monster. And that monster emerged right...
20) Gossamer
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
While learning to bestow dreams, a young dream giver tries to save an eight-year-old boy from the effects of both his abusive past and the nightmares inflicted on him by the frightening Sinisteeds.
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