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1) Back roads
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Harley Altmyer, left to raise his three younger sisters when his once-devoted mother is sent to prison, is struggling along just fine until he meets and becomes obsessed with the sexy, melancholic mother of two who lives down the road.
2) Gossamer
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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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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Tears tell truths. Heal your heart.
Feeling angry, depressed or traumatized? There are so many reasons why you should look for the gift buried within your pain. If you need some help, look no further than this book.
Children cannot choose their parents. Unfortunately, many individuals grow up suffering the life-shaping adversities of having emotionally immature, neglectful parents. With wisdom and compassion, Cassandra Gaisford, an extremely experienced...
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Child sexual abuse (CSA) is an insidious crime that can destroy the lives of innocent children and leave their families devastated. The topic of child sexual abuse is, at best, a difficult subject to discuss and at worst, a horrifying one. Child sexual abuse has been defined as: "Child sexual abuse involves any sexual activity with a child where consent is not or cannot be given. This includes sexual contact that is accomplished by force or threat...
6) Groomed
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It is estimated that 1 in every 6 boys will experience a sexual encounter with an adult at some point in their lives before they reach the age of consent. In this day and age, many adults find this topic unsettling and will often circumvent the issue even if they remotely suspect that some form of abuse may be occurring.
Parents, regardless of intent, have a tendency to blame the victim, which further perpetuate feelings of guilt and shame in the...
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Things are beginning to get out of hand when Lunye decided to run away. She didn't think that running from her mother would take her to a place that has no rules, no love or trust. Read how Lunye finds her way to a life she wasn't prepared for.... Run Lunye! Run Girl Run!
8) Jump Rope
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Meet Harry. Harry is an angel, a naughty angel. Harry is stuck on earth. Harry is okay being stuck on earth because of his sweet girl. Harry’s sweet girl has had quite the life; and Harry has witnessed everything since she was born: abuse, love, violence, sacrifice. If you were to ask Harry how he would describe his sweet girl, he would say, My sweet girl is strong, confident, humble, determined, and loyal.
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Mareva is about to have her seventy-eighth birthday. She resides in a senior living facility and sits in her room all alone, looking out at the beautiful blue sky with its puffy white clouds and the beautiful, majestic mountains. As she sits quietly in her chair, memories and emotions are beginning to appear before her. She is seeing a very sad and fearful little girl, knowing this is the little girl of her own childhood. The memories are very clear,...
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At the age of six, living in New York, she was the third of six children, born to a woman who had allowed drugs and alcohol to rule her life. The child was placed for adoption, by the Department of Children and Families.
She was brought to Florida at the age of nine, with only a few memories of her life before foster care. Two and a half years later, the adoption failed and the little girl was deserted.
Our fourth foster child came into our lives,...
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This author tells the true story of his younger life of physical abuse and extreme mental abuse that was imposed upon him by an unstable stepdad on a daily basis.
In this book, the author shares raw events from his abuse that occurred when he was ten-years-old to about fifteen-years-old, and the only safe place he could sometimes escape to was his grandma's house and the local church, whenever he was allowed to attend.
One day, he met a total stranger...
12) Caperucita roja
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Español
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El clásico cuento de Caperucita Roja es rescatado desde su versión original del siglo XVII para traerlo al presente en una nueva clave de lectura y de propuesta visual. Lo clásico y lo moderno conviven en esta edición como provocación para que este cuento sea releído desde la realidad actual y desde la perspectiva del abuso. Sí, el abuso del que tantos niños son víctimas tanto dentro como fuera del ambiente familiar, y que nos hiere como...
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Point Last Seen is an intensely personal work. This is a true story of one woman's odyssey through three complex issues of childhood sexual abuse, domestic violence and mental illness. All too often we hear or read horrific stories of children being abducted by pedophiles and shudder at the thought of what these innocent victims must have experienced. Rarely, if ever, do we hear how the terrifying experiences affect these victims as they journey through...
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When Maryam encounters a stranger and feels uncomfortable, she relies on her intuition and logical thinking to protect herself. Her experience leads her to an interesting discussion with her parents, during which, her curious mind comes up with many questions about different possible situations where she may encounter strangers.
15) A Childhood in God's Arms: Get in Touch with Incest and HOW TO GET PAST THE PAIN A Self-Help Book
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I chose the title A Childhood in God's Arms because, throughout my life, my father hurt me. And God gave me a vision of Him picking me up and setting me on His lap as a child who was being abused. I laid my head against His chest, and there were tears falling down His cheeks while He held me in His arms.
16) Freedom Saoirse
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FREEDOM Saoirse traces the author's life from her early years growing up impoverished in Galway, Ireland, in an emotionally limited home, into the misunderstood heaviness she carried from years-long abuse by an uncle, and the subsequent addictions and alcoholism that followed the abuse. She thought a move to America would be an escape from these secrets, but she discovered it was all coming with her anyway. In a sudden revelation, she then embarked...
17) Dear Mr Ted
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This is the complete Dear Teddy Series. Dear Mr. Ted, contains all four books.
Dear Teddy Book One - Little boy little boy, Curled in a ball.
I know your secrets,I know them allI write in my journal as much as I can. I talk to Mr. Ted. He is my only friend. He understands when the bad man comes. He holds my hand when I have nightmares and my mummy doesn't hear me cry. Mr. Ted doesn't tell. He won't say when my daddy hurts me. He keeps my secrets...
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This moving and simply stated true story takes you along Cecilia's journey from child abuse, as she moves through and past her violent upbringing. She discovers her ability to imagine away the pain from her past in order to cope with the traumatic memories that were holding her back from truly living. Cecilia learns the power of forgiveness in order to release herself from pent up toxicity, and the sharing of her story with her abusive father leads...
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From an early age we are taught to respect and trust police. Most of us do. But today we watch the evening news or read that another policeman has molested a child, or was caught with child pornography. We begin to question our reason to trust. How is the molestation or the sexual abuse of children to be anticipated and stopped? At the age of seventy-two I believe I have found answers to the questions: who molests children, where and when, and how...
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This book is about the courage to overcome childhood neglect and the fears of child abuse to find a way to overcome pain and make another world so safe and far from the discomfort of childhood abuse. Dive headlong into a made-up world of love and laughter-a world of poetry and endless beauty besides.
A book full of beautiful poems to brighten people's lives.
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