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"When parents fight, it can be very scary for kids, especially if one parent is hitting or hurting the other. Kids in this situation often don't know what to do, whether to tell someone or keep the abuse a secret. It is especially confusing because the child usually loves both parents and then has conflicting and confusing feelings about what is going on in their home. Kids living in an abusive home need to feel safe and loved, and they need to know...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Gaining courage from Joan of Arc, fourteen-year-old Mary Murphy navigates the waters of Chesapeake Bay in a submersible built with her friend, Kip, escaping the home where her violent father has just returned from prison. Includes facts about domestic violence and submersibles.
3) Taking sides
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
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At odds with his sister, Tina, fourteen, who says their father murdered their mother, Todd, fifteen, who claims it was self-defense, begins to lose faith in their father when he pressures Todd to get Tina to change her story, and being in separate foster homes only makes things harder.
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Poisoned Pen Press
Language
English
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Survival in the upscale Scottsdale art scene depends on how well a private eye does her footwork. At the age of four, private detective Lena Jones had been found lying unconscious by the side of an Arizona highway, a bullet robbing her of her memories. Now the scarred survivor of a dozen foster homes, Lena has vowed to find the truth about her origins, no matter how terrible that truth might be. In Desert Noir, the first of the Lena Jones mysteries,...
5) The fort
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
The morning after Hurricane Leo rips through the town of Canaan, residents awaken to widespread destruction -- power outages, downed branches, uprooted trees, broken windows and damaged roofs. Four eighth-grade friends -- Evan, Jason, Mitchell, and CJ -- meet to explore the devastation. The tight-knit group is dismayed to find that Evan has brought along a stray -- Ricky, who is new to their town and school, and doesn't have any friends yet. Ricky...
8) A safe place
Author
Publisher
A. Whitman
Pub. Date
1997
Physical Desc
[28] p. : ill. 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
To escape her father's abuse, Emily and her mother come to a shelter where they find a safe place to stay with other women and children in similar circumstances.
Author
Series
Publisher
Mason Crest Publishers
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st printing.
Physical Desc
128 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Home is supposed to be a safe place. But for too many, home is not a safe place at all. Those who have lived through domestic violence can teach us how to recognize the signs of abuse and what to do if abuse is happeninig.
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Lexile measure
AD 510L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"The young girl tells us that her mom's new friend is just like the big bad wolf. At first the wolf is sweet and kind to her mom, though the girl notices the wolf's cold eyes from the very beginning. When her mom arrives home late one day, the wolf suddenly hurls angry words and terrible names at her. From that day on her mother doesn't smile anymore. The girl is careful to clean her room and brush her teeth and do everything to keep the peace, but...
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Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Lexile measure
890L
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Aniyah and her little brother Noah find themselves living in foster care after the sudden disappearance of their mom, but with her life in disarray, Aniyah knows just one thing for sure--her mom is not gone forever.
12) Coyote queen
Author
Publisher
Harper Audio
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
[Retail edition].
Physical Desc
5 CDs (5 hr.) ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Fud feels trapped. She lives a precarious life in a cramped trailer with her mom and her mom's alcoholic ex-boxer boyfriend, Larry. Fud can see it's only a matter of time until Larry explodes again, even if her mom keeps on making excuses for his behavior. If only Fud could find a way to be as free as the coyotes roaming the Wyoming countryside: strong, smart, independent, and always willing to protect their own. When Larry comes home...
Author
Publisher
Disney * Hyperion
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
284 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Ever since her father died in a terrible accident, Maddy Gaines has worried a lot. She calls the police so often that she's on a first-name basis with the Sheriff. When a new boy moves to town, Maddy is convinced that he's not who he says he is-he's a boy who went missing six months ago. Maddy, her dog, her best friend, and her stepdad team up to see what he's hiding"--
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
186 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1945, Gordy's grandmother takes him and his family into her North Carolina home after his abusive father is arrested, and he just begins to respond to his grandmother's loving discipline when his father returns.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
154 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Although teachers, counselors, and social workers try to help, it is a stray cat that finally enables eleven-year-old Jordan to stand up to the father who has beaten her and her brother for years.
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
When her mother is arrested for killing Brooke's abusive father, Brooke endures a year of caring for her siblings while confronting the shadow of her family's violence and dysfunction.
18) Angryman
Author
Publisher
North-South
Pub. Date
2019.
Lexile measure
470L
Physical Desc
36 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
There's someone in the living room. It's Dad. It is Angryman. Boj's father can be very angry and violent. Boj calls this side of his father's personality "Angryman." When Angryman comes no one is safe. Until something powerful happens... Gro Dahle's astute text and Svein Nyhus's bold, evocative art capture the full range of emotions that descend upon a small family as they grapple with "Angryman." With an important message to children who experience...
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