My name is Taya. I'm fifteen. If you're reading this, it means you found me. I put down towels to help the mess. If I could do this so no one would know what happened, I would. But Mom needs to know I haven't run away; she needs to know what's happened. Staying alive just takes too much courage. You have to get up hoping for a good day when, in your heart of hearts, you know it's going to be a day like all the rest. I'm just not that brave. Moving around, being bullied in the daytime and messed with at night, it just hurts too much. And with Dad coming home, this is the only way for me to be...

Nazi Germany. Adolf Hitler. Concentration camps. In a world filled with uncertainty and war, a young girl's life is turned upside down when she is suddenly sent to live with her aunt in occupied Poland. Trusting her instinct, Alyx decides to befriend a group of American soldiers in trouble and risks her life to protect them. Eventually, however, she is betrayed and sent to endure Auschwitz. This is her story of tragedy, loyalty and hope.

"If it were possible, would you want another family?" Raised in an abusive and dangerous home, acting as virtual parent to a younger sister, isolated from any friends, Clayton Cunningham assumes Abrielle Britian's answer would be a resounding yes. But when an old family secret is revealed through Abrielle's drawings, and she's forced to question her loyalties, her family and herself, he learns that the better question would be: do deep emotional wounds really heal?

My name is Jessie. I am eight years old. I have never been touched. No pats on the head. No bedtime hug. No hand to hold when I cross the street. This is my story. Are you ready?

One history, two heartbeats. From award-winning novelist Tiffini Johnson comes an intense and heart-breaking novel about how a home shapes the lives of its children forever. "Holding Home" is the story of eight-year-old Michael and his six-year-old sister Mary Beth. It is the story of domestic abuse, of our relationships with our siblings and of the ultimate cost of secrets.

Maelea is an average eleven-year-old living in Anlong Veng, Cambodia. Her days consist of fishing in the Mekong River with her father, watching her younger sister Srey, cooking with her mother and dancing joyfully throughout the hut. When her sister becomes ill with dengue fever and the family worries she will die, her father journeys to the city in search of help. He returns with a doctor and a mysterious woman whom he tells Maelea she will now work for as a domestic servant. Maelea is promised a door to a better future, including school, but finds herself trapped in a brothel instead. There...