Kategoria BISAC: Juvenile Fiction >> Social Themes - Physical & Emotional Abuse (see also Social Themes - Sexual

Robbie s dad has always been hard on Robbie and his brothers, but when their mom dies on Robbie s sixteenth birthday, he becomes downright abusive. Robbie doesn't understand why his dad is so mean to him or why his brothers resent him for their mom's accident, but he desperately tries to hide the bruises. On top of that, after his dad's horse training jobs run out, he moves them to Colorado to their uncle's ranch in the mountains.

At Uncle Caleb's cabin, Robbie meets Sam, a boy whose family also lives on the property. Finally he has a real friend who shares his love of horses, but Sam...

The Story: Soraya dreams of the life she once knew: a loving mother, school, hope for the future. But now that her mother has died, her father has re-married, and her step-mother treats her as a slave, she feels alone and invisible. Until one day when she meets a little girl named Anita, who courage and sense of justice could change the course of Soraya's life. Through this story the authors issue a challenge: Could you have this courage to change a life?

Story Behind the Story: Written by a team of young women served by the Restavek Freedom...

Eleve de terminale, Michael Sattler mene une vie de reve. C'est un athlete vedette accompli, il a de bons amis, et des parents qui l'aiment exactement comme il est. La seule chose qui manque dans sa vie c est un petit ami. C'est un probleme parce qu'il n'a avoue son homosexualite qu a ses parents et a son meilleur ami. Lorsqu il heurte accidentellement Christy Castle a l'ecole, sa vie change d'une facon qu'il n'aurait jamais pu imaginer. Christy est l'homme de ses reves: intelligent, beau, et sexy. Cependant, rien n'aurait pu preparer Michael a ce qu entrainerait le fait d etre le petit...

At age four, Young Ju moves with her parents from Korea to Southern California. She has always imagined America would be like heaven: easy, blissful, and full of riches. But when her family arrives, she finds it to be the opposite. With a stubborn language barrier and cultural dissimilarities, not only is it impossible to make...

The Vicious, Ugly Cycle

Throughout our lifetime, each of us contributes to our own environment by the choices we make. We choose our actions, our words, and our deeds---all of which help to mold and shape not only our world, but the world of our kids and grandkids. If we all choose wisely, and continually and consistently put our best foot forward, there would never be a cause or a reason to write a book like this one. We would all mind our behavior behind closed doors so that a "Joey" could never, ever emerge from behind those closed doors. Love and kindness can be caught...

Danny is frightened of his dad. Every night he goes to bed and pretends to be asleep. He listens to his dad mistreating his mum. Danny thinks his life is normal until he goes on a sleepover at his best friend Alex's house. Alex's dad is kind and fun to be with, and Danny feels happy.

Danny wishes his dad could be more like Alex's dad.

But what can he do?

Brave Danny is about a small boy who makes a difference by being brave enough to speak up.