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

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Michael et Christy sont allEs au bal, ils ont obtenu leur diplOme, et Michael a remportE les Epreuves de sElection de l'USATF. Avec l'UniversitE d'Oxford qui se profile A l'horizon, son avenir est prometteur et il croit que la vie a repris son cours normal aprEs le sauvetage de Christy d'un de ses agresseurs du passE - il ne pourrait pas avoir plus tort.

Christy a EtE libErE d'une vie d'esclavage depuis un an et a fait de remarquables progrEs, en grande partie grAce A l'amour qu'il a trouvE auprEs de Michael. Mais le rEcent procEs d'un...

When Naomi Jensen is kidnapped, it takes her parents two days to realize she's missing. Escape isn't high on her list of priorities when all she has to return to is an abusive boyfriend and parents who never paid much attention to her. For the first time in her life she's part of a family--even if it is a family of criminals. But she's still a captive. In a desperate attempt to regain some control in her life, Naomi embarks on a dangerous plan to make one of her kidnappers think she's falling in love with him. The plan works too well, and when faced with the chance to escape, Naomi isn't...

Moving, wholly involving, original, and emotionally true, You Don't Know Me is a multilayered young adult novel that presents a winning portrait of an understandably angst-ridden adolescent.

John ("My father named me after a toilet ") wrestles with the certainty that no one really knows him -- not in his miserable home, and certainly not at school. It's true that no one can guess his hidden thoughts, which are hilarious, razor-sharp observations about lust, love, tubas, algebra, everything. And then there's his home: his father ran off years ago, so he's being raised...

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In If You Find Me by Emily Murdoch, a broken-down camper hidden deep in a national forest is the only home fifteen year-old Carey can remember. The trees keep guard over her threadbare existence; the one bright spot is Carey's younger sister, Jenessa, who depends on Carey for her very survival. All they have is each other, as their mentally ill mother comes and goes with greater frequency. Until that one fateful day their mother has disappeared for good, and two strangers...

Fans of Jay Bennett and S.E. Hinton will enjoy Once Brothers, award-winning author P.D. Workman's poignant and powerful account of three urban teens struggling to find a place to belong inside and outside youth gangs. Their uncompromising, interconnecting stories of poverty, violence, and addiction will remind readers of all ages to cherish their families and friendships.

Jacob, fifteen and a loner, never thought he'd get mixed up with a gang.

Deke, older now, had sought the gang out for protection when he had no family of his own to rely upon.

And Sammy, only ten,...