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PB ALL
Allison, Dorothy. Bastard out of Carolina. New York, N.Y. : Penguin, 1993. Ruth Ann Boatwright, a South Carolina bastard, tells her life with her family and the emotional and physical violence she experiences.
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PB AND
Anderson, Laurie Halse. Speak. New York : Farrar, c1999.
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PB AND
Andrews, V. C. (Virginia C.). Jade. New York, NY : Pocket
Books, c1999. After listening to Misty and Star tell their
stories in their therapy group, it is Jade's turn to reveal
her hidden past, and the shameful act that has haunted her
for years.
PB ATW
Atwood, Margaret Eleanor, 1939-. The edible woman. Toronto, ON
: McClelland & Stewart, 1989, c1969. A young woman, a
willing member of the consumer society, finds herself
identifying with things which are consumed.
BAU
Bauer, Marion Dane. Tangled butterfly. New York : Houghton
Mifflin/Clarion Books, c1980.
PB BEL
Bellow, Saul. Herzog. London : Penguin, 2001. Herzog is alone,
now that Madeleine has left him for his best friend.
Solitary, in a crumbling house which he shares with rats, he
is buffeted by a whirlwind of mental activity. People
rumoured that his mind had collapsed. But was it true?
Locked for days in the custody of his rambling memories,
Herzog scrawls frantic letters which he never mails. His
mind buzzes with conundrums and polemics, writing in a
spectacular intellectual labyrinth. Is he crazy, or is he a
genius?.
PB BEN
Bennett, Cherie. Life in the fat lane. New York : Bantam
Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers, 1999.
Sixteen-year-old Lara, winner of beauty pageants and
Homecoming Queen, is distressed and bewildered when she
starts gaining weight and becomes overweight.
BER
Berry, Liz. Mel. New York : Viking, 1991, c1988.
PB BRO
Brooks, Bruce. The moves make the man : a novel. 1st Harper
Trophy ed. New York, NY : HarperTrophy, 1987, c1984. A
black boy and an emotionally troubled white boy in North
Carolina form a precarious friendship.
PB DUN
Duncan, Lois, 1934-. The twisted window. New York : Bantam
Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers, [1991], c1987.
Tracy, a high school junior, becomes embroiled in the
problems of a strange boy, who asks her assistance in
"snatching" his half-sister from her father who has
allegedly kidnapped her.
FER
Ferguson, Alane. Overkill. New York ; Toronto : Bradbury :
Maxwell Macmillan, c1992.
FIN
Fine, Anne. The Tulip touch : a novel. 1st U.S. ed. Boston,
Mass. : Little, Brown, c1997. Natalie, who lives in the
large hotel managed by her father, has a dangerous
friendship with Tulip, the wildly uncontrollable girl on a
neighboring farm.
PB FLI
Flinn, Alexandra. Breathing underwater. 1st ed. New York :
HarperCollins, c2001. Sent to counseling for hitting his
girlfriend, Caitlin, and ordered to keep a journal,
sixteen-year-old Nick recounts his relationship with
Caitlin, examines his controlling behavior and anger, and
describes living with his abusive father.
PB GOO
Goobie, Beth, 1959-. Something girl. Victoria, BC ; Custer, WA
: Orca Book, 2005. Sophie lived in constant fear of her
father, who beat her up on a regular basis, until one day
when the beating was so severe it sent her to the hospital.
PB GOO
Goobie, Beth, 1959-. Who owns Kelly Paddik? Victoria, BC ;
Custer, WA : Orca Book, 2003. After attempting suicide,
Kelly Paddik is sent to a "secure facility," and as she
tries to find a way out, she has to come to terms with her
memories of abuse.
PB HAD
Haddix, Margaret Peterson. Don't you dare read this, Mrs.
Dunphrey. 1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed. New York : Aladdin
Paperbacks, 1997, c1996. In the journal she is keeping for
English class, sixteen-year-old Tish chronicles the changes
in her life when her abusive father abandons her and her
brother, and her mother follows him.
Kaslik, Ibi, 1973-. Skinny. Walker & Company,
2006. After the death of their father, two sisters struggle
with various issues, including their family history,
personal relationships, and an extreme eating disorder.
PB KES
Kesey, Ken. One flew over the cuckoo's nest. Harmondsworth,
Eng. ; New York : Penguin Books, 1990, c1962.
PB KON
Konigsburg, E. L. Silent to the bone. New York : Aladdin
Paperbacks : Simon Pulse, 2004, 2002, c2000. When he is
wrongly accused of gravely injuring his baby half-sister,
thirteen-year-old Branwell loses his power of speech and
only his friend Connor is able to reach him and uncover the
truth about what really happened.
PB LAM
Lamb, Wally. I know this much is true. 1st Regan Books/Harper
Perennial. New York, NY : Regan Books, 1999. For most of
his life Dominick Birdsey has been living in the shadow of
his schizophrenic identical twin, Thomas, but when Thomas
commits a violent act that affects both their lives,
Dominick decides to leave his home and search for his true
identity.
PB LAM
Lamb, Wally. She's come undone. New York : Pocket Books,
[1998], c1992. A series of tragedies, including the death
of her baby brother, her parent's divorce, her mother's
nervous breakdown, and her own rape at the age of thirteen,
leaves Dolores Price wounded both mentally and physically,
but she miraculously finds the strength to give herself one
more chance at life and love.
LEV
Levenkron, Steven. The best little girl in the world. Chicago :
Warner, c1978.
PB LYN
Lynch, Chris. Freewill. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins,
c2001. A teenager trying to recover from the tragic death
of his father and stepmother believes himself to be
responsible for the rash of teen suicides occurring in his
town.
PB MAZ
Mazer, Norma Fox, 1931-. When she was good. 1st ed. New York :
Arthur A. Levine Books, 1997. The death of her abusive,
manipulative older sister prompts seventeen-year-old Em to
remember their unpleasant life together, with their parents
and then later on their own.
PB MCC
McCormick, Patricia, 1956-. Cut. 1st ed. Asheville, N.C. :
Front Street, 2000. While confined to a mental hospital,
thirteen-year-old Callie slowly comes to understand some of
the reasons behind her self-mutilation, and gradually starts
to get better.
PB MIK
Mikaelsen, Ben, 1952-. Touching Spirit Bear. 1st ed. New York
: HarperCollins, c2001. After his anger erupts into
violence, fifteen year-old Cole, in order to avoid going to
prison, agrees to participate in a sentencing alternative
based on the Native American Circle Justice, and he is sent
to a remote Alaskan Island where an encounter with a huge
Spirit Bear changes his life.
PB NIX
Nixon, Joan Lowery. Don't scream. New York : Bantam Doubleday
Dell Books for Young Readers, [1997], c1996. When two new
guys come to her school, Jess thinks things are really
looking up, but she doesn't know their real identities or if
she can trust them.
NIX
Nixon, Joan Lowery. The specter. New York : Delacorte, c1982.
NOL
Nolan, Han. Dancing on the edge. San Diego : Harcourt Brace,
c1997.
PB OAT
Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-. Freaky green eyes. New York :
HarperTempest, c2003. Fourteen-year-old Frankie relates the
events of the year leading up to her mother's mysterious
disappearance and her own struggle to discover and accept
the truth about her parents' relationship.
PB PLU
Plum-Ucci, Carol, 1957-. What happened to Lani Garver. 1st
Harcourt pbk. ed. Orlando : Harcourt, 2004, c2002.
Sixteen-year-old Claire is unable to face her fears about a
recurrence of her leukemia, her eating disorder, her need to
fit in with the popular crowd on Hackett Island, and her
mother's alcoholism until the enigmatic Lani Garver helps
her get control of her life at the risk of his own.
RAB
Rabinowich, Ellen. Underneath I'm different. New York :
Delacorte, c1983.
PB RIN
Rinaldi, Ann. Or give me death : a novel of Patrick Henry's
family. Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt, c2003. With their father
away most of the time advocating independence for the
American colonies, the children of Patrick Henry try to
raise themselves, manage the family plantation, and care for
their mentally ill mother.
PB SKR
Skrypuch, Marsha Forchuk, 1954-. The hunger. Toronto : Dundurn
Group, c1999. Fifteen-year-old Paula's perfectionism drives
every facet of her life, from her marks in Grade 10 to the
pursuit of a "perfect body." A history project brings her
face to face with her grandmother's early life and, as she
delves deeper, she is disturbed to find eerie parallels
between her own struggles and what she learns of the past.
As Paula slowly destroys the very body she's trying to
perfect, her spirit is torn between settling for her
imperfect life or entering the shadowy mystery of her
grandmother's Armenian past. The shimmering Euphrates River
beckons her, but, as she soon discovers, there are many
things worse than imperfection.
PB TER
Terris, Susan. Nell's quilt. [S.l.] : Farrar, 1987.
616.8 VON
Vonnegut, Mark. The Eden express. New York : Praeger : Bantam,
c1975.
WES
Westall, Robert. The scarecrows. 1st American ed. New York :
Greenwillow Books, 1981.
PB WHI
White, Ellen Emerson. The road home. New York : Scholastic,
c1995. Rebecca, a young nurse stationed in Vietnam during
the war, must come to grips with her wartime experiences
once she returns home to the United States.
PB WYN
Wynne-Jones, Tim. The maestro. New York : Puffin Books, 1998.
Fleeing from his brutal father, fourteen-year-old Burl
arrives at the remote cabin of an eccentric genius who in
just one day changes the young man's life forever.
