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Articles about friendship and dating from the Teen Health & Wellness database.
Includes sections on date rape and abusive relationships. (You'll need a library card to access this database)
Articles about Family life from the Teen Health & Wellness database.
Includes a section on abuse and violence. (You'll need a library card to access this database)

Read It: Fiction

The 3 NBs of Julian Drew by James Deem, 1994.
The journals of a troubled fifteen-year-old boy who lives with his father and emotionally and physically abusive stepmother and her children after the death of his own mother years ago.
Almost A Hero by John Neufeld, 1995.
Twelve-year-old Ben Derby spends his spring break volunteering at a Santa Barbara day care center for homeless children.
Bruises by Anke de Vries, 1995.
While living in Holland, Michael meets Judith, who is frightened, bullied, and beaten by her mother and blames herself for the abuse she is enduring.
Don't You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey by Margaret Peterson, 1996.
In the journal she is keeping for English class, sixteen-year-old Tish chronicles the changes in her life when her abusive father returns home after a two-year absence.
Forged by Fire by Sharon M. Draper, 1997.
Teenage Gerald, who has spent years protecting his fragile half-sister from their abusive father, faces the prospect of one final confrontation before the problem can be solved.
Hate You by Graham McNamee, 1999.
Nursing hatred for the father who choked her and damaged her voice as a child, seventeen-year-old Alice writes songs she feels she cannot sing and seeks to reconcile her feelings for herself and her father.
Aimee : a novel by Mary Beth Miller, 2002.
After she is accused of playing a role in her best friend's death, a young woman battles depression, anger, guilt, loneliness, and the problems of her own family as well as those of the families of her old friends.
Hero by S.L. Rottman.1997.
After years of abuse from his mother and neglect from his father, ninth-grader Sean Parker is headed for trouble when he is sent to do community service at a farm owned by an old man who teaches Sean that he can take control of his own life.
I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This by Jacqueline Woodson, 1994.
Marie, the only black girl in the eighth grade willing to befriend her white classmate Lena, discovers that Lena's father is doing horrible things to her in private.
I was a Teenage Fairy by Francesca Lia Block, 1998.
A feisty, sexy fairy helps a young girl heal traumas of her past.
The Maestro: A Novel by Tim Wynne-Jones, 1996.
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.
My Father's Scar by Michael Cart, 1996.
As he enters into his first relationships as a gay man, a college freshman recalls the aching loneliness of life with his alcoholic physically abusive father in a community prejudiced against homosexuals.
Past Forgiving by Gloria Mikowitz, 1995.
Fifteen-year-old Alexandra finds that her boyfriend Cliff demands all her time, isolates her by his jealousy, and finally becomes physically abusive.
The Watcher by James Howe, 1997.
As she sits watching a seemingly perfect family and a handsome lifeguard on the beach, a lonely, troubled girl projects herself into the fantasy lives she has created for them.
When She Hollers by Cynthia Voigt, 1994.
Tish, a teenager who has been enduring abuse from her adoptive stepfather since she was a small child, finally decides she must do something to stop him.
When She Was Good by Norma Fox Mazer, 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.
Whispers Down the Lane by Beverly Lewis, 1994.
After being beaten by her father, Lissa, an eighth grade classmate, comes to Merry's house in the middle of the night, and Merry asks God and the family of her Amish friend, Rachel, to help her protect Lissa.

Read It: Non-Fiction

A safe place : a guidebook for living beyond sexual abuse by Jan Morrison
362.76 M8345s 2002
Child Abuse by Bryan J. Grapes
362.760973 C4361 2001
Child abuse by Henny H. Kim
362.760973 K5603c 2000
362.760973 C76271c 2000
Child abuse and neglect : examining the psychological components by Elizabeth Russell Connelly
362.760973 C76271c 2000
Child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church by Louise Gerdes
261.83272 C4371 2003
Crimes Against Children: Child Abuse and Neglect by Tracee de Hahn & Austin Sarat
362.760973 D3659c 2000
Everything you need to know about relationship violence by Katherine White
306.73 W5845e 2001
Megan's law : protection or privacy by Margie Druss Fodor
362.76720973 F6833m 2001
Teen torment : overcoming verbal abuse at home and at school by Patricia Evans
302.340835 Ev163t 2003