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Author
Publisher
Delacorte
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Bestselling novelist Danielle Steel takes us on a harrowing journey into the heart of America's hidden shame in a novel that explores the power of forgiveness, the dark side of childhood, and one woman's unbreakable spirit.
From her secret perch at the top of the stairs, Gabriella Harrison watches the guests arrive at her parents' lavish Manhattan townhouse. At seven, she knows she is an intruder in her parents' party, in her parents'...
From her secret perch at the top of the stairs, Gabriella Harrison watches the guests arrive at her parents' lavish Manhattan townhouse. At seven, she knows she is an intruder in her parents' party, in her parents'...
2) Gossamer
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
While learning to bestow dreams, a young dream giver tries to save an eight-year-old boy from the effects of both his abusive past and the nightmares inflicted on him by the frightening Sinisteeds.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"Jack, 12, tells the gripping story of Joseph, 14, who joins his family as a foster child. Damaged in prison, Joseph wants nothing more than to find his baby daughter, Jupiter, whom he has never seen. When Joseph has begun to believe he'll have a future, he is confronted by demons from his past that force a tragic sacrifice"--
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Language
English
Description
"I'm a fabulist by trade," warns Gabriel Noone, a late-night radio storyteller, as he begins to untangle the skeins of his tumultuous life: his crumbling ten-year love affair, his disaffection from his Southern father, his longtime weakness for ignoring reality. Gabriel's most sympathetic listener is Pete Lomax, a thirteen-year-old fan in Wisconsin whose own horrific past has left him wise and generous beyond his years. But when this virtual father-son...
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Series
Language
English
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Tim LaHaye called The Resurrection File-Craig Parshall's first novel-"one of the most fascinating books I have read in years." Parshall continues with Custody of the State, another legal thriller with tightly drawn characters, tense courtroom scenes, and the struggle of a man to bring his beliefs into real life.
Attorney Will Chambers reluctantly agrees to defend a young mother from Georgia and her farmer husband, suspected of committing the unthinkable...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Cajun police detective Dave Robicheaux knows the Sonnier family of New Iberia - their connections to the CIA, the mob, and to a former Klansman now running for state office. And he knows their past - as dark and murky as a night on the Louisiana bayou.
An assassination attempt and the death of a cop draw Robicheaux into the Sonniers' dangerous web of madness, murder and incest. But Robicheaux has devils of his own. And they've come out of hiding...
Author
Language
English
Description
Just before she dies, Diedre McAlister's mother gives her a fading photograph and tells her, ''Find yourself. Find your truth. Just don’t expect it to be what you thought it would be.'' Armed with these clues to her past, Diedre sets out to find her older sister, Amber, who was mysteriously sent away by her parents when Diedre was very young. Her search will take her across the country -- and into the path of someone who will do anything to stop...
8) Push
Author
Publisher
Vintage Contemporaries
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A black teenage girl, big, fat, unloved, has a father who rapes her and a jealous mother who screams abuse. For Precious, as she is called, hope appears when a courageous teacher, a young black woman, bullies, cajoles and inspires her to learn to read.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
The rigid moral codes held by devoted mid-19th-century preacher Samuel Lake are called into question when his 12-year-old daughter and his neighbors hide a young boy from his abusive father, a man who lashes out at the community when he learns about the deception.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1969 Alabama, eleven-year-old Dixie Dupree learns that the family she once believed was happy has deep fractures and records everything in her diary in this coming-of-age story about mothers and daughters, the guilt and pain that pass between generations, and the truths that are impossible to hide, especially from ourselves"--
11) Bruiser
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Inexplicable events start to occur when sixteen-year-old twins Tennyson and Brontë befriend a troubled and misunderstood outcast, aptly nicknamed Bruiser, and his little brother, Cody.
12) Racing the past
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
After the death of his abusive father, eleven-year-old Ricky tries to help his younger brother deal with his residual fears and discovers that running helps him deal with his own anger and the taunts of a bullying classmate.
13) Porcelain keys
Author
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Aria is a piano prodigy whose abusive father forbids her from going near a piano and whose only friend Thomas goes missing just as she braves everything to audition for Juilliard.
18) Hick
Author
Publisher
Unbridled Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Tired of going hungry while her parents get drunk and fight, 13-year-old Luli, who has just discovered the power of her sexuality, leaves Palmyra, Nebraska, for Las Vegas, Nevada, to find a "sugar daddy," and soon meets two grifters who use her while teaching her how to get by.
19) Not her daughter
Author
Language
English
Description
When a struggling mother loses her five-year-old daughter to a kidnapper, two women and one girl will find their loyalties and affections tested.
20) Forged by fire
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
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.
Coretta Scott King author award book : 1998
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