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Small towns have big secrets. In New Hannah Cove, the lives of five teenage girls will be forever altered by one reckless decision. River should be Popularity’s poster child: he’s on the football team, and he lives in a mansion. The students of Covenant High, though, keep score of his anger issues, and treat him like an outsider. Except Brielle, who falls in love quickly with him. But when young love fades, a betrayal leads to tragedy and New Hannah Cove becomes a monster’s playground. An obsessed father bent on revenge targets the girls who bullied his son. He stalks them, learns their greatest fears, constructs a soundproofed shack, and kidnaps them one by one. He calls the shack “The Radical Redress,” a place where wrongs can be made right. He customizes their torture to their specific fears. There’s Brielle, who fears being lost. Sierra, the star pole vaulter and the only Black person in her family, fears dying at the hands of a racist police officer. Willow, the school journalist, questions whether River was truly bullied, and believes beauty brings acceptance. Eden, who is top in the class, dreams of becoming a scientist, but fears the dark. Her dad is a felon, and her family is made up of Pretenders. There’s also Sage. Unconnected to the tragedy at Covenant High, she already knows abuse: her fear is water. When the girls realize they’re not alone, they hatch a daring escape plan. Some are disfigured, some are homeless, and some are angry. In a town where no one suspects your kidnapper, they have to fight for their own survival. Not all of them come home. From the author of “Dance for Me,” “River’s Rowan” examines themes of abuse, racism and what determines who is a bully and who is a victim.

Small towns have big secrets. In New Hannah Cove, the lives of five teenage girls will be forever altered by one reckless decision. River should be Popularity’s poster child: he’s on the football team, and he lives in a mansion. The students of Covenant High, though, keep score of his anger issues, and treat him like an outsider. Except Brielle, who falls in love quickly with him. But when young love fades, a betrayal leads to tragedy and New Hannah Cove becomes a monster’s playground. An obsessed father bent on revenge targets the girls who bullied his son. He stalks them, learns their greatest fears, constructs a soundproofed shack, and kidnaps them one by one. He calls the shack “The Radical Redress,” a place where wrongs can be made right. He customizes their torture to their specific fears. There’s Brielle, who fears being lost. Sierra, the star pole vaulter and the only Black person in her family, fears dying at the hands of a racist police officer. Willow, the school journalist, questions whether River was truly bullied, and believes beauty brings acceptance. Eden, who is top in the class, dreams of becoming a scientist, but fears the dark. Her dad is a felon, and her family is made up of Pretenders. There’s also Sage. Unconnected to the tragedy at Covenant High, she already knows abuse: her fear is water. When the girls realize they’re not alone, they hatch a daring escape plan. Some are disfigured, some are homeless, and some are angry. In a town where no one suspects your kidnapper, they have to fight for their own survival. Not all of them come home. From the author of “Dance for Me,” “River’s Rowan” examines themes of abuse, racism and what determines who is a bully and who is a victim.

Behind the Iron Curtain live four very special children. Each of them born to women oppressed by the Communist regime, and each of them has special needs. There are the twins, Alina and Auner. Alina is sightless, but spirited. She fiercely longs to be independent and free, no matter the cost. Auner’s mission is to protect Alina; he’s loyal and a charming thief who happens to be without an arm and struggles with shrieking and flailing due to a bout with polio as a baby. Ekko is sullen and strategic. Ghosts chase him because his father tried to kill him: he makes a solemn promise to himself that, despite a deformed hand and a speech impediment, he will exact revenge. And then there’s Alizabet, the quietest of the group, yet the most creative. During their time in Romania’s worst, most abusive home “for the unsalvageables”, she regales them with stories of a magical place: a place where the animals talk, birds have healing powers, where you can ride on the back of majestic, mythical creatures and where, most of all, you’re safe. As they embark on a perilous, uncertain journey to escape the orphanage and find Taramul Viselor, they’ll find epic quests, a heartbreaking betrayal and the importance of believing in tomorrow.

Maelea is just an average eleven-year-old girl living in Anlong Veng, Cambodia. Her days consist of fishing in the Mekong River with her father, looking after her younger sister Srey, and cooking with her mother in their modest family hut. However, her routine life is suddenly disrupted when her younger sister becomes dangerously ill with dengue fever. Her father journeys to the city in search of help, and returns with a doctor – and a mysterious woman whom Maelea is told she will now work for, as a domestic servant. Maelea is promised a door to a better future, but soon finds herself trapped in a brothel. There, she endures unimaginable torture, isolation, and is forced to sell her body up to sixty times a night for two years – until one horrific act of terror becomes an unlikely saving grace. “Dance For Me” is an honest and compassionate look into child sex trafficking. it will make you angry; it will make you sad. But more than anything, it will inspire you to act for those who cannot.

Intense. Painful. Inspiring. This is a book that will rock you to your very core. Based on the true story of the author’s own traumatic childhood, “The Character” is 10-year-old Anna’s daily journal through an ordeal of horrifying sexual abuse – and her redeeming friendship with the mysterious storyteller named Ash. To read it is to bear witness to the plight of a helpless young girl, faced with unimaginable difficulties. The result is that you’ll find yourself growing with her; standing by her side through her suffering, and ultimately, sharing in that remarkable transformation that is both the only hope and the only salvation of the abuse victim: transcendence.

My name is Taya. I’m fifteen. If you’re reading this, it means you found me. I put down towels to help the mess. If I could do this so no one would know what happened, I would. But Mom needs to know I haven’t run away; she needs to know what’s happened. Staying alive just takes too much courage. You have to get up hoping for a good day when, in your heart of hearts, you know it’s going to be a day like all the rest. I’m just not that brave. Moving around, being bullied in the daytime and messed with at night, it just hurts too much. And with Dad coming home, this is the only way for me to be free now. I hope you’ll understand, I hope you’ll forgive me.

In my nightmare, I lay screaming on the floor, four years old, watching my father kill my mother. I won’t make another sound for fourteen years. Not when he chains me to the tree, not when I am kept inside a wooden box under the bed, not even when he tries to rid me of the evil spirits with rape. I have no voice. All I have are scars from the branding and a heart that shakes with fear. When Tully, the white and black mutt that’s been my only friend, is hurt protecting me, I can’t stand the thought of living with him under the tree by Mama, so I carry him to the big farmhouse from where I’ve stolen food. A doctor lives there. Cole’s house is a place where they make food pretty, windows are made of colored glass and horses are rescued. It’s a place where it’s safe to sleep. Here stories called fairy tales melt my heart, Tully chases chickens and I learn to read. But Cole’s past is marred by tragedy, too. When Cole learns who I really am, and can’t bear to see me, I must return to the gulley where Black Owl, the spirit only Daddy sees, demands my death. This is my story, and there is no one to save me except me. How do I find my voice in this place of ancient sorrow before it is too late?

One history, two heartbeats. From award-winning novelist Tiffini Johnson comes an intense and heart-breaking novel about how a home shapes the lives of its children forever. Holding Home is the story of eight-year-old Michael and his six-year-old sister Mary Beth. It is the story of domestic abuse, of our relationships with our siblings and of the ultimate cost of secrets.

From the acclaimed best-selling author of The Character and Dance For Me comes an unforgettable story of friendship, resilience and the staggering cost of stolen innocence. This is the story of Haven, a ten-year-old little girl and her eight -year- old sister, Poppy. They are inseparable, building forts, playing on the train tracks, hanging wishes from a beloved willow tree and rescuing birds. They are different, too. Haven is Daddy’s girl, a chilling term that hides the pain she is in. Currently surviving sexual abuse, she reads a library book about how dandelion oil can help all sorts of things (from dry skin to cancer). She gathers them and creates homemade oil, hoping to stop the ants crawling inside her, hoping to make whole the broken parts. Poppy is innocent, free from abuse, imaginative and even quietly defiant, decorating her space with My Little Pony creations and healing birds. When Haven realizes Poppy is in danger of also becoming “Daddy’s girl” she knows she has to take action and do something bold and daring. But her act of bravery is flawed: it will only save one of them.“… a striking example of art as redemption..” – G – a Storytimer review

“One girl’s epic story of child abuse survival.” Orphaned by a tragic act of violence, young Aria is shuffled amongst relatives before finding herself struggling to survive in a horrifyingly abusive home. Her only source of comfort is music and the memory of her mother singing. When one terrifying act robs her of the ability to sing, Aria embarks on a quest for a new life. Along the way, she’ll meet a joyful homeless man, a cowboy who works for free and others who will teach her what faith, family and song are really all about.

The landscape here is grey. There is no color: flowers don’t grow here; not even grass grows here. It is a barren, grey place in which the only signs of life are the dogs who bark and the Nazis who shout. This is Auschwitz. I do not have a name. I’m not sure how old I am, only that I am still young. My family is gone, but I remember them. I’ve seen and done things here, things that haunt me. The only way out is to become the ash that floats in the air; the only way out is through the chimneys. But I have made a friend. He is like a Shabbat candle; he gives me hope. He has a secret, a secret plan to make me smile in the midst of death, a way to see color again and to hear the whistling elephant. He is my way out.

“If it were possible, would you want another family?” Raised in an abusive and dangerous home, acting as virtual parent to a younger sister, isolated from any friends, Clayton Cunningham assumes Abrielle Britian’s answer would be a resounding yes. But when an old family secret is revealed through Abrielle’s drawings, and she’s forced to question her loyalties, her family and herself, he learns that the better question would be: do deep emotional wounds really heal?

My name is Jessie. I am eight years old. I am never touched. No pats on the head. No hand to hold when I cross the street. No hug when I am sick. One day, I broke a boy’s nose when he tried to touch me. Another time, my eyes leaked water when I watched a mother hold her little girl. I was here too, but nobody saw. This is my story. Are you ready?

Nazi Germany. Adolf Hitler. Concentration camps. In a world filled with uncertainty and war, a young girl’s life is turned upside down when she is suddenly sent to live with her aunt in occupied Poland. Trusting her instinct, Alyx decides to befriend a group of American soldiers in trouble and risks her life to protect them. Eventually, however, she is betrayed and sent to endure Auschwitz. This is her story of tragedy, loyalty and hope.