Abuse+Issues


 * Abuse Issues - Fiction for Teens** (updated 8/20/07)

//**I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This**// by Jacqueline Woodson 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.

//**The Rules of Survival**// by Nancy Werlin Seventeen-year-old Matthew recounts his attempts, starting at a young age, to free himself and his sisters from the grip of their emotionally and physically abusive mother.

Iggy Corso, who lives in city public housing, is caught physically and spiritually between good and bad when he is kicked out of high school, goes searching for his missing mother, and causes his friend to get involved with the same dangerous drug dealer who deals to his parents.
 * //Saint Iggy//** by K.L. Going

//**Speak**// by Laurie Halse Anderson