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Pub. Date
2017 ,2013, ©2011.
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"Sir Alfred has a terrible secret. A secret that should never ever be kept. But who will poor little sir Alfred tell? Who can he trust? This book was written to provide children with essential skills in self-protection, and to encourage them to always speak up."--Page 4 of cover.
"This book was written to provide children with essential skills in self-protection, and to encourage them to always speak up. We recommend that children be read this story...
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Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"The crucial skills taught in this book will help children to protect their bodies from inappropriate touch. Children will be empowered to say in a strong and clear voice, "This is my body! What I say goes!" Through age-appropriate illustrations and engaging text this book, written by the author of 'No Means No!' and 'Some Secrets Should Never Be Kept', will teach children the following crucial and empowering skills in personal body safety: - identifying...
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"An honorable Irish priest ... finds the church collapsing around him at a pivotal moment in its history. Propelled into the priesthood by a family tragedy, Odran Yates is full of hope and ambition. When he arrives at Clonliffe Seminary in the 1970s, it is a time in Ireland when priests are highly respected, and Odran believes that he is pledging his life to 'the good.' Forty years later, Odran's devotion is caught in revelations that shatter the...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"A STORY OF REDEMPTION AND FORGIVENESS"'NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW For 50 years, Stephanie Plymale kept her past a fiercely guarded secret. No one outside her immediate family would have guessed that her childhood was fraught with every imaginable hardship: a mentally ill mother who was in and out of jails and psych wards throughout Stephanie's formative years, neglect, hunger, poverty, homelessness, truancy, foster homes, a harrowing lack of medical...
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Pub. Date
2023
Description
"Sexual abuse is the most significant physical and mental health risk that children face. We can do so much to prevent it by gathering our resources and using the power of two: the parent and the teacher. The purpose of this book is to empower parents and teachers with resources, tools, and helpful real-life tips to help prevent child sexual abuse. This book will take the fear out of sexual-abuse prevention and make it approachable for parents and...
90) Perjury
Author
Pub. Date
c1998
Description
Lawyer Jack Brenner is handling a perjury case he thinks he can't win, but when his client tells him that she lied to protect her daughter from her father's sexual abuse, Jack knows that he has to find a way to set her free, or her daughter's life may be ruined.
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Series
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
Sara Sue tells little Pearlie what to do if someone tries to touch her in a bad way. An award-winning author steps into troubled waters writing books for children instructing them how to respond if a sexual predator makes an advance. The predator can be another child, a family friend, an older sibling, a church leader, or another relative. This is the second in the series of books addressing the subject of children dealing with sexual predators in...
92) Sam speaks out
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Series
Pub. Date
c2002.
Description
Sam learns that some secrets should be shared when he finds himself uncomfortable with how a neighbor is behaving.
97) Spotlight
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
It tells the riveting true story of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe investigation that would rock the city and cause a crisis in one of the world's oldest and most trusted institutions. When the newspaper's tenacious "Spotlight" teams of reporters delve into allegations of abuse in the Catholic Church, their year-long investigation uncovers a decades-long cover-up at the highest levels of Boston's religious, legal, and government establishment....
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Pub. Date
©2016.
Description
"She was only four years old when she was sold into the sex trade. White picket fences and steepled churches all guarded secrets that were not ever supposed to be told. In kindergarten, she began praying every night that Jesus would let her die. In second grade, she sat in church on a Sunday morning swinging her feet from a wooden pew behind the man who had paid to rape her the night before. Her perpetrators were from all walks of life. An engineer,...