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122) Stranger danger
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Explains why it is necessary to be careful around strangers and offers advice on ways to stay safe.
123) My broken pieces: mending my soul through faith, family, and the love of my sister, Jenni Rivera
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Growing up as the youngest Rivera, Rosie was surrounded by unconditional love, support, and affection. There was nothing that her family wouldnt do for her, especially her sister Jenni, who was the most important person in the world to Rosie. With her strong will and a solid foundation, Rosie was set to conquer the world. Life would take a drastic turn when Rivera was scarred by sexual abuse within her family at a very young age. Living in fear and...
Author
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
Josef Fritzl, 73 yr. old Austrian retired engineer, and his wife, Rosemarie, and their family, seemed to be living a normal life.One daughter, Elisabeth, had mysteriously disappeared but only Josef knew the truth about her disappearance. Three of Elisabeth's children showed up at their door and they raised them as their own. For 27 years, Josef had imprisoned Elisabeth in his man-made dungeon, where she gave birth to 7 of his children. In 2008,...
127) The Beggars' Ride
Author
Pub. Date
c1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Twelve-year-old Clare flees an unhappy home life and tries to survive on the streets of Atlantic City with a small gang of homeless kids, each of whom has his own secret reason for distrusting society.
128) Friction
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Description
When a new girl at the private school Alex attends starts rumors about Alex's favorite teacher, Alex and her eighth-grade classmates are not sure how to act around him or with each other.
131) Into the dark
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Karen Rose returns with a new thriller in her chilling Cincinnati series. Michael Rowland is not your typical teenager. Deaf from birth, he's always looked out for his five-year-old brother, Joshua. When his stepfather comes after Joshua, Michael takes the child and runs. He's determined to protect his brother at all costs, even if that means making himself vulnerable to a danger he can't hear coming. And the danger...
Author
Pub. Date
c2013.
Description
A missing child, a buried tin of coins, and a terrible secret -- these lie at the heart of Muriel Macleod's powerful first novel set deep in the back country of early-20th-century Louisiana, where lawlessness still reigns and the voodoo curses and charms of the old ways hold sway. Here eight-year-old Arletta lives with her family in an isolated shack in the woods. Sometimes she sees the white men walking down the track toward her home and knows to...
134) Thread of deceit
Author
Series
Haven series (Catherine Palmer) volume 2
Pub. Date
2008
Description
Former Marine Sam Hawke, who runs an inner-city youth center, and newspaper reporter Ana Burns vow to protect Flora, a troubled little girl, from a powerful predator who is determined to destroy them all.
136) Open secrets
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"The #MeToo movement has revealed the prevalence of sexual assault in society, especially as committed by powerful men. But it is an issue that also affects the lives of teen girls. This book tells the story of seventeen year-old Ana Santos, who has ambitions to make it big in music and signs a contract with the owner of a music café without knowing there are sexual strings attached. It looks at the darker side of the music industry, including sexual...
Author
Series
Steel brothers saga volume 8
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Ryan Steel, his world recently upended by an earth-shattering secret, now faces yet another potential revelation surrounding the Steel family mystery. He no longer fully trusts his siblings or the woman he loves. He's alone --- alone and terrified and immersed in a conundrum that becomes more twisted each day. Ruby Lee loves Ryan and desperately wants to help him. She'll do whatever she must to see him through this troubling time, but her own shrouded...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
In this beautiful picture book, Body Safety Book for Kids by Tim, Tim is a young boy who learns how to overcome the struggle of body safety and confidence when other children at school invade his personal space. Learn with Tim as he shows how to recognize when he feels unsafe and uncomfortable, and how he overcomes his own body safety challenges by himself and through finding help from his safety circle.
Author
Pub. Date
c1999
Description
The author describes twenty-four distinct personalities and recounts memories of abuse that had been kept secret from him all his life. "West offers a poignant account of his efforts to understand the workings of his fragmented mind and to heal his damaged spirit ... "--Dust jcket.