Sophie lived in constant fear of her father, who beat her up on a regular basis, until one day when the beating was so severe it sent her to the hospital.

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.

In rural Kentucky in 1955, Serilda Collins, single mother of four lively girls, discovers that her orphaned nephew is being subjected to brutality.

Although twelve-year-old Harper has always liked Moon, an abused, orphaned older boy, their friendship is tested by a discovery Harper makes when Moon joins the Army in 1943.

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.

Yanked out of his city life and plunked down in a small Montana town with his newly outed father and his father's boyfriend, seventeen-year-old Ben, angry and resentful about the changed circumstances of his life, begins to notice something is not quite right with the little boy next door and determines to figure out what is going on.

A novel describing the experiences of four children who are locked up in the attic of their grandmother's home after the death of their father.

A grouchy old man develops a strong bond with a troubled boy sent to live with him during the London Blitz, teaching him to read and write and encouraging a love of drawing, and finds himself fighting to keep him when his mother tries to take him back.