Charm & strange by Kuehn, Stephanie 

BTSB Prebound(St. Martin's Griffin, 2013)

BTSB #: 534100 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   
AR: 4.1 UG RC: 4.3 9-12

Genres: General Fiction

Subjects: Psychological abuse - Fiction Mental illness - Fiction Sexual abuse - Fiction

Summary: A lonely teenager exiled to a remote Vermont boarding school in the wake of a family tragedy must either surrender his sanity to the wild wolves inside his mind or learn that surviving means more than not dying.

Jane Anonymous : a novel by Stolarz, Laurie Faria 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2020)

BTSB #: P08033 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   


Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Kidnapping - Fiction Psychological abuse - Fiction Survival skills - Fiction Memory - Fiction Family life - Fiction

Summary: In chapters alternating between "then" and "now," seventeen-year-old Jane Anonymous chronicles the events leading up to her abduction and seven-month captivity and her painful return to family and friends.

Light jar by Thompson, Lisa 

BTSB Prebound(Scholastic Press, 2019)

BTSB #: 856034 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.4 MG RC: 4.8 3-5 Lexile: 660 HL

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Mother-son relationship - Fiction Stepfathers - Fiction Psychological abuse - Fiction Survival skills - Fiction Imaginary playmates - Fiction Friendship - Fiction Great Britain - Fiction

Summary: Nate and his mother are escaping from his emotionally abusive step-father, Gary, but the run-down and abandoned cottage in the woods that his mother takes them to does not seem like much of a refuge; but when his mother goes off to buy provisions and does not come back Nate is left alone (except for his imaginary friend Sam) and afraid--until a mysterious girl trying to solve the clues of a long-ago treasure hunt turns up.

Road to after by Lowell, Rebekah 

BTSB Prebound(Penguin, 2022)

BTSB #: 589168 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 4.4 MG

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Novels in verse Survival skills - Fiction Psychological abuse - Fiction Psychotherapy - Fiction Family life - Fiction

Summary: Eleven-year-old Lacey rediscovers life and the soothing power of nature and art after she, her little sister, and mom escape from their controlling and abusive father.

Trigger by Griffin, N. 

Paperback(Atheneum, 2022)

BTSB #: 402117 Temp OS

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   
Lexile: 600 HL

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Psychological abuse - Fiction Father-daughter relationship - Fiction Survival skills - Fiction Abnormal psychology - Fiction Mental illness - Fiction

Summary: Didi's father is constantly pressuring her to do better: win at chess, run faster every day, shoot better, hunt better or go hungry; she is not allowed friends, or time off or any pleasures; he always reminds her that they have to be prepared to fight the rest of the world--but what he never tells her is that when she is the best he plans to hunt her.