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By Leigh, Anna[2021]., Juvenile, Lerner Publications Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to open Series Title: Gateway biographiesSummary Note: Explores the life and career of Olympic gymnast Aly Raisman. Includes a chronology, resources for further information, and color photographs.
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c2010., Heritage House Call No: NL B FON Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Theodore Fontaine lost his family and freedom just after his seventh birthday, when his parents were forced to leave him at an Indian residential school by order of the Roman Catholic Church and the Government of Canada. Twelve years later, he left school frozen at the emotional age of seven. He was confused, angry and conflicted, on a path of self-destruction. At age 29, he emerged from this blackness. By age 32, he had graduated from the Civil Engineering Program at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology and begun a journey of self-exploration and healing.
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2005., Warner Books Call No: 921 PELZER Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Table of contents Summary Note: A memoir from the brother of David J. Pelzer.
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-- Surviving a childhood of abusec2005., Warner Call No: MEMOIR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The author describes his childhood filled with nightly beatings and unspeakable abuse by his mother and how he found the courage to survive.
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p2001., Recorded Books Call No: PA 921 PELZER Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Dave Pelzer's story is the story of a child brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother: a mother who played torturous, unpredictable games -- games that left one of her three sons nearly dead. Dave had to learn how to play his mother's games in order to survive because she no longer considered him a son, but a slave, and no longer a boy but an 'it'.
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c1995., Health Communications Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Tells the story of a child's abuse at the hands of his alcoholic mother.
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c1995, Health Communications Call No: 92 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: David Pelzer, victim of one of the worst child abuse cases in the history of California, tells the story of how he survived his mother's brutality and triumphed over his past.
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1995., Health Communications Call No: 921 PELZER Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: David Pelzer, victim of one of the worst child abuse cases in the history of California, tells the story of how he survived his mother's brutality and triumphed over his past.
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c1995., Health Communications Call No: MEMOIR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: David Pelzer, victim of one of the worst child abuse cases in the history of California, tells the story of how he survived his mother's brutality and triumphed over his past.
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c1995., Health Communications Call No: 92 Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: David Pelzer, victim of one of the worst child abuse cases in the history of California, tells the story of how he survived his mother's brutality and triumphed over his past.
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c1995., Health Communications Call No: B Pelzer Availability:3 of 3 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: David Pelzer, victim of one of the worst child abuse cases in the history of California, tells the story of how he survived his mother's brutality and triumphed over his past.
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[2016], Pre-adolescent, Aladdin Call No: B Edition: Young readers ed., 1st Aladdin hardcover ed. 2016. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "At the age of 8, Reyna Grande made the dangerous and illegal trek across the border from Mexico to the United States, and discovered that the American Dream is much more complicated that it seemed"--Provided by publisher.
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2012., Atria Books Call No: Global Studies Edition: 1st Atria Books har Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Reyna Grande chronicles her life as an undocumented immigrant, from her border crossing at age nine, discussing her difficult relationship with her father, and other complications with her family during childhood. (Socio-Economic Diversity).
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Ã2011., Harper Perennial Call No: Global Studies Edition: 1st Harper Perennia Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The author, a survivor of the commercial sex industry, shares her personal story, and discusses her efforts to help other girls who are victims of sexual exploitation through her nonprofit organization GEMS, Girls Educational and Mentoring Services.
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2019., Drawn & Quarterly Call No: GN 951.9 GEN Edition: First edition, English edition. Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Grass is a powerful antiwar graphic novel, telling the life story of a Korean girl named Ok-sun Lee who was forced into sexual slavery for the Japanese Imperial Army during the Second World War--a disputed chapter in twentieth-century Asian history. Beginning in Lee's childhood, Grass shows the lead-up to the war from a child's vulnerable perspective, detailing how one person experienced the Japanese occupation and the widespread suffering it entailed for ordinary Koreans. Keum Suk Gendry-Kim emphasizes Lee's strength in overcoming the many forms of adversity she experienced. Grass is painted in a black ink that flows with lavish details of the beautiful fields and farmland of Korea and uses heavy brushwork on the somber interiors of Lee's memories"--Provided by the publisher.
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-- True story of a modern-day child slave[2014], Adolescent, Simon & Schuster BFYR Call No: B Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: An autobiography of Shyima Hall, who at the age of eight, was sold by her Eygptian parents into domestic slavery.
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-- True story of a modern-day child slave[2014], Adolescent, Simon & Schuster BFYR Call No: 921 HALL Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: An autobiography of Shyima Hall, who at the age of eight, was sold by her Eygptian parents into domestic slavery.
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-- True story of a modern-day child slave[2014], Adolescent, Simon & Schuster BFYR Call No: Global Studies Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: An autobiography of Shyima Hall, who at the age of eight, was sold by her Eygptian parents into domestic slavery.
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-- True story of a modern-day child slave[2014]., Simon & Schuster BFYR Call No: MEMOIR Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: An autobiography of Shyima Hall, who at the age of eight, was sold by her Eygptian parents into domestic slavery.
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c1998., Pre-adolescent, H. Holt and Co. Call No: B Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Click here to view Summary Note: An account of the former Pakistani child labor activist whose life and unexplained murder has brought to the attention of the world the evil of child bondage.
