Books
Abused, L.L. Bartlett and Lorraine Bartlett
A Child Called It, Dave Pelzer
An Invisible Thread: The True Story of an 11-Year-Old Panhandler, a Busy Sales Executive, and an Unlikely Meeting with Destiny, Laura Schroff and Alex Tresniowski
A Piece of Cake, Cupcake Brown
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Novel by Betty Smith
Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration, Emily Bazelon
Close up, Szabina Dudevszky
Crank, Ellen Hopkins
Damaged, Cathy Glass
Do Father’s Matter, Paul Raeburn
Educated: A Memoir, Tara Westover
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, Matthew Desmond
Finding Anna, Trish Kaye Lleone and Doris Parker Roberts
Glass, Ellen Hopkins
Growing up with a Schizophrenic Mother, Margaret, J. Brown
Healing the Incest Wound, Christine A. Courtois
Hear These Voices, Anthony Allison
Impulse, Ellen Hopkins
In Their Own Voices, Rita James Simon
Loud in the House of Myself, Stacy Pershall
No Such Thing as a Bad Kid, Charles D. Appelstein
One Kid at a Time, Jake Dekker
One Small Boat, Kathy Harrison
Orphan Train, Christina Baker Kline
Stop Crying, Kooper Salmo
Tell me everything: the story of a private investigation, Erika Krouse
That Mean Old Yesterday, Stacey Patton
The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog, Bruce D. Perry and Maia Szalavitz
The Deepest Well, Nadine Burke Harris
The Foster Parenting Toolbox, Kim Phagan-Hansel
The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls
The Lost Children of Wilder, Nina Bernstein
Three Little Words, Ashley Rhodes-Courter
To the End of June, Cris Beam
Invisible Child, Amanda Elliott
LGBTQ Books
Non-fiction: https://www.charisbooksandmore.com/glbtq-youth
Fiction: https://www.abebooks.com/books/features/pride/30-LGBT-YA-books/
For Parents: https://bookriot.com/books-for-parents-of-lgbt-kids/
For Children: https://www.readbrightly.com/9-great-lgbtq-books-kids/
For educators: https://libguides.spsd.org/lgbtqeducation/educatorbooks
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