Runaway
When sixteen-year-old Emerson Watts learns the truth about Nikki, the teen supermodel into whose body Emerson's brain was transplanted, she finds that there is only one person to turn to for help--especially since her loved ones seem to be furious with her.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 22
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 810
subjects: models (persons), transplantation of organs, tissues, etc, identity (psychology), new york (n.y.), runaways, parapsychology, extrasensory perception, mystery and detective stories, runaway teenagers, child abuse [X], immigrants, frontier and pioneer life, historical fiction, murder [X], psychokinesis, homicide [X], horror fiction, runaway children, homeless persons, orphans, survival skills, diaries
Counterfeit Son
When serial killer Hank Miller is killed in a shoot-out with police, his abused son Cameron adopts the identity of one of his father's victims in order to find a better life.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 10
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 830
subjects: mistaken identity, child abuse [X], serial murderers, murder [X], identity (psychology), homicide [X], serial killers
Looking For Jj
Three children walked away from the cottages on the edge of town toward Berwick Waters.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 23
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 730
subjects: murder [X], emotional problems, child abuse [X], identity, homicide [X], england, murderers, summer reading 12
Me & Emma
Carrie Parker, an imaginative eight-year-old, struggles to make the best of things for herself and her sister Emma after their father is murdered, and their mother marries an abusive drunk, but one particular act of cruelty pushes Carrie beyond what she can endure.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: sisters, murder [X], cruelty, homicide [X], family violence, child abuse [X], domestic violence, north carolina
Wild Boy
Snatched from the slums of Victorian London, a fur-covered boy lives in misery as a side-show freak at the mercy of a cruel and abusive showman, however, Wild Boy's furry exterior conceals a sharp mind--one he uses to solve a murder and build a better life.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 660
The Fact Of A Body
Memoir of Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich about her days as a young law student and the summer internship in Louisiana that confronted her with the case of convicted murderer Ricky Langley, whose face and voice triggered in her an emotional wish for his death.
364.15
year: 2017
copies: 10
call number/section: 364.15
lexile: 900
subjects: langley, ricky joseph, marzano-lesnevich, alexandria, child abuse [X], child molesters, family secrets, murderers, murder [X], women lawyers, homicide [X], offenses against the person, child sexual abuse, secrecy, criminal investigation, louisiana
If You Tell
"After more than a decade, when sisters Nikki, Sami, and Tori Knotek hear the word mom, it claws like an eagle's talons, triggering memories that have been their secret since childhood.
FIC
year: 2019
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: knotek, michelle, murder [X], victims of family violence, child abuse [X], true crime stories, sisters, psychological abuse, homicide [X], true crime / murder / serial killers, victims of domestic violence, washington (state), case studies
The Last House On Needless Street
"In a boarded-up house on a dead-end street at the edge of the wild Washington woods lives a family of three.
FIC
year: 2021
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: fathers and daughters, alcoholics, child abuse [X], family secrets, murder [X], sisters, father-daughter relationship, homicide [X], criminal investigation, thrillers (fiction), horror fiction