Tiger's Child

Torey Hayden

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Paperback: 336 pages (2005)

Publisher: Harper Element

ISBN: 0007206976

This is a sequel to Torey's first book, "One Child" Torey is an educational psychologist and special-education teacher. In "One Child" Torey tells the story of working with a 6 year girl, Sheila, who at the time was being physically and emotionally neglected, sexually abused. Sheila was put into Torey's class by the state course as she is experiencing a range of emotional and behavioural issues.

Tiger's Child picks up the story of how Torey and Sheila were reunited when Sheila is 15. Told very much as an unfolding journey between the two, Tiger's Child picks up on repressed memories and the long reaching impacts of childhood abuse on a now troubled teenage Sheila.

Tiger's Child can be read alone or as part of a sequel with One Child, also by Torey Hayden.

Precious Based on the novel 'Push'
By Sapphire

Paperback: 192 pages (2010)

Publisher: Vintage

ISBN: 0099548720

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This very emotive account of Precious Jones’ encounter with childhood abuse is graphic and explicit throughout but serves as a poignant example of the devastation, confusion and anger that are often consequences of abuse. Precious’ childhood is stolen before it even begins by a father who fathers her first child when she is only 12 years old, a second at 16 and a mother who condones and contributes to the abuse in unspeakable ways.

The journal like account aptly but subtly exposes the many ways in which society often fails to recognize or intervene in situations where children are at risk, even when, as in the case Precious, a child is crying out for help. It brings in consciousness the many issues that can ensue as a direct consequence of abuse such as childhood pregnancy, an interrupted education and isolation.
 
Although this story is filled with devastation and desolation, there is an undertone of strength, resilience and hope as Precious is able to come to a place where she recognizes she is not alone, that many others have similar stories to tell and that she can redefine her life by getting an education, becoming independent of her abusers, and taking charge of her future, despite the adversities she continues to face.

Today is the Tomorrow That I Dreamed of Yesterday
Eleanor Broaders

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• Paperback 32 pages
• Publisher: Self-published (Lulu)

Ms Broaders' poetry anthology was self published as a symbol of hope for anyone who has been abused in childhood.  She writes of her sadness and the simple pleasure she found in nature and her joy in ordinary everyday events that kept the hope alive in her heart.  Hope that one day tomorrow could be better than today.

Strong at the Broken Places: Overcoming the Trauma of Child Abuse
Linda T. Sanford

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• Paperback 224 pages (August 29, 1991)
• Publisher: Virago Press
• ISBN: 1853813745

This book challenges the idea that childhood victims are caught forever in the vicious circle of abuse. In 17 years of working with victims and survivors, the author discovered that most survivors break free from the patterns of victimization. Over 20 people were interviewed in depth for this book.

The Golly in the Cupboard
Phil Frampton

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• Paperback 302 pages (May 20, 2004)
• Publisher: Tamic Publications
• ISBN: 0954764900

Phil Frampton’s memoir is a dramatic and gripping detective story of a man who goes in search of the background to his parentless childhood spent in foster care, institutions and bed sits. Using letters and official records, he unfolds an odyssey of love, rejection, racism, cruelty, joy, bravery, lies and deception, and reveals his reactions to his discoveries.

What A Life!
Ola Lydia Taiwo

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(If you do buy Lydia's book, please let her know that you found it through the NAPAC website and she'll donate £2 to us!!)

• Paperback 98 pages (2008)
• Publisher: Grosvenor House Publishing Ltd.
• ISBN: 978-1-6069-3982-6

What A Life is a true story about a Nigerian girl born in the England. She was home alone most of the time. Physical abuse was a daily episode in her home, she had been physically abused by her mother and father. Ola had to go into hospital on some of the occasions. It is shocking that the Social Security were also deceived when informed about a particular incidence.

Ola was able to survive and forgive her parents and she is alive to tell the story. Ola would like to encourage others who cannot speak out, or those who are afraid to tell, that one day the truth will come out and one day we will be free.