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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
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Walls, who spent years trying to hide her childhood experiences, allows the story to spill out in this recollection of growing up. From her current perspective as a contributor to MSNBC online, she remembers the poverty, hunger, jokes, and bullying she and her siblings endured, and she looks back at her parents: her flighty, self-indulgent mother, a Pollyanna unwilling to assume the responsibilities of parenting, and her father, troubled, brilliant...
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2016.
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"The night the trailer burned down, I think Daddy was the one who set it on fire...." For a long time, Edie thought she had escaped. It started in an Appalachian trailer park, where a young girl dreamed of becoming a doctor. But every day, Edie woke up to her reality: a poverty-stricken world where getting out seemed impossible. Where, at twelve years old, she taught herself to drive a truck so she could get her drunk daddy home from the bar. Where...
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2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 8
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After the success of his brother Dave Pelzer's bestselling memoir, Richard B. Pelzer touched thousands with his own account of an abusive childhood. In his second book, Richard reveals how the horrific treatment he endured as a boy affected him throughout his teenage years. As an adolescent, he found himself turning to drugs--even contemplating suicide--as he struggled to separate and live an autonomous life, away from his horrifying family situation....
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2010.
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Abused by an alcoholic, unemployed father, Doug Wallace and his seven siblings barely survived childhood--fleeing in the night from landlords, scrambling for food, and burning down the only home they ever owned to collect insurance money. In this raw testimony of a heart-breaking, hardscrabble childhood, Doug Wallace paints an unforgettable portrait of a child determined to free himself from the cycle of poverty that strangled his family for generations....
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c1994
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""Don't trust, don't talk, don't feel" has long been the credo of children of alcoholics. Now, The Family Secret brings together the stories of adult children of alcoholics, as they write about their childhood experiences. The selections demonstrate that alcoholism is a disease without prejudice or conscience. It strikes well-to-do families like Mariette Hartley's, who describes her father's descent into alcoholism as beginning on the 5:31 commuter...
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