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"Twelve-year-old Derik Mormin travels with his father and a family friend to Bella Bella for his grandfather's funeral. Along the way, he uncovers the traumatic history of his ancestors, considers his relationship to masculinity and explores the...

Two classics, The Lovely Bones and The Beach, meet in this girl-and-her-backpack story, except this teenager, Carlie, isn't merely traveling. Carlie steals ten thousand dollars from her parents to get as far from them as possible: Southeast Asia....

Discusses the effects of trauma on children and how they can heal.

The founder of the Heritage Home Foundation nonprofit documents her secret abuse-marked childhood in and out of foster care and what she discovered while investigating the story of her mother's own harrowing past.