Start with high-confidence abuse & healing books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
Bridge to Terabithia
Katherine Paterson, Donna Diamond
Speak
Laurie Halse Anderson
Mayday
Karen Harrington
The Chocolate War
Robert Cormier
Hatchet
Gary Paulsen
The Trouble With Heroes
Kate Messner
A Child Called It
Dave Pelzer
Not Nothing
Gayle Forman
Fighting Words
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
