Don't Hurt Laurie

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Author:

Roberts, Willo Davis

Illustrator:

Sanderson, Ruth

ISBN:

978-0-689-71206-7

Publication Date:

Mar 1988

Publisher:

Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing

Imprint:

Aladdin

Book Format:

Paperback

List Price:

USD $9.99

Book Description:

"Don't Hurt Laurie is Willo Davis Roberts' story of a girl physically abused by her mother. Can she escape, and will anyone believe her story?"

After her mother, prone to fits of anger, remarries, Laurie, a battered child, is aided by her new nine-year-old stepbrother in finding the help that she so badly needs.

Book Details

Pages:	176
Detailed Subjects:	Juvenile Fiction / General Juvenile Fiction / Social Themes / Physical & Emotional Abuse
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):	5 x 8 x 0.6 Inches
Book Weight:	0.363 Pounds

Author Biography

Roberts, Willo Davis (Author)

Author Willo Davis Roberts was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan on May 29, 1928. Her first novel, Murder at Grand Bay, was published in 1955. The View from the Cherry Tree was originally meant to be an adult novel, but was then sold as a children's book; it was published in 1975 and started her career as a children's mystery writer. Roberts wrote a total of ninety-nine children and adult books during her lifetime and won numerous awards including the Mark Twain award for The Girl with the Silver Eyes (1980) and Baby-Sitting Is a Dangerous Job (1985) and the Edgar Allen Poe Award for Megan's Island (1988), The Absolutely True Story of My Visit to Yellowstone with the Terrible Rupes (1994), and Twisted Summer (1996). She died on November 19, 2004 from congestive heart failure.

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