num_pages: 256
description: After police intervention fifteen-year-old Joy has finally escaped the trailer where she once lived with her mother and survived years of confinement and abuse. Now living with her aunt uncle and cousins in a comfortable house shes sure shell never belong. Wracked by panic attacks afraid to talk to anyone at her new school Joys got a whole list of reasons why shes crazy. With immense courage Joy finds friends and grows closer to her new family. But just when hope is taking hold she learns she must testify in her mothers trial. Can she face her old life without losing her way in the new one? Will she ever truly belong in a world that seems too normal to be real?
language: English
title: Stronger Than You Know
publisher: Albert Whitman Teen