Title: Don't Hurt Laurie!
First published: 1977
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.
Subjects: Child abuse, Fiction, Juvenile fiction, Children's fiction, Child abuse, fiction, Parent and child, fiction, Children, fiction