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Stronger than you know, Jolene Perry ; cover design by Jenna Stempel ; cover image, Jessica Neuwerth

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Jolene Perry ; cover design by Jenna Stempel ; cover image, Jessica Neuwerth

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, she's sure she'll never belong. Wracked by panic attacks, afraid to talk to anyone at her new school, Joy's got a whole list of reasons why she's 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 mother's 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?

Cover; Title Page; Dedication; Child Services Summary Report; ONE: Three months in and no less broken than before; TWO: My assignment from Lydia; THREE: Keeping track; FOUR: Still don't work right; FIVE: On assignment; SIX: Seriously, am I moving backward?; SEVEN: Wait. Is this what it's like to do better?; EIGHT: Sometimes there are no good answers; NINE: More lists; TEN: Better?; ELEVEN: An outing; TWELVE: Control; THIRTEEN: Forgotten things; FOURTEEN: Is this what we call a breakthrough?; FIFTEEN: Some things hurt worse than others; SIXTEEN: I have decided I now love the parkSEVENTEEN: On the listEIGHTEEN: Overheard; NINETEEN: Sometimes crappy things are followed by awesome things and then are followed by more crappy things; TWENTY: Weight; TWENTY-ONE: Tomorrow; TWENTY-TWO: Better than therapy; TWENTY-THREE: I have no idea if this means I'm moving backward or forward-maybe I'm just running in circles; TWENTY-FOUR: Definitely Forward; TWENTY-FIVE: Straightening the confusion? Or making it worse?; TWENTY-SIX: Boys; TWENTY-SEVEN: Back to the lists; TWENTY-EIGHT: Not sure yet; TWENTY-NINE: It only looks like overreaction-well, and sort of feels like it tooTHIRTY: Sanity dayTHIRTY-ONE: Back to this; THIRTY-TWO: Shopping with Daisy-enough said; THIRTY-THREE: The injustice of justice; THIRTY-FOUR: I do not want to do this; THIRTY-FIVE: Know you have that; THIRTY-SIX: Transfer; THIRTY-SEVEN: Time for thinking; THIRTY-EIGHT: A happy beginning; THIRTY-NINE: The sort of end; Acknowledgments; Copyright