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• I'm Nobody's Child (Ardmore, PA: Whitman Pub. Co., c1982), by Kenneth J. Herrmann (PDF with commentary at Brockport)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Children in Jeopardy: A Study of Abused Minors and Their Families (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1967), by Elizabeth Elmer, contrib. by Bertram R. Girdany, Thomas McHenry, and John B. Reinhart (page images at Pitt)

• Helping Traumatized Children Learn: Supportive School Environments for Children Traumatized by Family Violence (Boston: Massachusetts Advocates for Children, c2005), by Susan F. Cole, Jessica Greenwald O'Brien, M. Geron Gadd, Joel Ristuccia, D. Luray Wallace, and Michael Gregory (PDF files with commentary at massadvocates.org)

• The Primer: Helping Victims of Domestic Violence and Child Abuse in Polygamous Communities (2006), by Utah Attorney General's Office and Arizona Attorney General's Office (PDF at utah.gov)

• Child Sexual Exploitation: Improving Investigations and Protecting Victims (1995), by Education Development Center (text at ncjrs.gov)

• The Primer: Helping Victims of Domestic Violence and Child Abuse in Polygamous Communities (2006), by Utah Attorney General's Office and Arizona Attorney General's Office (PDF at utah.gov)

• Tempest in the Temple: Jewish Communities and Child Sex Scandals (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, c2009), ed. by Amy Neustein (PDF with commentary at Brandeis)

• Understanding Child Abuse and Neglect (1993), by National Research Council Panel on Research on Child Abuse and Neglect (page images with commentary at NAP)

• The Sexual Abuse of Children: Recognition and Redress (Clayton, Victoria: Monash University Publishing, c2016), ed. by Yorick Smaal, Andy Kaladelfos, and Mark Finnane (PDF and Epub with commentary at monash.edu)

• The Madness of Philip, and Other Tales of Childhood (New York: McClure, Phillips and Co., 1902.), by Josephine Daskam Bacon, illust. by Fanny Y. Cory (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Believing Years (New York: Macmillan, 1911), by Edmund Lester Pearson
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Turn of the Screw, by Henry James (Gutenberg text)

• The Lamplighter (Boston: J. P. Jewett and Co.; Cleveland: Jewett, Proctor and Worthington, 1854), by Maria S. Cummins
  • multiple formats at Google
  • HTML at Northwestern
• Aaron the Jew: A Novel (London: Hutchinson and Co., 1895), by B. L. Farjeon
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
• Silas Marner, by George Eliot (Gutenberg text and audio)
• Silas Marner, the Weaver of Raveloe (Mobile, AL: S. H. Goetzel, 1863), by George Eliot
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Legacy of Cain, by Wilkie Collins
  • HTML at github.io
  • Gutenberg text
• The Tides of Barnegat, by Francis Hopkinson Smith (Gutenberg text)

• Decline and Fall (revised edition, c1962), by Evelyn Waugh (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Red Pony (illustrator died in 1966; c1937), by John Steinbeck, illust. by Wesley Dennis (multiple formats in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Hebrew Kid and the Apache Maiden (Los Angeles: Seraphic Press, 2005), by Robert J. Avrech (PDF with commetary at seraphicpress.com)
• Three Rousing Cheers for the Rollo Boys (New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1925), by Corey Ford, illust. by Gluyas Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens
  • searchable HTML at Bartleby
  • Gutenberg text; 2 MB
• David Copperfield (2 volumes; Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson, ca. 1850), by Charles Dickens, illust. by Hablot Knight Browne
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Penrod, by Booth Tarkington (Gutenberg text)
• Penrod (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1914), by Booth Tarkington, illust. by Gordon Grant (multiple formats at Indiana)
• Penrod and Sam, by Booth Tarkington (Gutenberg text)
• Penrod and Sam (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1916), by Booth Tarkington, illust. by Worth Brehm (multiple formats at Indiana)
• Ragged Dick, by Horatio Alger (Gutenberg text and audio)
• Dogland (prepublication version, 1997), by Will Shetterly (multiple formats at manybooks.net)
• A Child of the Jago (third edition; London: Methuen and Co., 1897), by Arthur Morrison (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• A Child of the Jago (New York: Duffield and Co., 1906), by Arthur Morrison (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Chronicles of the Imp: A Romance (new and cheaper edition; London: S. Low, Marston and Co., 1915), by Jeffery Farnol (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Look Homeward, Angel: A Story of the Buried Life (1929), by Thomas Wolfe (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• Good-Bye, Mr. Chips (c1934), by James Hilton (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (first edition and commentary), by Mark Twain (illustrated HTML at Virginia)
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1904), by Mark Twain (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Hartford et al.: American Pub. Co., 1884), by Mark Twain (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Hole in the Wall (third edition; London: Methuen and Co., 1903), by Arthur Morrison (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Kim, by Rudyard Kipling (Gutenberg text)
• Kim (New York: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1901), by Rudyard Kipling (illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com)
• The Prince and the Pauper, by Mark Twain
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • HTML at americanliterature.com
• Sir Gibbie, by George MacDonald
  • multiple formats with commentary at CCEL
  • Gutenberg text
• A Son of the State (London: Methuen and Co., 1902), by W. Pett Ridge (Gutenberg text)
• Tom Brown's Schooldays (with illustrations from the 1911 Harper and Brothers edition), by Thomas Hughes, contrib. by William Dean Howells, illust. by Louis Rhead (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Factory Girl (originally published 1814; with extensive added notes), by Sarah Savage, ed. by Duncan Faherty and Ed White (PDF with commentary at common-place.org)
• The Young Apprentice (credited to "the author of Fern's Hollow", i.e. Stretton; Boston: H. Hoyt, n.d.), by Hesba Stretton (page images at HathiTrust)

• Cherry Feasts for Barbarous Fourths (Watertown, NY: Hungerford-Holbrook Co., 1909), by Asenath Carver Coolidge (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Home at Greylock (New York: A. D. F. Randolph and Co., 1876), by E. Prentiss
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA
• Cap'n Warren's Wards, by Joseph Crosby Lincoln, illust. by Edmund Frederick (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.