Stronger than You Know

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{u2019}s sure she{u2019}ll never belong. Wracked by panic attacks, afraid to talk to anyone at her new school, Joy{u2019}s got a whole list of reasons why she{u2019}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{u2019}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?