Books about child abuse recovery suitable for teenagers (12-13)???

[adelicatequestion]

Today my dd who is 12 asked if I would buy her a book.

When I saw that it was one of those books written by people who have recovered from abusive childhoods, I initially said no.

I am currently having a horrible time revovering ysof from sexual abuse as a child.

I am not aainst her reading these books, I just question why she finds them interesting (she knows nothing of my abuse).

She says that all her friends at school are reading them and say they are really interesting.

What would your rake be on this - especially those of you who havent; been abused as you may be more subjective on this matter than me!

[MitchyInge]

I don't understand why anyone would want to read books like that - if they are interested in stories of people overcoming adversity why not read about Holocaust survivors?

There is something disturbing, almost as if readers are titillated by the graphic detail (I've only read a bit of Child Called It years ago but you can't miss the covers of thousands more in supermarkets)

[borderslass]

I have read quite a few of them it has helped me realise how common what happened to me as a child is and helped me start to finally get over the abuse, but I wouldn't recommend any 12-13 year old reading them much to graphic details in my opinion.
If she wants to read about true life experience Angela's Ashes is about hardship but not abuse.
Which book is it that she's interested in by the way.

[adelicatequestion]

There wasn;t one in particular. She just saw a section of these types fo books and said people at school were reading them.

Because of what happened to me (and I'm right in the middle of therapy for it) I'm not thinking very objectively.

I don;t think she's old enough to understand emotionally which is why I haven;t told her about me. For the same reasons, I don;t really want her reading about it.

But at school they are told things about abuse, domestic violence etc , so I suppose she is curious.

She is quite a mature and sensible 12 year old.

[coldtits]

buy her Angela's Ashes. It's a wry, well told tale of a poor Irish childhood. Plenty of real life detail, no graphic sexual abuse.