A Safe Place

by Maxine Trottier

To escape her father's abuse, Emily and her mother come to a shelter where they find a safe place to stay with other women and children in similar circumstances. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807572128
• ISBN13: 9780807572122
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
• Length: 30 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 6 to 9 years
• Grade Range: Grades 1 to 4

Customer Reviews

A supportive and reassuring book about escaping family abuse

A SAFE PLACE is a highly sensitive and thoughtful book about Emily and her mother as they escape to a shelter for abused women and children. In a story that is appropriately understated and gently told, Maxine Trottier acknowledges Emily's complicated feelings of guilt, displacement, and concern for her father. Yet she weaves Emily's fear and sadness with the delicious relief of living in a place where there is no danger or anger, a place where her mother can relax and smile. Friedman's pencil drawings capture the range of emotions experienced by all of the residents of the safe house. A comforting and reassuring book.