Don't Hurt Laurie!

by Willo Davis Roberts

Book Overview

"Don't Hurt Laurie is Willo Davis Roberts' story of a girl physically abused by her mother. Can she escape, and will anyone believe her story?"

After her mother, prone to fits of anger, remarries, Laurie, a battered child, is aided by her new nine-year-old stepbrother in finding the help that she so badly needs.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0689712065
• ISBN13: 9780689712067
• Release Date: March 1988
• Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks
• Length: 166 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 7.8"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

She is not alone

What a wonderful book to show children suffering from abuse that they aren't alone. 11 year old Laurie lives with her abusive mother, Annabelle, who makes Laurie feel as if she has to make excuses and lie for all of her 'accidents' in which her mother causes. Laurie endures more abuse than she can handle, but finds solace in a dog she 'adopts.' She hides this dog and cares for it, as it provides one of her only sources of safty and happiness. When Annabelle attacks the dog, things change. This book should be in every school library, and every media specialist should be familiar with it. A child who is going through what Laurie goes through might be more inclined to talk knowing that they are not alone.

I read it in 3rd grade and I still remember it, I'm 20!!

The book was so powerful that I can still remember it 12 yrs later. It described in such detail the pain that this poor child felt and yet it did it in a way that was very easy to understand. This book is by far one of the best books that a child could ever read on child abuse and gain a complete knowledge and understanding of such a horrible thing. EXCELLENT!!!!!

I loved this book

This book let me know how serious child abuse really is. I think all kids should read this so that they can know about child abuse. THIS BOOK IS GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!

A girl and her mom's abnormal relationship of abuse.

This book is one of my favorite! It talks about two kinds of relationships. One of Laurie and her mother. Laurie's mother Annabell can't controll her actions of abuse and so Laurie misses out on a real mother-daughter relationship. And the second is of how Laurie misses out on friendship because her mother won't let her. If you want to know Laurie does find a true friend.Her step-brother and a neighbor boy George. This was a real tear-jerker so always have a box of tissues

Great book

I think that this was one of the best book's i've ever read. I've read it a million times, and i enjoy it every time. you really do see and understand how she feels even if you've never been in her position.