Sarah's Waterfall: A Healing Story About Sexual Abuse
Ellery Akers
Knowing personally how difficult sexual abuse can be, award-winning author and teacher Ellery Akers wrote Sarah’s Waterfall: A Healing Story About Sexual Abuse (Safer Society Press, March 2009). A first-of-its-kind novel that focuses on how young girls can recover from sexual trauma, this book recently won a Skipping Stones honor award in the Parenting/Teaching Resource category. ( Skipping Stones is a non-profit multi-cultural children’s magazine.)
Considering that as many as one in four girls are sexually abused before the age of 18, with the median age being nine years, Akers hopes her book shows that you don’t have to be an adult to start the healing process.
“Sarah’s Waterfall has a very soothing quality and covers many important issues in a very sophisticated, intelligent way. Sarah’s Waterfall will help children because it normalizes the issue of sexual abuse and gives kids healthy strategies for coping.” – Sherri Patterson, M.F.T., founder and director of the California’s Touch Safety Program
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