Books like Ordinary Resurrections by Jonathan Kozol

In the senior year of high school, Sal confronts a sudden identity crisis, questioning his place within his loving Mexican‑American adoptive family, his gay father and his best friend Samantha.

Thirteen‑year‑old newsboy Maks Geless races the 1893 New York streets to rescue his sister, battle a ruthless gang, and solve mysteries with a street‑wise lawyer and a lone alley girl.

A memoir by Harlem Children's Zone founder Geoffrey Canada that examines violence and social conditions in urban America, particularly in New York City.

In 1990s South Africa, a young black boy leaves a violent home and joins a street gang, confronting poverty, schooling gaps, and survival challenges.

Two boys navigate survival amid crime and neglect in Chicago's Henry Horner Homes public housing complex.

Lost Childhoods is a pioneering exploration of the complicated individual, family, sociocultural, and existential-ethical forces at work in the lives of parentified children - and treatment strategies that systematically address different layers of the parentification process. Dr. Jurkovic begins by guiding the reader from an integrated conceptualization to possible causes, transgenerational transmission patterns, and manifestations of parentification, facilitating a clear understanding of how and why this scenario is so common - even in very young children. Drawing from therapeutic experience and research, he presents the startling consequences of parentification through the eyes of parentified children, other family members, and the succeeding generation. The second part of the book introduces methods of assessment, treatment, and prevention of destructive forms of parentification. Blueprints for the construction of systemically and ethically sound individual, family, couple, and community interventions are provided. This part of the text also includes thought-provoking insights into the professional, ethical, and personal challenges faced by therapists who themselves have a history of pathological parentification. Interviews with two such therapists bring these insights to life. For therapists at any level of practice and investigators from various disciplines, Lost Childhoods puts a huge piece of the family puzzle into place.