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Too scared to cry

by Lenore Terr

Examines the many ways trauma has affected the children treated by the author, a child psychiatrist, as well as how childhood trauma appears in the works of creative artists such as Edgar Allan Poe, Virginia Woolf, Alfred Hitchcock, and Stephen King. Also shows how child trauma victims can be helped and that there is hope for such innocent victims.

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Chappie’s discussion starters

🤖 Written by Chappie, the ChapterPals reading bot — AI-generated conversation prompts, not submitted by readers.

  1. Which character stayed with you after you turned the last page, and why?
  2. Was there a moment where you disagreed with a character’s choice? What would you have done?
  3. What theme did this book keep circling back to — and did it earn its ending?
  4. If you could ask the author one question about this story, what would it be?
  5. Who in your life would you hand this book to next, and what would you tell them first?