I know it's a really heavy topic but I'm very interested in children's rights and the history pertaining them.
I recently read The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead, and based on the notes/further reading section I'm now reading The Boys of the Dark. For those who don't know, The Nickel Boys is about a young boy in 1950s Florida who gets sent to a "reform school" for delinquent boys. The school, based on a real one that operated until about 1983, was extremely abusive to the boys it claimed to be reforming. The inhumane practices ranged from whipping to rape to killing boys and hiding their bodies in the school grounds.
I imagine there are books about the Catholic Church sex abuse cases so that would be another example of what I am looking for.
Preferably non-fiction but I will check out well-researched fiction as well.
by gateway2glimmer