Safe by Susan Shaw

On the last day of seventh grade, Tracy is raped on her way home from school. From that day on, she never feels safe. Her mother died when she was three, but she has always felt that her mother was watching over her. She no longer feels like her mother is with her. She is afraid to leave the house. She feels like everyone pities her. She is afraid to go to school. She ends all contacts with her friends and won't talk to anyone. The counselor is goes to is unable to help her. She finds comfort in her piano and plays for hours. Finally it gets to be too much for her to handle and she goes to Monkey Mountain in search of her mother. Her Pa and friends find her there. She admits that she needs help and finds a new counselor. She finally makes up with her friend Caroline and is able to feel safe again. She finds her mother's presence in a poem she finds at the counselor's office.