Violet is Blue

Violet Sellers is blue, and for good reason. She's repressing a shocking secret she won't tell anyone, especially her comfortably middle-class parents. When she makes a new friend in school, Jules Marks, who lives on the "other side of the tracks" with his five little sisters, she is introduced to a dark world of self-abuse. As Violet learns about Jules and his shifty mother, Lee, she retreats further into her shell. Her parents, Gloria and Skip, are horrified and do their best to find out ...