Brooke Nolan is a battered child who makes an anonymous phone call to social services about the excalating brutality in her home. 

When they jeopardize her saftey, condemning her to keep her father's secret, it's a glass of spilled milk at the dinner table that forces her to speak about the cruelty she's been hididng. Brooke then battles a broken system that pushes to keep her father in the home. She risks losing the support of family, coming to the realization that some people simply do not want to be saved. 

Spilled Milk is a novel of shocking narrative, triumph and resiliency, and is required reading for high school and college courses worldwide.