Goka, Ruby Yayra
Summary: Ghana. Eldest of four girls, Amerley is offered a job working for one of her mother's old school friends. She has to accept: her wages will feed her family, help her sisters stay in school, and ensure that her mother won't have to worry about them. Amerley's move to Accra isn't easy, but she soon settles into her new life away from her small village-- until she is raped by the son of her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GOKReyes, Sonora
Summary: "Ariana Ruiz wants to be noticed. But as an autistic girl who never talks, she goes largely ignored by her peers--despite her bold fashion choices. So when cute, popular Luis starts to pay attention to her, Ari finally feels seen. Luis's attention soon turns to something more, and they have sex at a party--while Ari didn't say no, she definitely didn't say yes. Before she has a chance to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC REYWatson, Cristy
Summary: "This book tells a tough but realistic story about teen relationships and sexual assault and how social media plays a role in magnifying its impact. In suburban Vancouver, in a multiracial mixed-income neighbourhood, three 14-year-old friends, a boy and two girls, go to a party organized by the boy's older brother. One of the girls, who comes from a mixed-race Aboriginal/Caucasian family of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Watson 2018Makino, Aoi
Summary: After that day, she stopped being a girl. In the wake of an assault, Nina Kamiyama, a former idol in the group Pure Club, shuns her femininity and starts dressing as a boy. At high school, she keeps to herself, but fellow student Hikaru Horiuchi realizes who she is. What secrets is she keeping? The shocking drama starts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media LLC. 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 NOTSmith, Amber
Summary: EDEN was always good at being good. Band geek. Book nerd. Starting high school didn't change that. But the night her brother's best friend rapes her, Eden's whole world capsizes. What was once simple is now complex. What Eden once loved--who she loved--she now hates. What she believed was the truth, now lies. Nothing makes sense any more, and she's never felt so alone in her life. She knows...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC SMINazemian, Abdi
Summary: "Beth Kramer is a "townie" who returns to her sophomore year after having endured a year of tension with her roommate, Sarah. But Sarah Brunson knows there's more to that story. Amanda Priya "Spence" Spencer is the privileged daughter of NYC elites, who is reeling from the realization that her family name shielded her from the same fate as Sarah. Ramin Golafshar arrives at Chandler as a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC NAZCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC NAZAnderson, Laurie Halse.
Summary: A traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating effect on Melinda's freshman year in high school.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ANDRobson, Laura Brooke
Summary: Scholarly and soft-spoken, seventeen-year-old Thea escapes from her mother's pirate ship and into the arms of a charming sailor whose betrayal forces Thea to reconsider her mother's lessons about surviving in a man's world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ROBLiggett, Kim
Summary: Tierney James, sixteen, struggles to endure the year in which she and other young women are banished to the wild until, purified, the survivors are allowed to return home and marry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC LIGReed, Amy Lynn
Summary: After Grace learns of a girl who was run out of town for accusing the popular guys at school of gang rape, she convinces her friends Rosina and Erin to help her form an anonymous group of girls, called The Nowhere Girls, to resist the sexist culture at Prescott High. As their group grows in number their movement becomes about more than sex, and transforms the lives of its members, their school,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC REEAnderson, Laurie Halse.
Summary: A traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating effect on Melinda's freshman year in high school.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Speak 2009
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2 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ANDCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Anderson 1999Sawyerr, Hannah V.
Summary: In the wake of being sexually assaulted by her pastor, sixteen-year-old Amina struggles to regain her footing until she finds the strength within herself to confront her abuser in court.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Bates, Laura
Summary: When a small plane crash ends with a group of seven teens washed up on a deserted island, their first thought is survival. With supplies dwindling and the fear of being stranded forever becoming more of a reality, they quickly discover that being the most popular kid in high school doesn't help when you're fighting to stay alive. And when strange and terrifying accidents start to occur all...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Fire 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BATLeno, Katrina
Summary: No one on the island of By-the-Sea would call the Fernweh women what they are, but if you need the odd bit of help, such as a sleeping aid concocted by moonlight, they are the ones to ask. Georgina Fernweh waits for the tingle of magic in her fingers-- magic that has already touched her twin sister, Mary. But with her eighteenth birthday looming at the end of her last summer on the island,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2018