Greenwood, T. (Tammy)
Summary: Camden, NJ, 1948. When 11 year-old Sally Horner steals a notebook from the local Woolworth's, she has no way of knowing that Frank LaSalle, fresh out of prison, is watching her, preparing to make his move. Accosting her outside the store, Frank convinces Sally that he's an FBI agent who can have her arrested unless she does as he says. Over the next two years Frank mentally and physically...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GREBooth, Coe
Summary: After a wonderful seven weeks at Ainsley International School, twelve-year-old Caprice has been offered a full scholarship and she should be delighted, but instead she is full of doubts because what happened at the last night dance has brought back the memory of being sexually abused by her uncle as a four-year-old; worse, her maternal grandmother is ill, and that means going back to the house...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BOOCole, Olivia A.
Summary: "Sixteen-year-old Alicia Rivers has a reputation that precedes her. But there's more to her story than the whispers that follow her throughout the hallways at school--whispers that splinter into a million different insults that really mean: a girl who has had sex. But what her classmates don't know is that Alicia was sexually abused by a popular teacher, and that trauma has rewritten every cell...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Labyrinth Road, an imprint of Random House Children's Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC COLJackson, Tiffany D.
Summary: "When legendary R&B artist Korey Fields spots Enchanted Jones at an audition, her dreams of being a famous singer take flight. Until Enchanted wakes up with blood on her hands and zero memory of the previous night. Who killed Korey Fields? Before there was a dead body, Enchanted's dreams had turned into a nightmare. Because behind Korey's charm and star power was a controlling dark side. Now...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC JACGustafson, Cassie
Summary: Told in flashbacks, dark fairytales, and present-day prose, fourteen-year-old Emma, whose best friend has accused her father of heinous crimes, must testify against her friend's word, and her carefully constructed "truths" about what she may or may not have witnessed between father and friend start to crumble.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction GustafsonMessner, Kate
Summary: Moving to Vermont the summer after seventh grade, a young gymnast hides a secret as she makes new friends and investigates her grandmother's claim that someone is trying to destroy her cricket farm.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MESMcMillan, Shirley-Anne
Summary: "The pressure – social and academic – is high for the teenage students of an elite secondary school in Belfast; Can poetry, friendship and a trip to Spain give them the courage to be true to themselves? Wealthy, popular Charlotte and quiet, working class Drew couldn’t be more different, but both face a common enemy at Cooke’s Academy in the form of the Stewards – an elite group of students...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Island Books 2023
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC MCMBowman, Akemi Dawn
Summary: Kiko Himura yearns to escape the toxic relationship with her mother by getting into her dream art school, but when things do not work out as she hoped Kiko jumps at the opportunity to tour art schools with her childhood friend, learning life-changing truths about herself and her past along the way.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BOWMessner, Kate
Summary: Moving to Vermont the summer after seventh grade, a young gymnast hides a secret as she makes new friends and investigates her grandmother's claim that someone is trying to destroy her cricket farm.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC MESPatel, Sajni
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Manisha is no stranger to monsters—she’s been running from them for years, from beasts who roam the jungle to the King’s army, who forced her people, the naga, to scatter to the ends of the earth. You might think that the kingdom’s famed holy temples atop the floating mountains, where Manisha is now a priestess, would be safe—but you would be wrong. Seventeen-year-old Pratyush...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PATBlake, Ashley Herring
Summary: When Mara's twin brother Owen is accused of rape by her friend Hannah, Mara is forced to confront her feelings about her family, her sense of right and wrong, a trauma from her past, and the future with her girlfriend, Charlie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC BLAGlasgow, Kathleen
Summary: As she struggles to recover and survive, seventeen-year-old homeless Charlotte "Charlie" Davis cuts herself to dull the pain of abandonment and abuse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2016
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Summary: Seton Academic High is a prep school obsessed with its football team and their thirteen-year conference win streak. The players always say they'd never have that streak without Seton's girls, but exactly Seton girls do to make them so valuable no one ever really says. The team's quarterback, the younger brother of the Seton star who started the streak, wants more than regular season glory. He...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2022
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Summary: "Phoebe Wynne's The Ruins is a suspenseful, feminist Gothic coming-of-age tale with shades of Patricia Highsmith, Rebecca, and Atonement, pitched against the sun-soaked backdrop of a summer holiday on the French Riviera. Welcome to the Chateau des Sètes, a jewel of the Cote d'Azur, where long summer days bring ease, glamour, and decadence to the holidaymakers who can afford it. Ruby Ashby...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WYNIacopelli, Jennifer
Summary: A year after being nearly paralyzed, Audrey Lee is going to the Olympics but the United States' gymnastics team is on the verge of collapse and Leo, her new coach's cute son, is another distraction.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Razorbill 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC IACBruzas, Alena
Summary: "Seventeen-year-old Virginia makes bad choices. In fact, she's That Kind of Girl, according to the whispers. But as long as she has her tight group of best friends by her side, she's able to ignore the gossipers. Until she finds herself spending time with Rumi, Poppy's boyfriend. Breaking with tradition, she doesn't hook up with Rumi. Worse, she falls in love with him. While Virginia and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rocky Pond Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BRUWalker, Alice
Summary: Tells the story of two African-American sisters: Nettie, a missionary in Africa, and Celie, a child-wife living in the south, in the medium of their letters to each other and in Celie's case, the desperate letters she begins, "Dear God."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 0000
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: BOOK CLUB KIT FIC WALKent, Christobel
Summary: Bridget has a secret--one she keeps from everyone, even her husband. One that threatens to explode when her childhood music teacher, Carmichael, walks into her dress shop. With him is a young girl on the cusp of adulthood, fresh-faced and pretty. She reminds Bridget of herself at that age, naïve and vulnerable. Bridget wants him away--away from her, away from that girl. But Carmichael won't...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KENBarnett, S. K.
Summary: "A kidnapped girl returns home after twelve years away--but coming home may not be as easy as she thought in this roller coaster ride of lies, betrayal, and secrets that just might be the twistiest thriller you'll read all year. Jenny Kristal was six years old when she was snatched off the sidewalk from her quiet suburban neighborhood. Twelve years later, she's miraculously returned home after...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BARIloh, Candice
Summary: "Ada" means first daughter, means oldest girl, means most pressure. When Ada leaves home for her freshman year at a historical Black college, it's the first time that she's been able to make her own choices. As she stumbles deeper into the world of dance and explores her sexuality, she also begins to wrestle with her past-- her mother's struggle with addiction, her Nigerian father's attempts to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Books 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: YA FIC ILOSolter, Sonja
Summary: Over the course of a year, ten-year-old Tori endures a difficult and emotional journey after revealing that she has been sexually abused by her uncle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SOLRubin, Julia Lynn
Summary: High schoolers Trixie and Lux pack light for a weekend getaway, but after a single night of violence derails their trip they become wanted fugitives and the face of a #MeToo movement.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC RUBFriend, Natasha
Summary: Fifteen-year-old Nora sparks an investigation into institutional sexism in her small college town after she becomes the target of a fraternity game by athletes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC FRIDeuker, Carl.
Summary: High school senior point guard Jonas Dolan is on the fast track to a basketball career until an unthinkable choice puts his future on the line.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2013