Schwartzman, Nancy

Summary: An incisive narrative about a teen rape case that divided a Rust Belt town, exposing the hostile and systemic undercurrents that enable sexual violence, and spotlighting ways to make change. In football-obsessed Steubenville, Ohio, on a summer night in 2012, an incapacitated sixteen-year-old girl was repeatedly assaulted by members of the "Big Red" high school football team. They took turns...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2022

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Li, Winnie M.

Summary: "One bright spring afternoon in West Belfast, cosmopolitan Taiwanese-American tourist Vivian's path collides with fifteen-year-old Irish teenager Johnny and culminates in a horrifying act of violence. Inspired by true events, a riveting novel of suspense about of the dark chapters and chance encounters that can irrevocably determine the shape of our lives"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018

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De Becker, Gavin

Summary: Covering all the dangerous situations people typically face -- street crime, domestic abuse, violence in the workplace -- de Becker provides real-life examples and offers specific advice on restraining orders, self-defense, and more. But the key to self-protection, he demonstrates, is learning how to trust -- and act on -- our own intuitions.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Company 2021

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Rose, Karen

Summary: Vowing to stop a black market ring that sells teenage girls, Susannah Vartanian and Luke Papadopoulos find comfort in each others' arms.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2009

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Addison, Corban

Summary: A young American lawyer and a Zambian police officer work together to uncover the identiy of a young Zambian girl who has been brutally assaulted and find out the person who is behind the crime.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014

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Faleiro, Sonia

Summary: "The girls' names were Padma and Lalli, but they were so inseparable that people in the village called them Padma Lalli. Sixteen-year-old Padma sparked and burned. Fourteen-year-old Lalli was an incorrigible romantic. They grew up in Katra Sadatganj, an eye-blink of a village in western Uttar Pradesh crammed into less than one square mile of land. It was out in the fields, in the middle of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 FAL

Summary: When a young girl is assaulted by an older man she meets on the Internet, her family's bonds are ripped apart as her father searches across the country in an effort to track down her attacker and exact revenge.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Millennium Entertainment 2011

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Everett, Sarah

Summary: "When her sister, Rose, disappeared, seventeen-year-old Emmy lost a part of herself. Everyone else seems convinced she ran away and will reappear when she's ready, but Emmy isn't so sure. That doesn't make sense for the Rose she knew: effervescent, caring, and strong-willed. So Emmy returns to their Ohio hometown for a summer, determined to uncover clues that can lead her back to Rose once and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022

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Saeed, Aisha

Summary: "A biography of Malala Yousafzai as part of the She Persisted series"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel 2022

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Brown, Dinah

Summary: Malala Yousafzai was a girl who loved to learn but was told that girls would no longer be allowed to go to school. She wrote a blog that called attention to what was happening in her beautiful corner of Pakistan and realized that words can bring about change. She has continued to speak out for the right of all children to have an education. In 2014 she won the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2015

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Hansen, Grace

Summary: Describes the life and accomplishments of the Pakistani teenager whose support for education for girls in her country led to her being shot by the Taliban.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Abdo Kids, a division of ABDO 2015

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Benjamin, Larry (Lawrence Ray)

Summary: Tristan and Max are a pair of Asian-American high school students who find themselves unexpectedly in love in post-Columbine America. Tristan works to balance what it means to be an excellent son, with its prescribed expectations and attendant demands, with his growing desire for independence and his deepening feelings for Max. While Max, after years of hopelessness, feels himself come alive at...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Beaten Track Publishing 2021

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Thomas, Angie

Summary: Starr a 16 ans, elle est noire et vit dans un quartier difficile, rythmé par les guerres de gangs, la drogue et les descentes de police. Tous les jours, elle rejoint son lycée blanc situé dans une banlieue chic; tous les jours, elle fait le grand écart entre ses deux vies, ses deux mondes. Mais tout vole en éclats le soir où son ami d'enfance Khalil est tué. Sous ses yeux, de trois balles dans...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Nathan 2018

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Marie, Aurielle

Summary: "Gumbo Ya Ya, Aurielle Marie's stunning debut, is a cauldron of hearty poems exploring race, gender, desire, and violence in the lives of Black gxrls, soaring against the backdrop of a contemporary South. These poems are loud, risky, and unapologetically rooted in the glory of Black gxrlhood. The collection opens with a heartrending indictment of injustice. What follows is a striking...

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Pittsburgh Press 2021

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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: 811 MAR

French, Nicci.

Summary: "The electrifying fourth book in the internationally bestselling Frieda Klein Mystery series Drawn to brilliant and solitary London psychotherapist Frieda Klein, a growing readership is discovering Nicci French's acclaimed series with each chilling installment. In Thursday's Children, Frieda faces her most personal case yet when a former classmate appears at Frieda's door, begging for her help....

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Books On Tape 2016

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Kukafka, Danya

Summary: "When fifteen-year-old Lucinda Hayes is found dead in her sleepy Colorado suburb, the secret lives of three people connected to her are revealed: the social outcast who loved her from afar, the jaded girl who despised her, and the policeman investigating her death"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2017

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Kellerman, Faye.

Summary: A young man's obsessive investigation into his sister's death draws him into the path of a sadistic serial killer. He went searching for the truth. Now a killer has found him. The more you know, the more there is to fear. Three years ago, fifteen-year-old Ellen Vicksburg went missing in the quiet town of River Remez, New Mexico. Ellen was kind, studious, and universally liked. Her younger...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2017

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Summary: Spunky and rebellious, Becky is brought to a weekend getaway at a lake house by her father Jeff in an effort to try to reconnect. The trip immediately takes a turn for the worse when a group of convicts on the run, led by the merciless Dominick, suddenly invade the lake house.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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Kuehn, Stephanie

Summary: "While staying with her uncle in Lake Paloma, Bea Fletcher soon discovers the town has mysteries of its own, including the unsolved drowning of a teenage girl - a case that leads her closer to home than she ever imagined"--Provided by publisher.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023

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Scottoline, Lisa

Summary: "Nobody cuts deeper than family ... Noah Alderman, a doctor and a widower, has remarried a wonderful woman, Maggie, and for the first time in a long time he and his son are happy. But their lives are turned upside down when Maggie's daughter Anna moves in with them. Anna is a gorgeous seventeen-year-old who balks at living under their rules though Maggie, ecstatic to have her daughter back,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018

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Langford, Jo

Summary: Jo Langford offers a complete guide to sexual and social development, safety, and health for LGBTQ youth and those who love and support them. Written from a practical perspective, the author explores the realities of teen sexuality, particularly that of trans teens, and provides guidance and understanding for parents and kids alike.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 306.7 LAN

Kellerman, Faye

Summary: "He went searching for the truth. Now a killer has found him. The more you know, the more there is to fear... Three years ago, sixteen-year-old Ellen Vicksburg went missing from the quiet town of River Remez, New Mexico. Ellen was kind, studious, and universally liked. Her younger brother, Ben, could imagine nothing worse than never knowing what happened to her--until, on the first anniversary...

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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Kellerman 2017

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Summary: For Angela, it came on the basketball court--while playing on the boys' team. For Penny, it came on a school field trip to the lake (making for some cringeworthy moments of humor). And to Layla's disappointment, it came at the start of her first fasting Ramadan, meaning that she won't be able to fast after all. Whether it spurs silence or celebration, whether the subjects are well prepared or...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023

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