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Date and Acquaintance Rape
A collection of personal narratives on date and acquaintance rape.
107 p. 2009
Teen Nonfiction Book
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Anderson, Laurie Halse
Speak
A traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating effect on Melinda's freshman year in high school.
197 p. 2009
Teen Fiction Book
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Feuereisen, Patti
Invisible Girls
Weaving together powerful first-person narratives with gentle guidance and seasoned insights to help girls through the maze of feelings that swirl around the abuse experience, this resource gives every young woman who struggles with the scars of sexual abuse the courage that comes from knowing that she is not alone.”
334 p. 2009
Adult Nonfiction Book
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Fragoso, Margaux
Tiger Tiger
Fragoso's gut-wrenching memoir of sexual abuse--unflinchingly yet exquisitely rendered as she experienced them.
322 p. 2011
Adult Nonfiction Book
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Hassman, Tupelo
Girlchild
Rory wants to get out of the Reno trailer park where she lives with her mother, Jo, the sweet-faced, hard-luck bartender at the Truck Stop. Rory's been told that she is one of the 'third-generation bastards surely on the road to whoredom.' But she's determined to prove the county and her own family wrong. Brash, sassy, vulnerable, wise, and terrified, she struggles with her mother's habit of trusting the wrong men, and the mixed blessing of being too smart for her own good.
275 p. 2012
Adult Fiction Book
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Jones, Patrick
Chasing Tail Lights
Seventeen-year-old Christy wants only to finish high school and escape her Flint, Michigan, home, where she cooks, cleans, cares for her niece, and tries to fend off her half-brother, a drug dealer who has been abusing her since she was eleven.
294 p. 2007
Teen Fiction Book
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O'Connell, Mary
The Sharp Time
In the week following her mother's death in a freak accident, eighteen-year-old Sandanista Jones finds small measures of happiness even as she fantasizes about an act of revenge against an abusive teacher at her high school.
229 p. 2011
Teen Fiction Book
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Prose, Francine
Touch
Ninth-grader Maisie's concepts of friendship, loyalty, self-acceptance, and truth are tested to their limit after a school bus incident with the three boys who have been her best friends since early childhood.
262 p. 2010
Teen Fiction Book
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Rainfield, C. A.
Scars
Fifteen-year-old Kendra, a budding artist, has not felt safe since she began to recall devastating memories of childhood sexual abuse, especially since she cannot remember her abuser's identity, and she copes with the pressure by cutting herself.
248 p. 2010
Teen Fiction Book
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Sanchez, Alex
Bait
Diego keeps getting into trouble because of his explosive temper until he finally finds a probation officer who helps him get to the root of his anger so that he can stop running from his past.
239 p. 2009
Teen Fiction Book
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Scott, Elizabeth
Living Dead Girl
When Alice was ten, Ray took her away from her family, her friends: her life. She learned to give up all power, to endure all pain. She waited for the nightmare to be over. Now Alice is fifteen and Ray still has her, but he speaks more and more of her death. He does not know it is what she longs for. She does not know he has something more terrifying than death in mind for her. This is Alice's story.
170 p. 2008
Teen Fiction Book
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Van Tol, Alex
Viral
After his best friend begins hanging out with the wrong crowd and is caught in a compromising situation, Mike tries to help her before she destroys her life.
131 p. 2011
Teen Fiction Book
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