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Micah and Janie are best friends ? secret best friends. No one knows about their secret, life-long friendship and Janie intends to keep it that way. But when Janie is date-raped by the most popular boy in school and her other friends turn a blind eye, Micah is the only one who can help her.
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Quiet you carry volume 2
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English
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As college freshman Victoria Parker moves on with her life after surviving sexual assault by her father and six months in foster care, she realizes she must muster courage to confront her past while staying true to herself.
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Publisher Annotation: Luke has been away for two endless years, but he?s finally returning today. Lily was only twelve when he left. But now, at fourteen, she feels transformed. She can?t wait to see how Luke will react when he sees the new her. And when her mother tells her that Luke will be staying with them for a while, in the bedroom right next to hers, her heart nearly stops. Having Luke back is better than Lily could have ever dreamed. His lingering...
5) Swagger
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2013?]
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English
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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.
6) Parachutes
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English
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Speak enters the world of Gossip Girl in this modern immigrant story from New York Times bestselling author Kelly Yang about two girls navigating wealth, power, friendship, and trauma.
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Saints and misfits novels volume 1
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English
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Fifteen-year-old Janna Yusuf, a Flannery O'Connor-obsessed book nerd and the daughter of the only divorced mother at their mosque, tries to make sense of the events that follow when her best friend's cousin--a holy star in the Muslim community--attempts to assault her at the end of sophomore year.
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English
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Publisher Annotation: The troublemaker. The overachiever. The cheer captain. The dead girl. Like every high school in America, Jefferson-Lorne High contains all of the above. After the shocking murder of senior Emma Baines, three of her classmates are at the top of the suspect list: Claude, the notorious partier; Avery, the head cheerleader; and Gwen, the would-be valedictorian. But appearances are never what they seem. And the truth behind what really...
9) Golden boys
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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To the outside world, Colt and Bastian Jenson?s father is ideal: generous, successful, attractive, and constantly providing his boys with the latest gadgets and gizmos. But to Colt, his father is overwhelming and overbearing. How can Colt find out which is the real Rex Jenson?
10) Identical
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English
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Sixteen-year-old identical twin daughters of a district court judge and a candidate for the United States House of Representatives, Kaeleigh and Raeanne Gardella desperately struggle with secrets that have already torn them and their family apart.
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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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.
13) Panic
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Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2013
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English
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As rehearsals begin for the ballet version of Peter Pan, the teenaged members of an Ohio dance troupe lose their focus when one of their own goes missing.
15) Asking for it
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Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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It's the beginning of the summer in a small town in Ireland. Emma O'Donovan is eighteen years old, beautiful, happy, confident. One night, there's a party. Everyone is there. All eyes are on Emma. The next morning, she wakes on the front porch of her house. She can't remember what happened, she doesn't know how she got there. She doesn't know why she's in pain. But everyone else does. Photographs taken at the party show, in explicit detail, what happened...
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Zest Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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Publisher Annotation: Things We Haven't Said is a powerful collection of poems, essays, letters, vignettes and interviews written by a diverse group of impressive adults who survived sexual violence as children and adolescents. Structured to incorporate creative writing to engage the reader and informative interviews to dig for context, this anthology is a valuable resource of hope, grit and honest conversation that will help teens tackle the topic...
17) Speak
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English
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Ashland Books at Noon April 2019 Picks
Banned Books Week: Young Adult Fiction
Classics with YA Pairs
Time's 100 Best YA Titles of All Time
Banned Books Week: Young Adult Fiction
Classics with YA Pairs
Time's 100 Best YA Titles of All Time
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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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English
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2020 Rise: A Feminist Book Project Top Ten
A Year in GoodReads 5 Star Ratings
Ashland Books at Noon April 2019 Picks
Tear Jerkers
A Year in GoodReads 5 Star Ratings
Ashland Books at Noon April 2019 Picks
Tear Jerkers
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"Bestselling author Laurie Halse Anderson is known for the unflinching way she writes about, and advocates for, survivors of sexual assault. Now, inspired by her fans and enraged by how little in our culture has changed since her groundbreaking novel Speak was first published twenty years ago, she has written a poetry memoir that is as vulnerable as it is rallying, as timely as it is timeless. In free verse, Anderson shares reflections, rants, and...
19) The life I'm in
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Series
The skin I'm in novels volume 2
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English
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The powerful and long-anticipated companion to The Skin I'm In, Sharon Flake's bestselling modern classic, presents the unflinching story of Char, a young woman trapped in the underworld of human trafficking.
20) Charm & strange
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Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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A lonely teenager exiled to a remote Vermont boarding school in the wake of a family tragedy must either surrender his sanity to the wild wolves inside his mind or learn that surviving means more than not dying.
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