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21) Naondel
Author
Series
Red Abbey chronicles volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Told in alternating points of view, Kabira, Garai, and the other First Sisters share a history of years of sexual violence, oppression, and exploitation at the hands of the vizier Iskan, whose dark powers originate from his control of the sacred spring at his palace at Ohaddin, before the women are able to escape and establish the female haven of Red Abbey on the island of Menos.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A fifth-grader whose best friends walked away, whose mother is detached, and whose father does unspeakable things, copes with the help of friend Sofie and anonymous letters tied to balloons and released. Includes a list of resources related to abuse, gender, sexuality, and more.
23) Fighting words
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Della relies on her older sister, Suki, for comfort and guidance during difficult times, but after Suki attempts suicide, it becomes apparent that she is struggling more than she lets on.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Appears on these lists
DEN - Kids + Teens: Arab American Heritage Month
MCL - Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature
NPM - YA Tough Topics
MCL - Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature
NPM - YA Tough Topics
Description
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.
25) A drop of venom
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"The legend of Medusa is retold as an empowering feminist tale in an Indian-mythology-inspired world"--
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...
26) Off the record
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"A teen journalist uncovers the #METOO scandal of the decade: a bigshot Hollywood director is taking advantage of cast members"--
28) You ruined it
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
An eleven-year-old young girl recovers from being sexually assaulted by her cousin, with the help of her mother and sister.
30) Not in room 204
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
A teacher tells the children in her class to talk to an adult if they are being sexually abused.
31) Starfish
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Simon Pulse hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
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.
33) Lawless spaces
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
While a highly publicized sexual assault case threatens to destroy her and her mother, sixteen-year-old Mimi Dovewick tries to understand their tense relationship by reaching out to the women of her maternal line through the journals they all kept.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Committed to a mental hospital against her will for something she claims she did not do, Cassie O'Malley signs herself out against medical advice when she turns eighteen and tries to start over at college, until her estranged mother appears, throwing everything Cassie believes about herself into question.
37) Scars
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
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.
38) Hush
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Description
After remembering the cause of her best friend Devory's suicide at age nine, Gittel is determined to raise awareness of sexual abuse in her Borough Park, New York, community, despite the rules of Chassidim that require her to be silent.
39) Glimpse
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Living with their mother who earns money as a prostitute, two sisters take care of each other and when the older one attempts suicide, the younger one tries to uncover the reason.
40) Charm & strange
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
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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