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"Since their parents divorce when they were young, Nell and her sister Layla have been each other's stability and support. When Layla starts to pull away, Nell discovers a secret: Layla is involved with one of their teachers. Nell struggles with what to do"--
3) Maybe I will
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A novel presenting a picture of the realities of sexual assault without revealing the gender of the victim.
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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.
5) Unleaving
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After being sexually assaulted by a football star, Maggie drops out of college but cannot escape the fact that everyone blames her for what happened.
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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 is a famed slayer of monsters, one of the King's most...
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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.
9) Dawn
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Fifteen-year-old Dawn, who cares for her alcoholic mother, tries to suppress a painful childhood memory as she contemplates killing God, whom she blames for her father's disappearance.
10) Off script
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Seeking Mansfield volume 3
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In this contemporary retelling of Jane Austen's Emma, nineteen-year-old starlet Emma Crawford's favorite role is playing career matchmaker to her friends, but after reuniting with Liam Price and coming into contact with the darker side of Hollywood, she starts to question the glamorous world she has always known.
11) Naondel
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Red Abbey chronicles volume 2
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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.
12) Lawless spaces
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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.
13) Hush
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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.
17) Among the fallen
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In Victorian England, sixteen-year-old Orpha, imprisoned for crimes she did not commit, is released upon accepting the invitation of Charles Dickens for a fresh start at a home for fallen women.
Orpha has been imprisoned at the infamous Tothill prison for crimes she did not commit. Haunted by recurring flashbacks of sexual abuse, neglect, exploitation, and the horrors of a Victorian workhouse, she refuses to be crushed. When she is chosen by Charles...
20) Charm & strange
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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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