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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sophie is in a lot of trouble. She is on probation for stealing and is doing poorly at school. Her mom doesn't really talk to her, and the other adults in her life are pressuring Sophie to talk about her bruises. Sophie worries that if she tells, she will be sent to live in a group home. Her friend Jujube is the only person who knows the truth, and now Jujube, too, wants Sophie to speak up.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Helen Potter lived a happy life until she got lost in a nightmare of sexual abuse. Now she's on a journey, a journey which takes her through urban and rural England along the same path that another Potter, Beatrix Potter, once took. Across the decades, two lives touch, and Helen discovers that the strength of two is far greater than one. Bryan Talbot constructs a very special story in The Tale of One Bad Rat, which immediately endears the reader....
Author
Series
Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.3 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
104 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Explores the emotional, physical, and legal issues surrounding the crime of sexual abuse, including possible reasons for committing abuse, how abuse affects the lives of victims, and how society can combat sexual abuse.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Lily Owens is a young girl who lives on the peach farm that her abusive father owns. Rosaleen is a black woman hired by Lily's father to be a stand-in mother for Lily. When Rosaleen and Lily walk into town, they are approached by some white men. Rosaleen insults these racists by standing up for her rights. The angry men give her a beating and she ends up in the hospital. Lily's father rescues Lily but not Rosaleen, so Lily talks Rosaleen into running...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
265 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this searing memoir, the author, "the girl" at the center of the infamous Roman Polanski sexual assault case, breaks a virtual thirty-five year silence to tell her story and reflect on the events of that day and their lifelong repercussions. March 1977, Southern California. Roman Polanski drives a rented Mercedes along Mulholland Drive to Jack Nicholson's house. Sitting next to him is an aspiring actress, Samantha Geimer, recently arrived from...
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
167 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This sharp, compelling legal drama from an acclaimed French journalist explores why a teenage victim lied about her rape and how the disadvantaged become scapegoats. At 15, Lisa was a typical teenager, at times rebellious and impulsive, adjusting to newfound attention from boys and men. But when her demeanor takes a sudden turn, her teachers suspect something worse than adolescent moodiness. Lisa eventually confesses that she's been abused, multiple...
7) No es no
Author
Publisher
Ediciones Urano
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
279 pages ; 22 cm
Language
Español
Description
"La agresión sexual es el acto criminal menos denunciado ante la policía. ¿Por qué? Porque la vergüenza y el miedo abruman a la víctima. Porque la víctima debe, encima de todo, hacer frente a los prejuicios originados por la cultura de la violación. Aún en nuestros días, este concepto nos dicta que "no debemos salir solas por las noches a menos de que busquemos problemas; no debemos usar ropa sexi porque provocamos a los hombres; no debemos...
Author
Publisher
Page Street Publishing Co
Pub. Date
[2021].
Physical Desc
vi, 346 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In the beginning, Owen's story was blank . . . then he was befriended by Lily, the aspiring author who helped him find his voice. Together, the two have spent years navigating first love and amassing an inseparable friend group. But all of it is upended one day when his school's administration learns Owen's secret: that he was sexually assaulted by a classmate."
Author
Publisher
Warner Wellness
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
xvii, 215 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"After the success of his brother Dave Pelzer's bestselling memoir, Richard B. Pelzer touched thousands with his own account of an abusive childhood. In his second book, Richard reveals how the horrific treatment he endured as a boy affected him throughout his teenage years. As an adolescent, he found himself turning to drugs--even contemplating suicide--as he struggled to separate and live an autonomous life, away from his horrifying family situation....
10) Hello girls
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Winona has been starving for life in the seemingly perfect home that she shares with her seemingly perfect father, celebrity weatherman Stormy Olsen. No one knows that he locks the pantry door to control her eating and leaves bruises where no one can see them. Lucille has been suffocating beneath the needs of her mother and her drug-dealing brother, wondering if there's more out there for her than disappearing waitress tips and a lifetime of barely...
11) Girl on the edge
Publisher
Artist View Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A troubled teenager falls victim to an online predator. Unable to cope with the trauma, Hannah Green becomes self destructive, and her parents make the heartbreaking decision to send her away to an alternative healing center in the wilderness.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
362 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"All Beth wants is for her tight-knit circle of friends--Grace Nakamura, Brandon Lin, Sunny Chen, and Jason Tsou--to stay together. With her family splintered and her future a question mark, these friends are all she has--even if she sometimes wonders if she truly fits in with them. Besides, she's certain she'll never be able to tell Jason how she really feels about him, so friendship will have to be enough. Then Beth witnesses a private act of violence...
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