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Tag: Rape
Book Review: Tonight We Rule the World by Zack Smedley
A painful and important look at toxic relationships, rape, power, and control from a vantage point not often seen in YA.
The Bad Man With the Nice Smile, a guest post by Victoria Lee
Lee shares why varied representation of victim/survivors and abusers in literature is needed in this brutally personal and important post.
Healing Is Not a Journey We Take Alone, a guest post by Bree Barton
Author Bree Barton shares her story (and that of her sister) of sexual assault, power, survival, and healing.
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Book Review: Girl Made of Stars by Ashley Herring Blake
Publisher’s description For readers of Girl in Pieces and The Way I Used to Be comes an emotionally gripping story about facing hard truths in the aftermath of sexual assault. Mara and Owen are as close as twins can get, so when Mara’s friend Hannah accuses Owen of rape, Mara doesn’t know what to think. Can her brother really […]
Book Review: Blood Water Paint by Joy McCullough
Publisher’s description Her mother died when she was twelve, and suddenly Artemisia Gentileschi had a stark choice: a life as a nun in a convent or a life grinding pigment for her father’s paint. She chose paint. By the time she was seventeen, Artemisia did more than grind pigment. She was one of Rome’s most […]
#SVYALit Book Review: Rani Patel in Full Effect by Sonia Patel
Publisher’s description Almost seventeen, Rani Patel appears to be a kick-ass Indian girl breaking cultural norms as a hip-hop performer in full effect. But in truth, she’s a nerdy flat-chested nobody who lives with her Gujarati immigrant parents on the remote Hawaiian island of Moloka’i, isolated from her high school peers by the unsettling norms […]
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#SVYALit Book Review: Wrecked by Maria Padian
Publisher’s description Everyone has heard a different version of what happened that night at MacCallum College. Haley was already in bed when her roommate, Jenny, arrived home shell-shocked from the wild Conundrum House party. Richard heard his housemate Jordan brag about the cute freshman he hooked up with. When Jenny formally accuses Jordan of rape, […]
Rural Poverty and THE FEMALE OF THE SPECIES by Mindy McGinnis
Sometimes, it is indeed a small world after all. Shortly after moving to Texas, I learned that author Mindy McGinnis lived just 10 minutes from the very library I had spent the last 10 years working at in the state of Ohio. This town was my home, the place where my children were born. It […]
Book Review: The Way I Used To Be by Amber Smith
Publisher’s description In the tradition of Speak, this extraordinary debut novel shares the unforgettable story of a young woman as she struggles to find strength in the aftermath of an assault. Eden was always good at being good. Starting high school didn’t change who she was. But the night her brother’s best friend rapes her, […]
Book Review: The Word for Yes by Claire Needell
Publisher’s description At once honest and touching, Claire Needell’s debut novel is a moving look at date rape and its aftermath, at the love and conflicts among sisters and friends, and how these relationships can hold us together—and tear us apart. The gap between the Russell sisters—Jan, Erika, and Melanie—widens as each day passes. Then, […]
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