Tag: Sexual Violence in Young Adult Literature

October 15, 2020 by Amanda MacGregor

Book Review: You Know I’m No Good by Jessie Ann Foley

This is one of those great books that manages to be both devastatingly sad and hopeful. Mia is a fierce character who works hard to keep her walls built up around her, but experiences real, believable growth over the course of the story.

March 17, 2020 by Amanda MacGregor

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.

April 25, 2017 by Amanda MacGregor

#SJYALit: Ten Young Adult Novels for Sexual Assault Awareness Month, a guest post by Clara Kensie

April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. The statistics are horrifying, staggering, alarming, shameful: One in five women and one in 71 men will be raped at some point in their lives. One in four girls and one in six boys will be sexually abused before they turn 18 years old. The National Sexual Violence Resource […]