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Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Sexual violence against our children is a real, everyday danger. Unfortunately, not many of us know the right way to think about and address such a sensitive topic. Protecting Your Child From Sexual Abuse empowers parents and educators by providing knowledge about a subject that is hard for many to discuss. Seeking both to dispel misconceptions, this guide presents accessible and comprehensive evidence to equip guardians with practical solutions designed...
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Français
Description
François Ozon's gripping drama follows three men who band together to dismantle the code of silence that continues to protect a priest who abused them decades ago. Based on events from the 2019 conviction of Cardinal Philippe Barbarin of Lyon for concealing the conduct of Father Bernard Preynat, the film compassionately illustrates the varying effects of trauma on survivors and their families in an urgent portrait of resistance, the power of mobilization,...
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"At thirteen years old, Stephen Mills is chosen for special attention by the director of his Jewish summer camp, a charismatic social worker. Stephen, whose father had died when he was four, places his trust in this authority figure, who then grooms and molests him for two years. The boy tells no one, but the aftershocks rip through his life: self-loathing, drugs, petty crime, and horrific nightmares, all made worse by the discovery that his abuser...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Saints and misfits novels volume 1
Publisher
Salaam Reads
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Appears on list
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.
Author
Publisher
Zando Young Readers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"After being placed in foster care, Rhi is hungry for a fresh start and begins working at the Happy Valley Wildlife Preserve. While in the woods, she stumbles upon a surreal sight: a pack of wolves guarding four feral and majestic girls. After Rhi gains their trust, they reveal that they're princesses from another land, raised by a magical prophet they call Mother--and they're convinced Rhi is their lost fifth sister. Unsure what to believe, Rhi...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When Mara's twin brother Owen is accused of rape by her friend Hannah, Mara is forced to confront her feelings about her family, her sense of right and wrong, a trauma from her past, and the future with her girlfriend, Charlie.
13) Break the fall
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
A year after being nearly paralyzed, Audrey Lee is going to the Olympics but the United States' gymnastics team is on the verge of collapse and Leo, her new coach's cute son, is another distraction.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"The riveting narrative of an honorable Irish priest who finds the church collapsing around him at a pivotal moment in its history. Propelled into the priesthood by a family tragedy, Odran Yates is full of hope and ambition. When he arrives at Clonliffe Seminary in the 1970s, it is a time in Ireland when priests are highly respected, and Odran believes that he is pledging his life to "the good." Forty years later, Odran's devotion is caught in revelations...
Author
Series
Publisher
Abdo & Daughters, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In this title, readers learn about the #MeToo movement, from early legislation to prevent sexual harassment to the movement's expansion in the aftermath of accusations against Harvey Weinstein, the Silence Breakers, #Time'sUp, and the individuals behind the movement such as Tarana Burke and Alyssa Milano. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo & Daughters is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A victim of sex trafficking, Dylan, when a new law is passed, allowing him to sue his abusers, is forced to look back on what happened to him, exploring a drug and sex-fueled world of bathhouses, clubs and strangers’ apartments, emerging with a new purpose—extracting justice on his own terms.
18) Somebody told me
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Lab
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
After an assault at an anime convention, bigender seventeen-year-old Aleks/Alexis moves in with their uncle, a Catholic priest, and decides to help strangers anonymously after overhearing parishioners' confessions.
19) Edinburgh
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Fee is a shy Korean American boy and a newly named section leader of the first sopranos in his local boys choir. But when Fee learns how the director treats his section leaders, he is so ashamed he says nothing of the abuse, not even when Peter, his best friend, is in line to be next. When the director is arrested, Fee tries to forgive himself for his silence. But when Peter takes his own life, Fee blames only himself. In the...
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