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1) Blood family
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Language
English
Description
A boy with an abusive father grows up and fears that he has the same potential for violence as his father has.
2) Sparrow
Author
Publisher
A Tom Doherty Associates book, Tor Teen
Language
English
Description
A talented young ballerina, raised to believe in the virtue of silence by her long-dead mother, struggles to find the courage to ask for help in the aftermath of a devastating assault.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
A talented 16-year-old artist slowly discovers the history of domestic violence behind why her brother left the family years earlier and why she suddenly cannot make art.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Language
English
Description
Knowing that the friendships she depends on will change when her parents split up, Beth witnesses a private act of violence in her crush's home before forging a pact with her friends to offer support in the face of a life-altering decision.
Author
Publisher
Bellevue Literary Press
Language
English
Description
"When a young woman returns to her childhood home after her estranged father's death, she begins to piece together the final years of his life. What changed him from a prominent left-wing journalist to a bitter racist who defended the murder of a defenseless African immigrant? Kramer exposes a country gripped by intolerance and violence to unearth the source of a family's fall from grace. Set in Paris and its suburbs, and inspired by the real-life...
Author
Publisher
James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers
Language
English
Description
A powerfully illustrated graphic novel for teens about the subject of missing and murdered Indigenous people. Combining graphic fiction and non-fiction, this young adult graphic novel serves as a window into one of the unique dangers of being an Indigenous teen in Canada today. The text of the book is derived from excerpts of a letter written to the Winnipeg Chief of Police by fourteen-year-old Brianna Jonnie -- a letter that went viral and in which,...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
On her eighteenth birthday, Cleo is given clues for a mysterious scavenger hunt that sends her around Columbus, Ohio, and through her past relationship with Declan, who drowned on a group rafting trip the previous year.
10) 23 minutes
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press, an imprint of Highlights
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Witnessing a bank robbery gone awry, misfit 15-year-old Zoe, a girl with supernatural ability to jump back in time and repeat events with up to 10 tries, attempts to stop the crime, but only makes things worse with each successive effort.
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
A gun is sold in the classifieds after killing a spouse. It is bought by a teenager for needed protection. Several people have the incentive to pick up a gun, to fire it. Was it Rand or Cami, married teenagers with a young son? Was it Silas or Ashlyn, members of a white supremacist youth organization? Daniel, who fears retaliation because of his race, who possessively clings to Grace, the love of his life? Or Noelle, who lost everything after a devastating...
12) Bog child
Author
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In 1981, the height of Ireland's "Troubles," eighteen-year-old Fergus is distracted from his upcoming A-level exams by his imprisoned brother's hunger strike, the stress of being a courier for Sinn Fein, and dreams of a murdered girl whose body he discovered in a bog.
13) Dear Medusa
Author
Publisher
Labyrinth Road, an imprint of Random House Children's Books
Language
English
Description
"Sixteen-year-old Alicia Rivers has a reputation that precedes her. But there's more to her story than the whispers that follow her throughout the hallways at school--whispers that splinter into a million different insults that really mean: a girl who has had sex. But what her classmates don't know is that Alicia was sexually abused by a popular teacher, and that trauma has rewritten every cell in her body into someone she doesn't recognize. To the...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
After committing suicide just before high school graduation, Ellie Walker haunts her home and school, reflecting on her life of domestic violence, friendship with August, and dreams of a writing career. Includes list of resources for people in crisis.
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