Blood water paint by McCullough, Joy 

Paperback(Dutton Books, 2019)

BTSB #: 622330 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   
AR: 5.5 UG RC: 5.5 9-12

Genres: Historical Fiction

Subjects: Gentileschi, Artemisia,|d1593-1652 or 1653 - Fiction Novels in verse Artists - Fiction Sex role - Fiction Rape - Fiction Trials (Rape) - Fiction Renaissance - Italy - Fiction Italy - History|y1559-1789 - Fiction

Summary: In Renaissance Italy, Artemisia Gentileschi endures the subjugation of women that allows her father to take credit for her extraordinary paintings, rape and the ensuing trial, and torture, buoyed by her deceased mother's stories of strong women of the Bible.

Faking normal by Stevens, Courtney C. 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2014)

BTSB #: P02377 Available

Dewey: FAges: 13-18   


Genres:

Subjects: Rape - Fiction Grief - Fiction Interpersonal relations - Fiction Friendship - Fiction Self-mutilation - Fiction Death - Fiction

Summary: A sixteen-year-old girl who is struggling to forget what happened to her last summer gets help to finally speak up from the awkward boy next door with his own family secrets.

Female of the species by McGinnis, Mindy 

Paperback(HarperCollins, 2017)

BTSB #: 111733 Available

Dewey: FAges: 15-18   


Genres:

Subjects: Teenagers - Fiction High school students - Fiction Friendship - Fiction Vigilantes - Fiction Vulgarity in popular culture - Fiction Interpersonal relations - Fiction Rape - Fiction

Summary: Told from differing viewpoints, Alex, Jack, and Peekay navigate high school in their small town, as Alex's violent streak intensifies and they all eventually experience a violent, deadly encounter because the guy who murdered Alex's older sister, Anna, three years ago was able to walk free.

Girl like that by Bhathena, Tanaz 

Paperback(Square Fish, 2019)

BTSB #: 118520 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   
AR: 5.9 UG RC: 5.7 9-12 Lexile: 890

Genres: Multicultural

Subjects: East Indians - Saudi Arabia - Fiction Dating (Social customs) - Fiction Rape - Fiction Bullying - Fiction Religion - Fiction High schools - Fiction School stories Jiddah (Saudi Arabia) - Fiction Saudi Arabia - Fiction

Summary: In Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, sixteen-year-old half-Hindu/half-Parsi Zarin Wadia is the class troublemaker and top subject for the school rumor blogs, regularly leaving class to smoke cigarettes in cars with boys, but she also desperately wants to grow up and move out of her aunt and uncle's house, perhaps realizing too late that Porus, another non-Muslim Indian who risks deportation but remains devoted to Zarin, could help her escape.

Girls like us by Giles, Gail 

BTSB Prebound(Candlewick Press, 2014)

BTSB #: 379219 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   
AR: 4 UG RC: 5.3 9-12 Lexile: 570 HL

Genres:

Subjects: People with mental disabilities - Fiction Roommates - Fiction Rape - Fiction Friendship - Fiction

Summary: Graduating from their school's special education program, Quincy and Biddy are placed together in their first independent apartment and discover unexpected things they have in common in the face of past challenges and a harrowing trauma.

Speak by Anderson, Laurie Halse 

Paperback(Square Fish, 1999)

BTSB #: 059016 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   
AR: 4.5 UG RC: 7.1 9-12 Lexile: 690 F&P: Z

Genres: General Fiction

Subjects: High schools - Fiction School stories Emotional problems - Fiction Rape - Fiction

Summary: A traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating effect on Melinda's freshman year in high school.

Speak by Anderson, Laurie Halse 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2013)

BTSB #: P02156 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   


Genres:

Subjects: Emotional problems - Fiction Rape - Fiction High schools - Fiction Teenage girls - Fiction

Summary: A traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating effect on Melinda's freshman year in high school.

Speak : the graphic novel by Anderson, Laurie Halse 

BTSB Prebound(Farrar Straus Giroux, 2018)

BTSB #: 059005 Available

Dewey: 741.5/NAges: 13-18   
AR: 4 MG+RC: 7.1 9-12 Lexile: 550 GN

Genres:

Subjects: Graphic novels Emotional problems - Fiction High schools - Fiction Rape - Fiction

Summary: A graphic novel adaptation of Speak. A traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating effect on Melinda's freshman year in high school.