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Not your idol

2020
"In the wake of an assault, Nina Kamiyama, a former idol in the group Pure Club, shuns her femininity and starts dressing as a boy. At high school, she keeps to herself, but fellow student Hikaru Horiuchi realizes who she is. What secrets is she keeping? The shocking drama starts"--Back cover.

Speak

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

Girl made of stars

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.

You too?

25 voices share their #MeToo stories
Presents twenty-five essays about the sexual harassment and abuse the various authors experienced.

Una chica como ella

"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"--Publisher provided.

Punch like a girl

"After Tori is sexually assaulted, she tells no one and her rage and confusion erupt into violent behavior that mystifies her friends and family"--Publisher.

Exit, pursued by a bear

At cheerleading camp, Hermione is drugged and raped, but she is not sure whether it was one of her teammates or a boy on another team--and in the aftermath she has to deal with the rumors in her small Ontario town, the often awkward reaction of her classmates, the rejection of her boyfriend, the discovery that her best friend, Polly, is gay, and above all the need to remember what happened so that the guilty boy can be brought to justice.

The mirror season

2021
After Ciela and Lock are sexually assaulted at the same party, they develop a cautious friendship through her family's possibly-magical pasteler?a and his secret forest of otherworldly trees.
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Defining sexual consent

where the law falls short
2019
"Several years before the revelations around sexual harassment and misconduct in Hollywood sparked the #metoo movement, colleges and universities across America were reeling from a series of assaults that challenged the way sexual consent had been taught. The articles collected here detail the evolution of the debate, from individual cases that captured national attention to the implementation of California's Affirmative Consent law. Beyond highlighting the legal and administrative responses to these cases, this book also features stories of the consequences students have faced in their daily lives as they navigate the debate"--Provided by publisher.

Coping with sexual consent

2020
Readers will discover what it means to survive and heal from nonconsensual acts, how to access survivor-specific resources, and how to dispel prevalent myths.

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