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Owen and his best friend, Sean, have lived on Cape Cod all their lives. When Sean's mother hires a babysitter to look after Sean, they're upset-- they're eleven! Too old for a babysitter! Paul is in his twenties, and a well-liked guy from church. When Paul starts doing things to Sean that just feel wrong, he tells Owen, and no one else. Sean warns him not to tell anyone what is happening. But if Owen doesn't tell, could something even worse happen...
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2022.
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95 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
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"In You Ruined It, author Anastasia Higginbotham sheds light on the confusion and pain that many children feel in the aftermath of incest and sexual assault. When 11-year-old Dawn discloses that a favorite cousin sexually assaulted her, it's hard to tell what hurts more: the betrayal or the fall-out. After all, everyone always says to tell someone, but does this mean she'll never get to hang out with him again? What if he goes to jail? And the biggest...
4) Open secrets
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2021.
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191 pages ; 20 cm.
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"The #MeToo movement has revealed the prevalence of sexual assault in society, especially as committed by powerful men. But it is an issue that also affects the lives of teen girls. This book tells the story of seventeen year-old Ana Santos, who has ambitions to make it big in music and signs a contract with the owner of a music café without knowing there are sexual strings attached. It looks at the darker side of the music industry, including sexual...
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[2018]
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330 pages ; 22 cm
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A new pair of shoes, a university degree, a husband -- these are the things that a girl dreams of in a Nigerian village. And with a government scholarship right around the corner, everyone can see that these dreams aren't too far out of reach. But the girl's dreams turn to nightmares when her village is attacked by Boko Haram, a terrorist group, in the middle of the night. Kidnapped, she is taken with other girls and women into the forest where she...
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[2018]
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276 pages ; 22 cm.
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It's the calm before the storm of World War II in 1939 in small-town Messina, California. Angie Wallace and her friends have set out on a mission to "love thy neighbor"--even if that means inviting weird Dodie Crumper to join in their summer plans. But as they move through their neighborly to-do list, the girls can't help but notice that there's something strange about the sudden return of Jefferson Clement. He might be well-dressed and respected,...
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