sexual abuse

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A drop of venom

2024
"The legend of Medusa is retold as an empowering feminist tale in an Indian-mythology-inspired world"--Provided by publisher.

The secrets we keep

2022
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.

Dear Medusa

2023
"Follows 16-year-old Alicia, who feels isolated and alone after being sexually abused by a teacher, then cast as the slut who asked for it, until she receives mysterious letters hinting at another victim, forcing her to face her trauma and fight back"--Provided by publisher.

Delicious Monsters

2023
"Told in alternating timelines, seventeen-year-old Daisy and her mother move into her deceased uncle's mansion, only to find horrors waiting inside, and ten years later, Brittney investigates the mystery behind the Miracle Mansion that turned her mother's life around"--Provided by publisher.

Tell someone

2021
Explores the benefits of sharing when one is happy, sad, proud, or hurt--inside or out--and the importance of telling a trusted adult when someone makes one feel weird or wrong.

Off the record

2022
"A teen journalist uncovers the #METOO scandal of the decade: a bigshot Hollywood director is taking advantage of cast members"--Provided by publisher.

I'm the girl

a novel
2022
When sixteen-year-old Georgia Avis finds the dead body of thirteen-year-old Ashley James outside the gates of an exclusive resort, she teams up with Ashley's older sister Nora to find the killer, and she is thrown into a world of unimaginable wealth and privilege--and the fight for her life.

This May End Badly

2022
"Seventeen-year-old pranking mastermind Doe Saltpeter abandons her plans to win a rivalry with the neighboring boys' school and instead joins forces with her enemies to protect a younger student from a teacher's inappropriate behavior"--OCLC.

The wolves are waiting

2022
"Fifteen-year-old Nora sparks an investigation into institutional sexism in her small college town after she becomes the target of a fraternity game by athletes"--OCLC.

Caprice

After a wonderful seven weeks at Ainsley International School, twelve-year-old Caprice has been offered a full scholarship and she should be delighted, but instead she is full of doubts because what happened at the last night dance has brought back the memory of being sexually abused by her uncle as a four-year-old; worse, her maternal grandmother is ill, and that means going back to the house in Baltimore where it all happened--Caprice has never told anybody but now, as she realizes that her grandmother knew, she tries to find the words to tell someone, and the strength to finally confront her abuser.

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