Bullying & Abuse

Each year, eight beautiful girls are chosen as Paper Girls to serve the king. It's the highest honor they could hope for...and the most demeaning. This year, there's a ninth. And instead of paper, she's made of fire....

For months, Summer is trapped in a cellar with the man who took her - and three other girls. His perfect, pure flowers. His family. But flowers can't survive long cut off from the sun, and time is running out....

Fifteen-year-old Meredith hoped to never again see her father, who did something unspeakable to her....

Told over the span of 54 harrowing minutes from four different perspectives, terror reigns as one student's calculated revenge turns into the ultimate game of survival....

From best-selling and National Book Award-nominated author Tahereh Mafi comes a stunning novel about love and loneliness, navigating the hyphen of dual identity, and reclaiming your right to joy - even when you’re trapped in the amber of sorrow....

Clay Jensen returns from school to find a strange package on his porch. Inside he discovers several cassette tapes recorded by his classmate and crush, who committed suicide two weeks earlier....

Meet Billy Bloom, new student at the ultra-white, ultra-rich, ultra-conservative Dwight D. Eisenhower Academy and drag queen extraordinaire....

This audiobook is a story about two teens falling in love over a summer that throws everything possible to keep them apart. Over the course of one summer, two boys will have to face their biggest fears and decide what they're willing to risk to get the thing they want the most....

Emily Lonergan's best friend died last year. And Emily hasn't stopped grieving. Lizzie Porter was lively, loud, and fun - Emily's better half. Emily can't accept that she's gone. When Lizzie's parents and her sister come back to town to visit, Emily's heartened to see them....

The two-time Newbery Honor winner Gary D. Schmidt delivers the shattering story of Joseph, a father at 13, who has never seen his daughter, Jupiter....

Five teens victimized by sex trafficking try to find their way to a new life in this riveting companion to the New York Times best-selling Tricks....

Fourteen-year-old Carey and six-year-old Jenessa have lived in the woods with their mother for as long as they can remember....

At all costs. Whatever it takes. Coping is hard. Some find better ways than others. Getting from one day to the next isn’t easy. But what lengths will the island residents go to? And what if they find there are no limits? What is Ferdinan willing to do to get rid of the voice haunting him? How far will Jon go to protect his ally? And exactly what is Oya willing to do to eliminate Zephyr as a threat to her friend? Ferdinan, Jon, and Oya will soon discover these answers, though they may not like what they learn about themselves.

Theo is better now. She’s eating again, dating guys who are almost appropriate, and well on her way to becoming an elite ballet dancer. But when her oldest friend, Donovan, returns home after spending four long years with his kidnapper, Theo starts reliving memories about his abduction - and his abductor. Donovan isn’t talking about what happened, and even though Theo knows she didn’t do anything wrong, telling the truth would put everything she’s been living for at risk. But keeping quiet might be worse.