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#MeToo for Teens

Books about gender inequality, sexual harassment, and sexual assault. #WCCLS #AlohaLibrary

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  • Here is one remarkable author’s exploration of what it means to be a woman now—and an of-the-moment rallying cry for why we should all be feminists.
    BookNew York : Anchor Books, [2015] — 305.4 ADICHIE Chimamanda
  • Fifteen-year-old Janna Yusuf tries to make sense of the events that follow when her best friend's cousin attempts to assault her at the end of sophomore year.
    BookNew York : Salaam Reads, [2017] — YA ALI, S.
  • A traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating effect on Melinda's freshman year in high school.
    BookNew York : Speak, 2006. — YA ANDERSON Laurie Halse
  • A graphic novel adaptation of Speak.
    Graphic NovelNew York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2018. — YAGRAPHIC SPEAK
  • In free verse, Anderson shares reflections, rants, and calls to action woven between deeply personal stories from her life that she's never written about before.
    BookNew York : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2019. — 811.54 ANDERSON 2019
  • When her boyfriend breaks up with her, Nina is lost. What is she if not a girlfriend? What is she made of? Broken-hearted, Nina tries to figure out what the conditions of love are.
    BookMinneapolis : Carolrhoda Lab, [2017] — YA ARNOLD, E.
  • There is more to the legends of the dragons and the damsels than anyone knows, and the greatest threats may not be behind her, but around her, now, and closing in.
    BookNew York, NY : Balzer + Bray, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2018] — YA ARNOLD, ELANA
  • When high school student Clay Jenkins receives a box in the mail containing thirteen cassette tapes recorded by his classmate Hannah, he spends a bewildering and heartbreaking night crisscrossing their town, listening to her voice…
    BookNew York : Razorbill, [2007] — YA ASHER, J.
  • Followed by Grandpa Ed in his RV and backed by her brother and friends, Annabelle runs from Seattle to Washington, D.C., becoming a reluctant activist as people connect her journey to her recent trauma.
    BookNew York : Simon Pulse, 2018. — YA CALETTI, D.
  • After narrowly escaping death, a teen struggles to come to terms with her guilt over the classmate who was raped and murdered instead.
    BookNew York ; Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 2018. — YA CROCKETT Mary
  • At Fullbrook Academy, where tradition reigns supreme, James Baxter and Jules Devereux take on privilege, sexism, and the importance of consent.
    BookNew York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, [2018] — YA KIELY Brendan
  • An astonishing re-working of the fairy-tale Snow White and Rose Red, this novel is fraught with the tension between love and horror, violence and tenderness, despair and hope.
    BookLondon : Vintage, 2010. — YA LANAGAN Margo
  • High school senior and football player Keir sets out to enjoy himself on graduation night, but when he attempts to comfort a friend whose date has left her stranded, things go terribly wrong.
    BookNew York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2005. — YA LYN
  • In a small Texas town where high school football reigns supreme, Viv, sixteen, starts a feminist revolution using anonymously-written zines.
    BookNew York : Roaring Brook Press, 2017. — YA MATHIEU, J.
  • She can't remember what happened, she doesn't know how she got there. She doesn't know why she's in pain. But everyone else does. Photographs taken at the party show, in explicit detail, what happened to Emma that night.
    BookNew York : Quercus, 2016. — YA O'NEILL Louise
  • Three misfit girls come together to avenge the rape of a girl none of them knew and in the process start a movement that transforms the lives of everyone around them.
    BookNew York : Simon Pulse, 2017. — Y REED
  • Frustrated by the way women are treated, two best friends start a Women's Rights Club, post their essays and poems online, and watch it go viral, attracting positive support as well as trolls.
    BookNew York : Bloomsbury, 2019. — YA WATSON, REN
  • When Alex, a junior at an elite preparatory school, realizes that she may have been the victim of date rape, she confides in her roommates and sister who convince her to seek help from a secret society, the Mockingbirds.
    BookNew York : Little, Brown, 2010.