Dear Medusa / Olivia A. Cole.
"Sixteen-year-old Alicia Rivers has a reputation that precedes her. But there's more to her story than the whispers that follow her throughout the hallways at school--whispers that splinter into a million different insults that really mean: a girl who has had sex. But what her classmates don't know is that Alicia was sexually abused by a popular teacher, and that trauma has rewritten every cell in her body into someone she doesn't recognize. To the world around her, she's been cast, like the mythical Medusa, as not the victim but the monster of her own story: the slut who asked for it. Alicia was abandoned by her best friend, quit the track team, and now spends her days in detention feeling isolated and invisible. When mysterious letters left in her locker hint at another victim, Alicia struggles to keep up the walls she's built around her trauma. At the same time, her growing attraction to a new girl in school makes her question what those walls are really keeping out." --Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780593485736
- ISBN: 0593485734
- Physical Description: 377 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: New York : Labyrinth Road, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, [2023].
- Copyright: ©2023
Content descriptions
- Target Audience Note:
- Ages 14 and up.NP Lexile.NP Lexile
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- Medusa (Gorgon) > Fiction.
Sex crimes > Fiction.
Child sexual abuse by teachers > Fiction.
Child sexual abuse > Fiction.
Sexual abuse victims > Fiction.
Sexually abused children > Fiction.
Psychic trauma > Fiction.
Letters > Fiction.
Confidence > Fiction.
Self-realization > Fiction.
Bullying > Fiction.
Social isolation > Fiction.
Blaming the victim > Fiction.
Lesbians > Fiction.
Sexual violence.
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Lesbian fiction. - Genre:
- Lesbian fiction.
School fiction.
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Social problem fiction.
Novels in verse.
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Available copies
- 34 of 36 copies available at NC Cardinal.
- 1 of 1 copy available at McDowell County Public Library. (Show)
Holds
- 0 current holds with 36 total copies.
Show Only Available Copies
| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Old Fort Branch Library | YA COL (Text) | 37810460011736 | Young Adult New Fiction | Available | - |
| Donald A. Bonner Rowland Library | YA COLE (Text) | 34510611108976 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| East Asheville Library | YA COL (Text) | 0020660065838 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Eden Library | YA Fic (Text) | 31554010974086 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| George H. & Laura E. Brown Library | YAF Col (Text) | 30308101322650 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Goldsboro Library | YA COL (Text) | 900005000181940 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Gunn Memorial Public Library | YA F COL (Text) | 34621991245211 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Henderson Main Branch | COL (Text) | 33258010242361 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| High Point Library | YA FIC Cole Olivia (Text) | 30519010877069 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Hocutt-Ellington Memorial Library | YA Cole (Text) | 39523000173761 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
