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Description

1. 377 pages; 22 cm

Summary

1. "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.

Subject

1. Sexual abuse victims > Juvenile fiction
2. Teacher-student relationships > Juvenile fiction
3. Lesbians > Juvenile fiction
4. Psychic trauma > Juvenile fiction
5. Sex crimes > Fiction
6. Sexual abuse victims > Fiction
7. Teacher-student relationships > Fiction
8. Lesbians > Fiction
9. Lesbian teenagers > Fiction
10. High school students > Fiction
11. Young adult fiction
12. Lesbians
13. Psychic trauma
14. Sex crimes
15. Sexual abuse victims
16. Teacher-student relationships
17. Sex crimes victims > Juvenile fiction
18. Teacher-student relationship > Juvenile fiction
19. Teacher-student relationship > Fiction
20. LGBTQ+ people
21. LGBTQ+ people > Juvenile fiction
22. LGBTQ+ youth
23. Lesbian youth
24. Sexual minorities
25. Sexual minorities > Juvenile fiction
26. Sexual violence
27. Lesbian teenagers
28. High school students

Genre/Form

1. Young adult fiction.
2. Fiction.
3. Juvenile works.
4. Lesbian fiction.
5. Novels in verse.
6. Social problem fiction.
7. LGBTQ+ fiction.

Call number

1. JFD 24-494

Audience (note)

1. NP

Author

1. Cole, Olivia A., author.

Title

1. Dear Medusa / Olivia A. Cole.

Publisher

1. New York : Labyrinth Road, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, [2023]

Copyright date

1. ©2023

Edition

1. First edition.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Audience

1. NP Lexile

ISBN

1. 9780593485736 (hardcover)
2. 0593485734 (hardcover)
3. 9780593485743 (library binding)
4. 0593485742 (library binding)
5. 9780593485767 (paperback)
6. 0593485769 (paperback)

Research call number

1. JFD 24-494