Books with title Confessions of a Teenage Rape Survivor

Before she was raped, almost sixteen-year-old Allison Sommer knew exactly what she wanted and was in total control of her life. Get through high school, go to college to appease her dad, somehow stay fit, lithe, and athletic through all the stress and become a professional cheerleader. Normal teenage stuff. Until she was raped. Now Allison isn’t sure what she wants anymore, so she just goes through the motions, hoping that eventually she’ll be able to go back to normal.That doesn’t happen, especially when she finds out she’s pregnant.The MTV commercials emphasize that she has nothing to be ashamed of and guide viewers to some website like don’t-be-a-victim.com and a support hotline.But no one warns her that the aftermath is more difficult than the rape itself, that her family’s efforts to be supportive make her feel more alone and confused than she ever felt without their support.But Allison doesn’t plan on letting anyone force her to do anything again, not like her rapists did, even if it makes her already difficult enough life more difficult. Uncensored and unflinchingly honest, these are the confessions of a teenage rape survivor.

Before she was raped, almost sixteen-year-old Allison Sommer knew exactly what she wanted and was in total control of her life. Get through high school, go to college to appease her dad, somehow stay fit, lithe, and athletic through all the stress and become a professional cheerleader. Normal teenage stuff. Until she was raped. Now Allison isn’t sure what she wants anymore, so she just goes through the motions, hoping that eventually she’ll be able to go back to normal. That doesn’t happen, especially when she finds out she’s pregnant. The MTV commercials emphasize that she has nothing to be ashamed of and guide viewers to some website like don’t-be-a-victim.com and a support hotline. But no one warns her that the aftermath is more difficult than the rape itself, that her family’s efforts to be supportive make her feel more alone and confused than she ever felt without their support. But Allison doesn’t plan on letting anyone force her to do anything again, not like her rapists did, even if it makes her already difficult enough life more difficult. Uncensored and unflinchingly honest, these are the confessions of a teenage rape survivor.

When people think of World of Warcraft, they think of a socially awkward, acne-faced teenager with "no life." Confessions of a Teenage Gamer challenges those stereotypes and shows how a kid from a wealthy family with every opportunity at his fingertips ended up finding himself in a video game. Confessions of a Teenage Gamer is funny in its honest retellings of teenage puberty, witty in its commentary on rich suburban life, and thought provoking in a way that questions the meaning behind success and happiness. This true story draws parallels between sports, music, and video games—and shows how, at the core, they teach many of the same lessons. With a successful spine surgeon for a father, a music teacher for a mother, and a house full of driven, high-achieving siblings, Nicolas Cole's Confessions of a Teenage Gamer shows how far one boy will go to chase his dream of becoming a professional gamer.

Part of the Confessions Universe, a series of interconnected stand-alone YA and NA novels featuring protagonists that struggle to overcome the burdens and drawbacks of a specific issue (drugs, eating disorders, trauma, etc.) and how that issue affects their personal, mental, psychological, and romantic lives. Real. Honest. Uncensored. Before she was raped, almost sixteen-year-old Allison Sommer knew exactly what she wanted and was in total control of her life. Get through high school, go to college to appease her dad, somehow stay fit, lithe, and athletic through all the stress and become a professional cheerleader. Normal teenage stuff. Simple. At least it was simple before she was raped. Now Allison's whole life is out of her control. She can't trust in her own choices, can't rationalize anything anymore, so she just goes through the motions, hoping that eventually she'll go back to normal, can stop pretending. That doesn't happen, especially when she's forced to reveal what happened to her family and closest friends. On the MTV commercials and reality shows that emphasize that she has nothing to be ashamed of and guide viewers to some website like don't-be-a-victim.com and a support hotline, no one warns her that the aftermath is more difficult than the rape itself, that her family's efforts to be supportive make her feel more alone and confused. And being raped has more devastating consequences than Allison ever imagined, forcing her to make one of the most difficult decisions she's ever had to make. It should be a no-brainer, everyone says, but being raped makes Allison question everything and everyone she thought she could trust. Either way, Allison won't let anyone force her to do anything again, not like her rapists did, even if it makes her already difficult enough circumstance more difficult. Uncensored and unflinchingly honest, these are the confessions of a teenage rape survivor.

When people think of World of Warcraft, they think of a socially awkward, acne-faced teenager with "no life." Confessions of a Teenage Gamer challenges those stereotypes and shows how a kid from a wealthy family with every opportunity at his fingertips ended up finding himself in a video game. Confessions of a Teenage Gamer is funny in its honest retellings of teenage puberty, witty in its commentary on rich suburban life, and thought provoking in a way that questions the meaning behind success and happiness. This true story draws parallels between sports, music, and video games—and shows how, at the core, they teach many of the same lessons. With a successful spine surgeon for a father, a music teacher for a mother, and a house full of driven, high-achieving siblings, Nicolas Cole's Confessions of a Teenage Gamer shows how far one boy will go to chase his dream of becoming a professional gamer.

Chloe Byrd is your average quirky high school senior, well-spoken, adventurous, and artistic. She attends Sansbury High with her two bestfriends, Zolie Mayfair and Gavin Delgado. Despite Chloe's shambolic life, she manages to meet Kaine Williams on a popular app called 'Tinder', are they truly the 'perfect' match?Graduation is less than two months away and Chloe, along with her friends, are at their breaking points. Bullying, family issues, and priorities are the four basic elements that can make you or break you in high school.Will they make it to graduation? or Will they crack under pressure?

Cheerleading, mean girls, shopping . . . and leprosy? High school is about to get complicated. For fans of Before I Fall and Exit, Pursued By a Bear.Abby Furlowe has plans. Big plans. She's hot, she's popular, she's a cheerleader and she's going to break out of her small Texas town and make it big. Fame and fortune, adoration and accolades. It'll all be hers. But then she notices some spots on her skin. She writes them off as a rash, but things only get worse. She's tired all the time, her hands and feet are numb and her face starts to look like day-old pizza. By the time her seventeenth birthday rolls around, she's tried every cream and medication the doctors have thrown at her, but nothing works. When she falls doing a routine cheerleading stunt and slips into a coma, her mystery illness goes into overdrive and finally gets diagnosed: Hansen's Disease, aka leprosy. Abby is sent to a facility to recover and deal with this new reality. Her many misdiagnoses mean that some permanent damage has been done, and all of her plans suddenly come tumbling down. If she can't even wear high heels anymore, what is the point of living? Cheerleading is out the window, and she might not even make it to prom. PROM!But it's during this recovery that Abby has to learn to live with something even more difficult than Hansen's Disease. She's becoming aware of who she really was before and what her behavior was doing to others; now she's on the other side of the fence looking in, and she doesn't like what she sees. . .Darkly comic but ultimately touching, Confessions of a Teenage Leper is an ugly duckling tale with a surprising twist.

Chloe Byrd is your average quirky high school senior, well-spoken, adventurous, and artistic. She attends Sansbury High with her two bestfriends, Zolie Mayfair and Gavin Delgado. Despite Chloe's shambolic life, she manages to meet Kaine Williams on a popular app called 'Tinder', are they truly the 'perfect' match? Graduation is less than two months away and Chloe, along with her friends, are at their breaking points. Bullying, sex, parties, and priorities are the four basic elements that can make you or break you in high school. Will they make it to graduation? or Will they crack under pressure?

Chloe Byrd is your average quirky high school senior, well-spoken, adventurous, and artistic. She attends Sansbury High with her two bestfriends, Zolie Mayfair and Gavin Delgado. Despite Chloe's shambolic life, she manages to meet Kaine Williams on a popular app called 'Tinder', are they truly the 'perfect' match? Graduation is less than two months away and Chloe, along with her friends, are at their breaking points. Bullying, sex, parties, and priorities are the four basic elements that can make you or break you in high school. Will they make it to graduation? or Will they crack under pressure?

axeman n. 1. one skilled at felling and cutting timber, sometimes in competition. 2. Mega-ace guitarist; musician extraordinaire (e.g. Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin), The axeman was the star of the concert 15-year-old Brad Radley is dragged from his home in the city – his friends, his girl, his band, his beach – to a rural hell hole so his dad can follow his dream of ‘interacting with alien life forms’.Little green men? Really? Really?But Brad’s dream come true when rock and roll legend, Davey Hathaway asks him to play guitar in his comeback concert at a small country pub in the small country town where Brad and his parents have moved to. Except there's no way on Earth Brad's parents will let him play the gig.All of that changes when Brad becomes foot-loose and parent-free for the foreseeable future when, yes, aliens answer his Dad’s invitation to ‘drop in anytime.’ Brad is free to play the gig, but he also has to deal with girlfriends (unexpected!), the school bully and two interplanetary visitors who have no understanding of earthling teenagers or the customs of ‘hanging out’ and ‘chasing chicks’.It’s a steep and sometimes painful learning curve for Brad - and his alien minders - but he manages to sort out his love life, his standing in the school community and get to play the gig, all before his parents come back from . . . deepest darkest space.That's rock and roll!