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Author O'Neill, Louise, 1985-

Title Asking for it / Louise O'Neill.

Imprint New York : Quercus, 2016.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 PHS Fiction  RE F O'Neill    ---  Available
Description 324 p. ; 21 cm.
Study Program UG RL 4.8 11.0 187527
Indexed In: School Library Journal starred, April 2016
Publisher's Weekly, February 2016
Booklist, March 2016
New York Times, April 2016
Summary "Emma O'Donovan is eighteen, beautiful, and fearless. It's the beginning of summer in a quiet Irish town and tonight she and her friends have dressed to impress. Everyone is at the party, and all eyes are on Emma. The next morning Emma's parents discover her collapsed on the doorstep of their home, unconscious. She is disheveled, bleeding, and disoriented, looking as if she had been dumped there in a hurry ... [Relates] the devastating effects of rape and public shaming, told through the awful experience of a young woman whose life is changed forever by an act of violence."--Provided by publisher.
Audience Young Adult Follett School Solutions.
Awards Michael L. Printz Award/Honors, 2017
Subject Young women -- Fiction.
Rape -- Fiction.
Ireland -- Fiction.
ISBN 9781681445373

 
    
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