August 1793. Fourteen-year-ole Mattie Cook is ambitious, adventurous, and sick to death of listening to her mother. Mattie has plans of her own. Then tragedy strikes her home and Mattie is trapped in a living nightmare. Suddenly, her struggle to build a better life must give way to something even more important--the fight to stay alive.

"Hayley Kincaid and her father move back to their hometown to try a 'normal' life, but the horrors he saw in the war threaten to destroy their lives"--

"A memoir in poetry by one of our time's most crucial activists for sexual assault"-- "In free verse, Anderson shares reflections, rants, and calls to action woven among deeply personal stories from her life that she's never written about before. Praised as "captivating," "powerful," and "essential" by critics, this searing and soul-searching memoir is a denouncement of our society's failures and a love letter to all the people with the courage to...

"Speak up for yourself―we want to know what you have to say."

From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a big fat lie, part of the nonsense of high school. She is friendless, outcast, because she busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops, so now nobody will talk to her, let alone listen to her. As time passes, she becomes increasingly isolated and practically stops talking altogether....