Teens swear often, including 'crap,' s-t,' 'ass,' 'f-k,' and 'd-k.' Teen boys use derogatory and sexist language such as 'slut,' 'bitch,' and 'whore,' and in some instances brag about exploiting girls. Teen girls speak frankly about relationships, sex, as well as experiences with sexual assault and rape.

There are several references to teens drinking, sometimes to excess.

Instances of sexual assault are described in some detail but discussed with sensitivity. The cast of characters represent a variety of identities and family backgrounds, providing lessons on feminism, racism, ability, socioeconomic class, religion, and sexuality from many perspectives. Parents need to know that Amy Reed's The Nowhere Girls takes on big topics like trauma, activism, and the importance of consent as it follows three misfits, Grace, Erin, and Rosina, who start a movement to end the rape culture at their small-town high school. Mentions of getting drunk, vomiting, hangovers.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide. Told in alternating perspectives, this groundbreaking novel is an indictment of rape culture and explores with bold honesty the deepest questions about teen girls and sexuality.Teens throw parties and drink alcohol. For their own personal reasons, Rosina and Erin feel equally deeply about Lucy's tragedy, so they form an anonymous group of girls at Prescott High to resist the sexist culture at their school, which includes boycotting sex of any kind with the male students. When Grace learns that Lucy Moynihan, the former occupant of her new home, was run out of town for having accused the popular guys at school of gang rape, she's incensed that Lucy never had justice. Rosina Suarez is the queer punk girl in a conservative Mexican immigrant family, who dreams of a life playing music instead of babysitting her gaggle of cousins and waitressing at her uncle's restaurant.Įrin Delillo is obsessed with two things: marine biology and Star Trek: The Next Generation, but they aren't enough to distract her from her suspicion that she may in fact be an android. Grace Salter is the new girl in town, whose family was run out of their former community after her southern Baptist preacher mom turned into a radical liberal after falling off a horse and bumping her head.

The Nowhere Girls by Amy Reed