Patty Blount

Some girls say no. Some boys don't listen. When Grace meets Ian, she's afraid. Afraid he'll reject her like the rest of the school, like her own family. After she accuses Zac, the town golden boy, of rape, everyone turns against her. Ian wouldn't be the first to call her a slut and a liar. Except Ian doesn't reject her. He's the one person who looks past the taunts and the names and the tough-girl act to see the real Grace. He's the one who gives her the courage to fight back. He's also Zac's best friend. "A bold and necessary look at an important, and very real, topic. Everyone should read this book." — Jennifer Brown, author of Thousand Words and Hate List A gut-wrenching, powerful love story told from alternating points of view by the acclaimed author of Send.

Some Boys

"Giving up is easy, not right. If doing the right thing were easy, nobody would ever do stuff they know is wrong, like kiss their daughter's dance instructor or rape an unconscious girl who already said no.” 

"Grace is a girl. That's it. You want to slap on any other names, knock yourself out. But don't ever forget she's a girl first, and we don't treat girls like that. Feel me?"

The cops wanted to know if I was Zac's girlfriend, if I was drinking, doing drugs, if I ever I worked as a stripper, if I ever kissed Zac before that night. What the hell does any of that have to do with what happened? Do the laws against sexual assault not apply to strippers? To girlfriends? I don’t get that. 

Nobody gets it. I was with friends. People I know, people I’ve known for all of high school and even before that. I should have been able to stand there buck naked and be safe.

Being noticed isn’t an open invitation to guys to do whatever they want to me.

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