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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi leaves her poor mountain home in Nepal thinking that she is to work in the city as a maid only to find that she has been sold into the sex slave trade in India and that there is no hope of escape.
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Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Born in a Cambodian village, Somaly Mam was sold into sexual slavery by her grandfather at age twelve. For the next decade she was shuttled through the brothels that make up the sprawling sex trade of Southeast Asia. She suffered the brutality and horrors of human trafficking--rape, torture, deprivation--until she managed to escape with the help of a French aid worker. Emboldened by her newfound freedom, education, and security, Somaly blossomed but...
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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Today, two cultural forces are converging to make America's youth easy targets for sex traffickers. Younger and younger girls are engaging in adult sexual attitudes and practices, and the pressure to conform means thousands have little self-worth and are vulnerable to exploitation. At the same time, thanks to social media, texting, and chatting services, predators are able to ferret out their victims more easily than ever before. In Walking Prey,...
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Publisher
Soft Skull Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A Mexican journalist describes how her reporting of a sex trafficking ring in Cancun led to her own arrest, abuse, death threats, and legal persecution before she was vindicated and the Mexican government prosecuted the perpetrators for their crimes.
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Publisher
Zest Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
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In 1978 Christiane F. testified against a man who had traded heroin for sex with teenage girls at Berlin's notorious Zoo Station. In the course of that trial, Christiane F. became connected with two journalists who helped to turn her story, which begins with a dysfunctional but otherwise fairly normal childhood, into an acclaimed bestseller.
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