"Outstanding, powerful, and important . . . This is, hands down, one of the best sexual assault reads in YA."-Book Riot What really happened at the party that night? Haley saw Jenny come back to the dorm, shell-shocked. Richard heard Jordan brag about the cute freshman he hooked up with. When Jenny accuses Jordan of rape, Jordan claims she's lying. Haley and Richard, who have just started dating, are pushed to opposite sides of the school's investigation. Will the truth ever come to light? Reputations, relationships, and whole lives depend on it. On the same night college freshman Haley sustains a career-ending concussion on the soccer field, her bookish roommate Jenny arrives home shell-shocked from a wild party. The next morning, on the other side of campus, Jordan brags to his housemate, Richard, about the cute freshman he hooked up with. When Jenny formally accuses Jordan of rape, gossip spreads like wildfire through the campus. Maria Padian has a bachelor's degree from Middlebury College and a master's degree from the University of Virginia. She is a freelance writer, essayist, and author of young adult novels, including Brett McCarthy: Work in Progress, Jersey Tomatoes Are the Best, and Out of Nowhere. Maria lives with her family in Brunswick, Maine. Visit her online at mariapadian.com and find her on Twitter: @mpadian. Fall 16 Kids' Indie Next Pick "Padian's latest boasts a swift, excellently crafted plot, exceedingly readable prose, and painfully relatable characters. It is especially surprising to find an affectionate involvement as believable as Haley and Richard's in the middle of a story centering on a rape investigation. Particularly relevant for high school seniors and college freshmen" -Booklist, starred review "Powerful, suspenseful and illuminating . . . With intriguing, flawed characters and a gripping storyline, Wrecked by Maria Padian offers readers a view of a college sexual assault case that is as engrossing as it is important . . . valuable, riveting." -Shelf Awareness for Readers, starred review "Rape on college campuses is a massive issue right now (hopefully not forever), and Maria Padian's new novel Wrecked delves into not just the emotional and physical toll it takes on survivors but the bureaucracy and red tape that exists within the structures that are supposed to be stopping it." -Bustle "Padian excels at showing the messy aftermath of a sexual crime in a college community . . . This is a novel about truth and the damage done-to a community, to a person, and to relationships-when hard truths are hidden . . . Wrecked should be assigned to all incoming freshman, especially fraternity members. It's not enough to have students sit through lectures about sexual assault and rape. They need to learn about it through a story where they see humans instead of statistics, and, as in Wrecked, the very real ripple effects that such a crime can have on an entire campus." -Portland (ME) Press Herald "Outstanding, powerful, and important . . . This is, hands down, one of the best sexual assault reads in YA, and it's a book that high schoolers of all genders should read." -Kelly Jensen, Book Riot "In the face of recent college rape trials, readers will be rapt and emotionally spent by the end. An important, devastating new perspective on an all-too-timely subject." -Kirkus Reviews "Revelatory, deeply real, and urgently important." -Nova Ren Suma, author of The Walls Around Us "This is an important and, unfortunately, timely novel . . . This isn't just a book that all young men and women should read; it's gripping and human enough that many will want to. Shelve and display alongside Laurie Halse Anderson's Speak and Courtney Summers's All the Rage." -School

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