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**This young adult novel won the American Library Association Top Ten Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers Award.** Violence runs rampant on the urban streets of Washington, DC, and on one seemingly quiet day, the Odom family finds its world destroyed when seventeen-year-old Tashera is brutally attacked by a group of high school girls. Retaliation exposes the corrupting existence of violence in our communities and the retaliatory measures families go through to protect themselves and their children. 17 year old Tashera is a hero in her own right. She does what many African American teens do every day, she rises above her circumstances. *** Librarians, Middle School and High School Students, Boys and Girls Clubs, After School programs across the United States use Retaliation in talking to their students about youth violence. It is a real conversation starter. If you are looking for a book that young people will connect with, Retaliation is your novel. Retaliation helps students open up about: --Bullying --Girl Fights --Gangs --Youth Violence --Teen Relationships --Violent Parents

Yasmin Shiraz is the author of several other books including Accused, the 2nd book in the Retaliation series as well as The Blueprint for My Girls and The Blueprint for My Girls in Love. Her adult fiction novels include the Tisha Ariel Nikkole novel series with two novels entitled, Exclusive and Privacy, respectively. When not writing books, she is producing films and web series. She wrote and directed the documentary film, Can She Be Saved and the teen suicide prevention webseries, Sources.