Some Boys by Patty Blount is the story of a girl who is raped by a school sports star, Zac, and then is ostracized by everyone around her and branded like a slut. It's a familiar story, we hear about it too often in the press. It's an important story, and a reminder that we need to continue having conversations with teens about what sexual violence and sexual consent are and aren't. It's also a story where a raped girl is labeled a slut and ostracized by her community instead of being supported. Part of the reason this happens is that many of our school systems value sports – which can generate revenue and good press – over people, so we are often willing to overlook the bad behavior of our sports stars. It is cognitively easier for us to blame the victim and ignore the severity of the crime than to tear down the ideals we build in our minds about these men and women we declare “stars”; we write cultural narratives that idolize our subjects, and when we receive contradictory information, we realize that we have such great difficulty with this inconsistent information that it is easier for us to deflect blame elsewhere. This is one of the reasons why we continue to talk about "slut shaming". As Christa Desir points out repeatedly, slut-shaming is one reason why more Some Boys are told in alternating voices, the voices of Grace and Ian. Both are forced to spend some time going into the empty school to clean out the lockers as punishment for various bad behaviors. Grace at this point is already hurt and reeling from the after-effects of her rape. She is shunned by everyone at school, labeled a slut. Her former best friends are actively tormenting her. Not even his family seems to believe what they say happened. Ian is the best friend and teammate of Zac, the boy who Grace claims raped her. He struggles to live up to his father's demands and expectations and to maintain his place in the rankings