** spoiler alert ** 
 I like that this book addressed some really controversial topics, but I did not like the way things ended with the sexual abuse situation. I can absolutely understand that the faculty adviser would have had concerns about the appropriateness of mentioning that situation in the paper the way it was done, but for very different reasons than the ones they stated--that it shouldn't have been published yet because Amy could have been making it up. Alice saw the teacher leave the room, then went in because she heard crying--in a deserted classroom. She went into the room and saw the wet spot on Amy's skirt. People don't pretend to cry when no one is around to see it; if Amy had been making it up, there would have been an audience. Knowing that that was the situation, I feel like anyone who still thought she was lying has some serious issues.