A Bad Boy Can Be Good for a Girl
By Tanya Lee Stone
By Tanya Lee Stone
By Tanya Lee Stone
By Tanya Lee Stone
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$8.99
Jun 12, 2007 | ISBN 9780553495096 | Young Adult
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Dec 18, 2007 | ISBN 9780307433053 | Young Adult
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Praise
“Three girls succumb to the charms of one sexy high school senior and emerge wiser for the experience in this energetic novel in verse. . . The free verse gives the stories a breathless, natural flow and changes tone with each narrator. The language is realistic and frank, and, while not graphic, it is filled with descriptions of the teens and their sexuality. This is not a book that will sit quietly on any shelf; it will be passed from girl to girl to girl.”–School Library Journal, Starred Review
“This amazing first novel is one of the most honest treatments of teenage sexuality to be found in YA fiction. . . . This will be much talked about, and every reader who has been swept away in a love affair will recognize its truth.”–Kliatt
“The kind of tell-it-like-it-is wisdom that comes from your best girlfriends. It’s irresistible.”–Libba Bray, New York Times bestselling author of A Great and Terrible Beauty and Rebel Angels
“Candid free-verse novel . . . electrically charged.”–The Horn Book Magazine
“Stone’s novel in verse, more poetic prose than poetry, packs a steamy, emotional wallop. . . . The lessons learned here, however, are important.”–Booklist
“It’s fantastic–hip, edgy, and addicting. Sometimes funny, sometimes heartbreaking, always real. Sure to be the new Forever.”–Cynthia Leitich Smith, award-winning author
“Every high-school age girl in the world needs to read this book, before they meet the proverbial bad boy.”–Teens Read Too!
“3 smart girls + 1 slick senior boy = 1 sharply observed novel about sex, sisterhood, and self-respect.”–Reading Rants!
A Bill’s Best Book chosen by ALAN–the Assembly on Literature for Adolescents of the National Council of Teachers of English
“The next Vagina Monologues, . . . for the teen crowd.”–Donna Freitas, Belief.net columnist and author of Becoming a Goddess of Inner Poise
“Stone’s intimate and honest work accurately depicts both the agony and ecstasy of teenage relationships from the inside out.”–VOYA, 4Q, 4P
Awards
ALA Quick Pick for Young Adult Reluctant Readers WINNER 2007
New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age WINNER 2007
Texas TAYSHAS High School Reading List WINNER 2008
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