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School Library Journal
Reviewed on January 1, 2006
Gr 9-Up Three girls succumb to the charms of one sexy high school senior and emerge wiser for the experience in this energetic novel in verse. Josie is a self-assured freshman who values her girlfriends over boys until a hot jock focuses his attention on her and her simmering hormones break into a full boil. Confused by her behavior, yet unable to control her desire, she acts out every romantic cliché she has ever disdained, until the boy drops her and she experiences the chill of rejection. It is Judy Blume's "Forever" that sparks Josie's fire again, an...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on January 1, 2006
"Stupid / humiliated / foolish / stung / heartbroken / pissed off / and a little / bit / wiser." High school freshman Josie sums up how she feels after falling for an only-out-for-one-thing senior, and she isn't alone. The three (very different) teen girl narrators in this candid free-verse novel form a chorus of varied perspectives on how a "bad boy"—the same boy fo...Log In or Sign Up to Read More