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    Good Girls

    By Laura Ruby

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    A Forever for the 21st Century.

    Audrey is a good girl: a good student, daughter and friend. She's also the last person anyone expects to be with Luke DeSalvio, the biggest player at school. On the night she dumps him, someone takes her picture doing something good girls just don't do…

    The next Monday, messages begin popping up on people's phones and email inboxes. Soon everyone knows, including her teachers, her mum and her dad… Now she must discover strength she never knew he had, find friends where she didn't think she would, and learn that life goes on – no matter how different it is to how you think it's going to be.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins UK
    Release dateOct 15, 2009
    ISBN9780007349920
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    Good Girls
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    Laura Ruby

    Laura Ruby is the Michael L. Printz Award–winning author of many books for adults, teens, and children, including Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All and Bone Gap, both National Book Award finalists; the ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults selection York: The Shadow Cipher and its sequels; the Edgar Award nominee Lily’s Ghosts; and the Book Sense Pick Good Girls. She is on the faculty of Hamline University’s MFA in writing for children and young adults program and lives in the Chicago area. You can visit her online at lauraruby.com.

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    • 3/5
      I heard this book was wonderful, but I thought it was pretty ordinary. The book certainly made you wonder what you would do if everyone in the school (even teachers… and even your parents) saw a picture of you going down on some guy. I did like that it went through exactly what it was like going to the gynecologist for the first time… and it did a good job describing how nervous you are the first time you have sex. Otherwise I just feel like I didn't get too much out of it. Why did they go to the prom in wedding dresses? I couldn't tell you. One strange thing is that usually books like this are about girls who aren't TOO popular… maybe even kind of weird or outcasts, but this book's characters seemed to be the most popular girls in school although they never specifically said anything or acknowledged it. It was kind of strange. Oh, and the main girl had sex with this guy and they had never really even had a conversation before… but of course it was LOVE.
    • 4/5
      A quick read about an embarrassing situation. When pictures of Audrey in a compromising situation are emailed out the whole community, Audrey suffers a shattered reputation, but starts to see things in a new light.
    • 4/5
      I'm going to recommend this book to many of our high school girls. I thought it was a good read...a cautionary tale. As an adult I think the sex scenes are too detailed; but many high school students will identify with Audrey. Did I like this book? Well, no--it made me uncomfortable--but I think it has an important message.
    • 5/5
      GOOD GIRLS is a gem of a good read. Super-smart Audrey does something completely out of character for her before school starts: she hooks up with Luke, the well-liked, athletic playboy. Party after party, they hook up, yet hardly ever speak in school. Audrey feels more for Luke than she’s felt for any other boy, but as she watches Luke talk to other girls, she can’t help but draw back from a possible romance between the two of them.Then someone takes a picture of Audrey doing something with Luke, and the picture is passed around to everyone. Even Audrey’s teachers and parents see it. Audrey goes from having a fairly decent reputation to being labeled as a slut. The consequences of the photo are far-reaching: Luke isn’t talking to her and her parents don’t know how to act around her.However, some of what happens in the picture’s aftermath surprises Audrey. She befriends several girls she had always considered as slutty before, and she learns that she does have the ability to be strong while people snicker behind her back.GOOD GIRLS is snidely hilarious and a surprisingly feel-good read. It’s raw and explicit; I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone not in high school yet. However, Audrey is a great, strong protagonist with a wonderful voice. Not everyone has been in Audrey’s particular situation, but I’m sure that everyone knows how it feels to be hurt, and then to rise above it.
    • 4/5
      I know the little description on the back of the book doesn't describe much. So this is my own little attempt for a summary. Basically.. it's about a girl, Audrey, who's been hooking up with a boy. Unfortunately, one night, she was caught in a compromising position which is captured by someone's camera phone. Pretty soon everyone received this photo, in her school and even reaching her own parents. There. I didn't give away much. This story was a lot better than I expected it to be. It's about peer pressure. It's about misunderstandings. It's about loyalty with friends. It's about prejudging people. All the things in high school that make it that much worse. Although I doubt that most girls would actually get caught doing that.. this book connects with girls on some level. Definitely recommend to all girls -- good and bad -- out there.
    • 4/5
      I read the book good girls by laura ruby. I chose to read this book because the cover looked intersting and the back summary was very intersting. after reading this book i learn a lot about the book and the people on it. the characters are very realistic in there own way. they had diffrent personalitys that made them all good friends in the end even through there hardships there friendship comes through.In my story there asre many hardships. the frist one is someone takes a embarsing photo of the main charatcer audrey. then when her friend ash finds out they get into a big fight and become enemys. Audrey gose over to sit woth her new freinds one day and Ash comes over and they become friends again but then at prom pam the girl who befriended audrey...admits that she took the picture and was very sorry. Audrey forgives pam and they are all friends forever until graduation day.so as you may or may not see friendship is somthing that nothing can replace. its the best thing to forgive and forget as these girls learned you have friends all the way to the end.this book was a very good book and it did meet my expectaion. it was a quick read i read the whloe book in 4 days. i really liked it and i look forward to more books by laura ruby!!
    • 4/5
      I... don't really know what to say.It's a really nice book and it kind of overwhelmed me at first when I realized what this was all about.This book is talking about delicate issues about sex, and well, high school life, friendships and teens today. I was once a teen, and I think I can relate with Audrey. We were once young, we do things we regret doing, things that embarrass us. It's just that reading this like this is... a bit new to me. Laura Ruby's writing style is nothing really special but she has a way of just delivering and saying everything using simple words.