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"I like that about myself." A BAD BOY CAN BE GOOD FOR A GIRL is the story told from the point of view of these three teens.
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"And I'm happy for a second, because I still know how to find the funny. Or maybe the one after that! "He's cute and all, but not what I'd call a real quick study! "I laugh out loud. Even if it's only for the sake of the next girl who comes along.
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And I'm not so sure it was a mistake, anyway. I doubt this is the only mistake I'm going to make. But unfortunately, something tells me this stuff is tricky. "Why is that?" Aviva: "I wouldn't want to go through this again. " 'WAIT!' " Nicolette: "Am I a whore because I like sex? Or because I did it too soon? Or too much? Nobody ever calls boys whores. It seems particularly fitting for this topic, because first love and heartbreak are exactly the kiĪ BAD BOY CAN BE GOOD FOR A GIRL by Tanya Lee Stone, Wendy Lamb Books, January 2006, ISBN: 2-0, Publisher recommendation: 14 years and up "the sound of them strong stalking talking about their prey like the way hammer meets nail pounding, they say pounding out the rhythms of attraction like a woman was a drum like a body was a weapon like there was something more they wanted than the journey like it was owed to them steel toed they walk and I'm wondering why this fear of men" -Ani Difranco, "The Slant" Josie: "In one more second it will be too late. Another nice thing about the verse form is that it takes us right inside the minds of Josie, Nicolette, and Aviva in a way that a narrative form might not. Here's an example: "How can a person, any person, even just a friend, turn off, snap- just like that?" I love the "just, like, that". I would stop and shake my head at the aptness of a phrase, or the clever way that the author uses verse to speed up, or slow down, or convey mood.
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I also like the way the characters in this book learn from the one in Judy Blume's Forever, and use the end pages of a copy of Forever to record a manual for other girls: "some little book where a girl could look up what to do what not to do and who not to do it with" I read this book quickly, to find out what would happen next, but the verse kept catching me up, and slowing me down. If readers can gain a little of that wisdom from this book, without having to experience everything that Josie, Nicolette, and Aviva experience, so much the better. The "bad boy" of the title is good for the girls in the story in part by making them wiser. That said, I do highly recommend it for high schoolers, especially girls. Although it's not a difficult read, I wouldn't recommend it for most middle schoolers, because it is very open concerning teen sex. This book is a very frank look at high school politics and relationships. I think that any adult reader of this book will find occasion to wince here and there, as certain incidents or feelings ring true. Their experiences with him vary, but have commonalities, too. One after another, each of these three girls, very different on the surface, falls for the same unnamed boy, a popular senior jock. Aviva is a senior, a "Criss-Crosser" who has friends in lots of cliques, but manages to maintain her own individuality. Nicolette is a junior, popular with the boys, in a certain sort of way, but the kind of girl who other girls tend to avoid. Josie is a freshman, smart and confident but (she assures us) not stuck up. A Bad Boy Can Be Good for a Girl is a verse novel told in the distinct voices of three high school girls. I thought of which of them I personally identified with the most. I wondered if Josie, Nicolette, and Aviva would end up becoming friends. I thought about my own high school experiences. I read the discussion questions on the handy bookmark that Tanya provided, and I spent time thinking about them. I read Bad Boy in one sitting, and didn't want it to end. I love the combination of a fast-paced, streamlined read with wonderful language selection. And I have to say that if these two books are at all representative, then I'm completely hooked. A Bad Boy Can Be Good for a Girl is only the second verse novel that I've read (after Hugging the Rock by Susan Taylor Brown).