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Good Girls
Laura Ruby
Audrey is an honor student, better yet, as Mr. Zwieback puts it, “a model student.” She makes the grades, is in the top5 rank at her school and is college bound. Everyone knows Audrey as the genius, the good girl. But all that changes after the picture. At a Halloween party, a picture of Audrey, in an uncomfortable position, is taken without her notice. By the next day, everyone at school has seen, taken note of, and passed it on, it’s like a snowball effect. That is, everyone but Audrey. Why is she getting so much attention from everyone? Who would do that to her? Why? A lot of questions go unanswered when Audrey sees herself captured in film. Could that really be her? Unfortunately it is, and it gets worst, her dad is given a copy of the picture. Could a picture really change someone’s life that much, it did Aubrey’s’.
Her grades get better. Since she’s spending less time at the parties, she’s studying more that ever. She even becomes valedictorian and gives an awesome speech at graduation. But none of this comes easy. Audrey is shunned at school and keeps to herself. She’s embarrassed and ashamed. The teachers are disappointed in her. Even her best friend, Ashley, thinks she’s a “slut.” With that she stomps off. If she is a slut, why shouldn’t she sit with the sluts, Pam Markovitz and Cindy Terlizzi. When she first sits with them, she does it out of anger and is ready to sit with her real friends again the next day but Ashley still gives her the cold shoulder. Soon enough, Ashley comes around, now it’s a group, Pam, Ashley, Cindy, Joelle and Audrey. A sporadic friendship is fashioned.
But what about Luke? Why is Audrey the only one getting called names? Why does he get to walk away without so much as a scratch? He was just as much in the picture as Audrey was. Since he didn’t take the picture, who did? When the truth comes out, will it ruin a friendship?
This was a pretty okay book about friendship, misunderstandings, and rumors. It was what I expected it to be; judging from the title, good girl gone bad. But it also wasn’t because she didn’t exactly go buck wild and the changes weren’t exactly her choice. I would recommend this book to the older readers because of how detailed/graphic it gets and also to fans of Anatomy of a Boyfriend by Daria Snadowsky, it sort of runs on the same scale.
Her grades get better. Since she’s spending less time at the parties, she’s studying more that ever. She even becomes valedictorian and gives an awesome speech at graduation. But none of this comes easy. Audrey is shunned at school and keeps to herself. She’s embarrassed and ashamed. The teachers are disappointed in her. Even her best friend, Ashley, thinks she’s a “slut.” With that she stomps off. If she is a slut, why shouldn’t she sit with the sluts, Pam Markovitz and Cindy Terlizzi. When she first sits with them, she does it out of anger and is ready to sit with her real friends again the next day but Ashley still gives her the cold shoulder. Soon enough, Ashley comes around, now it’s a group, Pam, Ashley, Cindy, Joelle and Audrey. A sporadic friendship is fashioned.
But what about Luke? Why is Audrey the only one getting called names? Why does he get to walk away without so much as a scratch? He was just as much in the picture as Audrey was. Since he didn’t take the picture, who did? When the truth comes out, will it ruin a friendship?
This was a pretty okay book about friendship, misunderstandings, and rumors. It was what I expected it to be; judging from the title, good girl gone bad. But it also wasn’t because she didn’t exactly go buck wild and the changes weren’t exactly her choice. I would recommend this book to the older readers because of how detailed/graphic it gets and also to fans of Anatomy of a Boyfriend by Daria Snadowsky, it sort of runs on the same scale.
