When She Was Good

Author

Kathryn Reiss

2.5 stars

I bought this book from the Scholastic Book Fair when I was 9 and remember reading it and loving it as a kid... so there’s 20 years of nostalgia attached to this book. Unfortunately, it didn’t really age well for me. Rereading it at 29, I found there was a lot of dated references and...

Author	Joy Castro
ISBN	1559707879

"The personal account of a young girl who endured abuse and the disturbing effects of religious hypocrisy within one of the most enigmatic sects of Christian fundamentalism." "Joy Castro is adopted as a baby and raised by a devout Jehovah's Witness family. As a child, she is constantly told to always...

Author	Patricia Hermes
ISBN	0590551191

When your Dad's an undertaker,
your Mom's in heaven,
and your Grandma's got a screw loose...
it's good to have a friend who understands you.
Even if he is a boy.

Thomas J. is Vada's best friend. They live near enough to each other to bike ride over and play, or even just hang out....

Author	Han Nolan
ISBN	0152058842

Miracle McCloy comes from an unusual family: Her father, Dane is a prodigy who published his first book at age thirteen; her grandmother, Gigi, is clairvoyant; and her mother was dead when her "miracle" daughter was pulled from her womb. Having been raised according to a set of mystical rules and beliefs,...

Author	Audrée Wilhelmy
ISBN	2760933636

De son aïeul grand veneur, Féléor Barthélémy Rü n'a pas seulement reçu une immense fortune; il a également hérité du désir de tuer et d'un goût pour la chair crue. Ces plaisirs, il les développe au contact des femmes qu'il croise et qui deviennent, pour certaines, ses épouses et victimes....

Author	Mary Beth Lundgren
ISBN	0805067973

"From the computer files of Sara J. Reichert:
My life, from the last day of summer vacation,
to almost spring of my Junior year.
No matter what you might have heard,
this is the real story."

Love, Sara is the story of two teenage best friends, Sara and Dulcie. Sara, the narrator,...

Author	Willo Davis Roberts
ISBN	0689305710

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This book had a profound book on me during my childhood. As an abusive victim, it helped me not feel alone and gave me hope that one day things would change.

As it turns out, I had a chance to meet the author when I was in grade school and I still have the version of this book she signed...

Author	Camilla Gibb
ISBN	0786709669

By turns harrowing and hilarious, this adroitly narrated winner of the Toronto Book Award re-creates the world in the imagination of Thelma. It's a world in which she can escape some of her more painful childhood realities, like those games her father likes to make her play, where he's the boss and she...

Author

Simon Roy

The Shining, de Stanley Kubrick, cette histoire étrange située dans un hôtel où s’installent hors saison un écrivain, sa femme et leur garçon aux pouvoirs extrasensoriels, a impressionné une foule de spectateurs depuis sa sortie en 1980. C’est à l’âge de dix ans que Simon Roy a découvert...

Author

Simon Boulerice

Javotte, c’est l’histoire contemporaine d’une princesse aux grands pieds. Boulerice revisite le conte de Cendrillon avec un humour noir décapant, concentrant son regard sur Javotte, la demi-sœur cruelle de Cendrillon, avant que cette dernière n’arrive dans sa vie, alors qu’elle...

Author	Katie Arnoldi
ISBN	0312878915

A stunning and compelling portrait of two obsessed personalities and the perversely symbiotic relationship that draws them together.

Aurora Jeanine Johnson is an unwed mother from Savannah, Georgia, desperate to sculpt a new life--and a new body-- in California, where the quest for...

Author

Mary Hooper

It's a difficult time for Amy--her two best friends have abandoned her and she's feeling lonely and vulnerable. Then, she meets Zed in an internet chat room and their online relationship quickly develops. Amy is thrilled to consider him her boyfriend. But is Zed the person he claims to be? Against her...

Author	Monica J. O'Rourke
ISBN	1894815351

Zoey Masterson didn't know what pain was before, but she's learning fast. Kidnapped off the Manhattan streets and whisked away from the safe, normal world she once knew, she finds herself the victim of one reprehensible man's vision. Forced to witness the depravities of the seedy underworld where...

Author	Hope Donahue
ISBN	1904132596

Hope Donahue seemed to have it all: beauty, wealth, social status. She was an only child who grew up with the best private schools, debutante balls, and a home in Hancock Park, Los Angeles's old-money enclave. But beneath the family's façade of "keeping up appearances," Hope hid a host of ugly truths,...

Author	Ann M. Martin
ISBN	0590298372

Believe it or not, I actually read this Diary first. And this is like, the 3rd one is the series!!! lol, but that was because my sister had all these books hiden in her room somewhere, *rolls eyes* shes so odd. anyway, it actually made sence. Into the book, when Maggie plays "Hey, Down There" for her band,...

Author	Kristin Waterfield Duisberg
ISBN	0312300395

Brilliant, acerbic, funny, and relentless, Darien Gilbertson appears to have it all: a successful career, a husband who loves her absolutely, and all the material comforts of a New York life. But Darien is in trouble – on the run from her emotions, and from a past that resurrects itself in acts of self-mutilation...

Author	Vivian Schurfranz
ISBN	0590412078

I read Josie and Megan in one sitting, in an attempt to get through the Schurfranz and get back to the good Sunfires. I think they are the same book. Or maybe that was the other Schurfranz book. I'm a little punchy at this point in the Sunfire Re-Read, so bear with me.

Josie Gaits, 16, kind of short,...

Author	Barbara Gowdy
ISBN	1569471169

A fine example of seventies suburban grotesque, despite being set in the sixties and published in the eighties. Funny, stark, emotionally resonant, honest, sometimes surprising. Gowdy has a real grip on how kids/people do their best to normalize what isn't. Even if the kids feel like they're freaks...