Dreams of Significant Girls
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781416985877 (1416985875)
Publish date: July 12th 2011
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Adventure,
Novels,
Cultural,
Realistic Fiction,
Historical Fiction,
Drama,
Contemporary,
School Stories,
Boarding School,
Young Adult Contemporary
I was just starting to get on board with this book when I had to quit because of the attempted murder of Midori. I'm sure this sounds like I'm exaggerating, but I'm not. The character grabs Midori's foot, drags her down to the deep part of the pool and even that won't get her expelled from this camp...
Dreams of Significant Girls manages to touch on all the "issues" of issue books - depression, divorce, sexual assault, slut-shaming, statutory rape, absent parents, suicide, abortion, homosexuality, revolution, war, genocide, you name it! - without actually saying much about any of those experiences...
I thought this book was a very fun summer read and it was quick. It had amazing character development and some great moments. The book follows three girls' journey through the teenage years as they work to find themselves. Each of the girls are completely different from one another but soon they bec...
Nearly unreadable. I didn't like any of the narrators, the period details didn't ring especially true, and it felt more like a grown person looking back fondly on an idealized, if hypersexualized, adolescent period. The writing is pedestrian at best. It's basically about three rich girls who go to b...
Meh....
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