The Girls of No Return
CUT meets HATCHET in this lacerating debut about girls, knives, and redemption.The Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness Area stretches across two million acres in northern Idaho. In its heart sits the Alice Marshall School, where fifty teenage girls come to escape their histories and...
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CUT meets HATCHET in this lacerating debut about girls, knives, and redemption.The Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness Area stretches across two million acres in northern Idaho. In its heart sits the Alice Marshall School, where fifty teenage girls come to escape their histories and themselves.Lida Wallace has tried to negate herself in every way possible. At Alice Marshall, she meets Elsa Boone, a fierce native Idahoan; Jules, who seems too healthy to belong at the school; and Gia Longchamps, whose glamour entrances the entire camp. As the girls prepare for a wilderness trek, Lida is both thrilled and terrified to be chosen as Gia's friend. But everyone has their secrets--their "Things" they try to protect; and when those come out, the knives do as well.THE GIRLS OF NO RETURN is a bold and powerful debut.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780545310260 (0545310261)
ASIN: 545310261
Publish date: February 1st 2012
Publisher: Arthur A. Levine Books
Pages no: 348
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Adventure,
Teen,
Survival,
Realistic Fiction,
Coming Of Age,
Contemporary,
Glbt,
High School,
Outdoors,
Wilderness,
School Stories,
Boarding School
I would say this is a three-star book that got four stars because I couldn't put it down. I read it every night until my eyes were closed and I had to open them to turn out the light. I liked that Saldin took a low-stakes plot (not a murder or a war, just some teenagers at camp) and made it into suc...
Small review:I really really loved this book. I was at first worried how it might turn out, but in the end I loved it.The book switches between Now (after camp) and the past (at the camp and a small part before that), we slowly find out what happened at that camp that was so traumatising and what wa...
I borrowed this book from the library after reading about it on a few blogs. Here is the summary from Kobo: The Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness Area stretches across two million acres in northern Idaho. In its heart sits the Alice Marshall School, where fifty teenage girls come to esca...
Girls. If you know anything about them, you know they can be cruel. Now, imagine throwing a bunch of troubled girls together in a remote area with some adults and trying to get these females to work out their inner issues without causing future problems. This is the premise of the book as the gir...
The Girls of No Return is a finely crafted tale of suspense, a heartbreaking coming-of-age story, a harrowing wilderness adventure. If I were pitching it to Hollywood, I'd call it Girl, Interrupted in the woods.For complete review, please go to: http://jenryland.blogspot.com/2012/02/standalone-sat...
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