Josie, Nicolette, and Aviva are three very different girls who all date the same bad boy with an irresistible knack for getting into their blood and under their skin. Will the choices they make and the paths they take lead them where they want to go?
A Bad Boy Can Be Good For A Girl
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Published by Random House/Wendy Lamb Books
2006
Ages 14 and up
PRAISE
“one of the most honest treatments of teenage sexuality to be found in YA fiction.”
Kliatt
Starred Review
“Vagina Monologues…for the teen crowd.”
Donna Freitas
The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano
“brave and beautiful…honest and nonjudgmental”
Megan McCafferty
New York Times best-selling author
“…crawl-under-the-skin true filled with humor, hope, a little heartbreak, and the kind of tell-it-like-it-is wisdom that comes from your best girlfriends. It’s irresistible.”
Libba Bray
NYT best-selling author of A Great and Terrible Beauty and Rebel Angels
“poetic, funny, and amazingly true…will be dog-eared and stuffed in pockets and read long after bedtime.”
E. Lockhart
NYT best-selling author of We Were Liars, Genuine Fraud
“The free verse gives the stories a breathless, natural flow and changes tone with each narrator….This is not a book that will sit quietly on any shelf; it will be passed from girl to girl to girl.”
School Library Journal
Starred
“It’s fantastic–hip, edgy, and addicting. Sometimes funny, sometimes heartbreaking, always real. Sure to be the new Forever.”
Cynthia Leitich Smith
Award-Winning Author
“Stone’s novel in verse, more poetic prose than poetry, packs a steamy, emotional wallop”
Booklist
“The three (very different) teen girl narrators in this candid free-verse novel form a chorus of varied perspectives on how a ‘bad boy’-the same boy for all three-causes them to lose control before they even realize what’s happening.”
Horn Book
AWARDS
Top 100 Banned Books of the Decade (2010-2020)
ALA Quick Picks for Reluctant Readers
School Library Journal Book of the Month
New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age
A BILL’S BEST BOOK (Assembly on Literature for Adolescents, NCTE)
Texas Tayshas State Reading List
Maryland Great Books for Teens 2006
Kentucky Bluegrass Award Master List
ALA’s BBYA and ALA’s Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults