Shaw, Tucker. The Girls. Amulet Books. April 2009. ISBN: 978-0-8109-8348-9. Gr 7-11.
-- School Library Journal, 3/18/2009
The Girls is a retelling of Clare Booth Luce’s play The Women, which opened in New York in 1936 with an all-female cast. The book cover did tempt me to pick it up, and I feel like the cover did reflect the content. I was disappointed with the book because it didn't reach the expectations the cover and the summary created for me.
The part of the book I thought was most compelling was when Peggy found out that her best friend's boyfriend was really cheating on her best friend. The Girls wasn't as good as I had hoped, and the characters were too nonrealistic. The book seems like it’s trying to portray the true friendship of two girls, but it didn't do that.—Patong L., age 15
This review is from a member of the Teens Know "Best" YA Galley Group of the St. Paul Public Library and the Metropolitan State University Library and Learning Center (MN), a part of YALSA's Young Adult Galley/Teen Top Ten Project, which uses 15 public libraries and school library media centers from across the country to provide feedback to publishers of young adult books.
