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How to Be Bad

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When you've had enough of being good, sometimes you've got to try a little bad...

30% Friendship, 30% Road Trip, 20% Boys, 20% Secrets

Jesse, Vicks and Mel couldn't be more different. Jesse, a righteous Southern gal who's as thoughtful as she is uptight, is keeping a secret that she knows will change her life forever. Vicks is a wild-child: seemingly cool, calm and collected on the outside, but inside she's furious at herself for being so anxious about her neglectful boyfriend. And Mel is the new girl in town. She's already been dismissed as just another rich kid, but all she wants is to get over some of her fears and find some true friends. But for all their differences, the girls discover they've got one thing in common - they're desperate to escape. Desperate to get the heck out of Niceville and discover their true 'badass' selves! Even if it's just for the weekend... One 'borrowed' car later, it's time to hit the road and head for Miami. Hearts will be broken, friendships will be tested, and a ridiculously hot stranger could change the course of everything.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
E. Lockhart is the author of nine novels, including WE WERE LIARS, THE BOYFRIEND LIST, FLY ON THE WALL and THE DISREPUTABLE HISTORY OF FRANKIE LANDAU-BANKS, which was a Michael L. Printz Award Honor Book, a finalist for the National Book Award, and winner of a Cybils Award for Best Young Adult Novel. Visit her online at: emilylockhart.com or on Twitter: @elockhart Sarah Mlynowski has written novels for adults as well as the New York Times bestselling middle-grade series Whatever After. Her YA novels include the Magic in Manhattan series: BRAS AND BROOMSTICKS, FROGS AND FRENCH KISSES, SPELLS AND SLEEPING BAGS and PARTIES AND POTIONS; GIMME A CALL, TEN THINGS WE DID (AND PROBABLY SHOULDN'T HAVE) and DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT. Sarah's books have been translated into twenty-six languages and optioned to Hollywood. She now lives in New York City with her husband and two daughters. Visit Sarah at www.sarahm.com or on Twitter: @SarahMlynowski Lauren Myracle holds an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College. Her breakout success came with the publication of TTYL, the first-ever novel written entirely in instant messages. This was the first book in the New York Times bestsellling Internet Girls series which includes TTFN, L8R, G8R and YOLO. She is also the author of LET IT SNOW (co-written with John Green and Maureen Johnson), SHINE, BLISS, and THE INFINITE MOMENT OF US, among many other books for teens and young people. Visit Lauren at www.laurenmyracle.com or on Twitter: @LaurenMyracle

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from February 25, 2008
      Three deservedly popular YA authors take turns narrating this exuberant novel, which centers on a road trip. After working all summer in their small Florida town at the Waffle House (they call it the Awful Waffle), three girls strike out for the weekend, with Miami their intended destination. The three-way collaboration pushes the authors into directions they might not have chosen individually—Lockhart's (The
      Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
      ) narrator, Vicks, is less aloof than the author's usual protagonist, and more congenial; she's less elite (she wants to be a cook) but she's just as self-assured and intelligent. Mlynowski's narrator, Mel, the diffident middle child in an affluent Canadian family, faces the same insecurities as the main character in the Bras & Broomsticks
      books, but she approaches them in a reflective manner. Myracle (TTYL
      ) tries on heavy issues: Bible-thumping Jesse can't cope with her mom's recent diagnosis of cancer. Whip-smart dialogue and a fast-moving, picaresque plot that zooms from lump-in-the-throat moments to all-out giddiness will keep readers going, and it's a testimony to how real these girls seem that the final chapters are profoundly satisfying rather than tidy. Ages 14-up.

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