GOOD GIRLS by Laura Ruby
    Category:  Contemporary
    Age Recommendation:  Grades 9+
    Release Date:  9/1/06
    Publisher:  HarperTempest
    Reviewed by:  Jennifer Wardrip, aka "The Genius"
    Rating:  5 Stars


    Audrey Porter is a good girl.  The kind that works hard to keep up her grades, spends weekends working in her
    dad's store, manning the cash register, and basically just being a good daughter and a good friend.  Things change,
    though, when she falls for Luke DeSalvio, a guy known around Willow Park High School as a player.  

    Audrey's best friends, Ash and Joelle, had warned her from the beginning not to lose her heart to Luke.  But unlike
    her dedication to schoolwork and good grades, there's something about being with Luke that turns her brain to mush
    and her normal level-headedness to idiotic levels.  After Audrey hears that Luke has been with another girl (as if all of
    his constant flirting wasn't bad enough), she decides to call off their friends-with-benefits, not-really-boyfriend-and-
    girlfriend relationship.  Unfortunately, she decides to do this after one last hurrah with Luke, one last make-out session
    at a party that puts her in a very compromising situation.  A situation that someone captures on their cell phone
    camera and proceeds to distribute among the student body.

    She could have ignored the millions of instant messages on her computer calling her a slut and a ho, she even could
    have ignored the leers and jeers of the guys in the halls at Willow Park.  What she can't ignore, though, is the fact that
    someone has sent the picture to her father's work email address.  Or that Mr. Swieback, the principal, found copies
    on the library computers.  Or that even Ms. Godwin, the drama teacher, seems to think Audrey is some type of sex
    maniac.

    Humiliation complete, Audrey must come to terms with her new social status, which has nothing to do with being a
    good girl. Along with Ash and Joelle, who have stood beside her, she forms a new, tenuous friendship with Pam and
    Cindy, two girls who had previously held the title as school sluts.  But as Audrey realizes that she may have been
    wrong about the girls, especially Pam, she also realizes that being a good girl doesn't mean always being perfect.

    I really enjoyed GOOD GIRLS.  This is a book with heart and emotion, with true-to-life characters who don't preach
    or moralize, but who work hard at being the best type of people they can be.  There are girls like Audrey, Ash,
    Joelle, Pam, and Cindy in every high school--just as there are boys like Luke and the insufferable Chilly.  This is
    definitely a book for your keeper shelf.
Good Girls
by Laura Ruby