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| Book #121 of 2010 |
| Title: Some Girls Are |
| Author: Courtney Summers |
| Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin |
| Pub Date: January 5, 2010 |
| Grade: A- |
| Comments: Regina was best friends with the most popular and powerful girl in school – until Anna’s boyfriend tries to rape her at a party. Regina tells Kara the truth about what happens, and Kara uses that information to trick Anna into believing Regina slept with her boyfriend. Now Regina is ostracized by all of her friends and dumped by her boyfriend. It might not be so bad if they’d just leave her alone, but their series of pranks escalates into something quite awful and Regina doesn’t want to back down. At lunch she sits with Michael – a loner who had been the victim of her groups’ bullying in the past, and he seems to be nice – even though its clear he’s still harboring some resentment toward her.
This is an ugly examination of bullying and mean girl cliques in high schools. This seems to be an extreme case, though I have no doubt things like this happen in high school. The depths that these girls are willing to go to be popular is really sickening. I thought Summers did a great job of making Regina a sympathetic character while not excusing her for her terrible actions in the past. This is definitely worth reading. |
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