title: Cleavage: Breakaway Fiction for Real Girls
author: Deb Loughead
description: Grade 8 UpAlternately edgy, charming, funny, and sweet, these 15 stories address issues confronting adolescents. Integral to each selection is the complicated relationship between the girls and their mothers. In the hilarious "Faceless on the Farm," a spunky girl writes emails to a fashion consultant at a teen magazine asking for advice in her efforts to convince her mother to allow her to wear makeup. Conversely, in "Wax World," Amy resists her mother's idea of beauty and refuses to get her legs waxed, preferring to leave them as they are. In "The Giant Regina," Georgia copes with her mother's newfound lesbianism, while in "My So Not Ballerina Boobs," large-breasted Meghan deals with the mortifying prospect of bra shopping with her embarrassing mother. The selections touch on the multiple meanings of the word "cleavage," and together form an aptly named collection of stories about body image and mothers and daughters coming together and growing apart. A fresh, honest, and entertaining anthology.<i>Ragan O'Malley, Saint Ann's School, Brooklyn, NY</i> <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  # THE TAKEN GIRLS
  
  
  ## G. D. Sanders
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  First published in Great Britain by HarperCollins _Publishers_ 2018
  
  
  Copyright © G. D. Sanders 2018
  
  
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