title: A Bad Boy Can Be Good for a Girl
author:  Tanya Lee Stone 
description: Starred Review. Grade 9 UpThree girls succumb to the charms of one sexy high school senior and emerge wiser for the experience in this energetic novel in verse. Josie is a self-assured freshman who values her girlfriends over boys until a hot jock focuses his attention on her and her simmering hormones break into a full boil. Confused by her behavior, yet unable to control her desire, she acts out every romantic clich she has ever disdained, until the boy drops her and she experiences the chill of rejection. It is Judy Blume's <i>Forever</i> that sparks Josie's fire again, and finding a few blank pages at the back of the library's copy, she sends a warning to the girls of her school. Next readers meet Nicolette, a junior who sees her sexuality as power. A loner, she's caught by surprise at her own reaction when this popular boy takes notice of her. Suddenly she thinks she sees the difference between sex and love, and then, just as suddenly, he's gone. Finally, Aviva, a pretty, smart, artsy, and funny senior, is stunned when the jock seems to want her. She gives up her virginity, only to be disappointed in both the sex and the boy. Furious, Aviva heads to the library to check out <i>Forever</i>, now crammed with the words of girls who suffered the same fate at the hands of the same boy. The free verse gives the stories a breathless, natural flow and changes tone with each narrator. The language is realistic and frank, and, while not graphic, it is filled with descriptions of the teens and their sexuality. This is not a book that will sit quietly on any shelf; it will be passed from girl to girl to girl.<i>Susan Oliver, Tampa-Hillsborough Public Library System, FL</i> <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  Contents
  Claire’s Bad Boy
  Prologue
  Chapter One – Claire
  Chapter Two – Kallen
  Chapter Three – Claire
  Chapter Four – Kallen
  Chapter Five – Claire
  Chapter Six – Kallen
  Chapter Seven – Claire
  Chapter Eight – Kallen
  Chapter Nine – Claire
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
  
   
   
  
  Claire’s Bad Boy
  Date Monsters for Bad Boys
  Book 1
  By: Lisa Daniels
   
   
   
   
   
  
  Prologue
  Kallen’s family didn’t want him to marry. At least, not Suzie Whitefoot, anyway. She came
  from low stock, a poor clan with no real value to their name, but he didn’t care. He’d give up
  