Trinkets
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3.7 • 3 Ratings
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
The Shoplifters Anonymous meetings that sixteen-year-old Moe is forced to attend are usually punctuated by the snores of an old man and the whining of the world's unhappiest housewife. Until the day that Tabitha Foster and Elodie Shaw walk in. Tabitha has just about everything she wants: money, friends, popularity, a hot boyfriend who worships her...and clearly a yen for stealing. So does Elodie, who, despite her goodie-two-shoes attitude pretty much has "klepto" written across her forehead in indelible marker. But neither of them are anything compared to Moe, a bad girl with an even worse reputation.
Tabitha, Elodie, and Moe: a beauty queen, a wallflower, and a burnout-a more unlikely trio high school has rarely seen. And yet, when Tabitha challenges them to a steal-off, so begins a strange alliance linked by the thrill of stealing and the reasons that spawn it.
Hollywood screenwriter Kirsten Smith tells this story from multiple perspectives with humor and warmth as three very different girls who are supposed to be learning the steps to recovery end up learning the rules of friendship.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Eleventh graders Elodie, Tabitha, and Moe all attend Lake Oswego High, but burnout Moe and new girl Elodie are way below alpha girl Tabitha's notice. Soon, though, they have something in common: after being caught shoplifting, Elodie and Tabitha are remanded to the counseling program Moe's already in. Smith shifts among the three girls' distinctive viewpoints: Tabitha is becoming skeptical about her lacrosse-star boyfriend and clothing and looks-obsessed friends; tough girl Moe yearns for the neighbor boy who only likes her when no one's around; and Elodie writes in a free-verse narrative that's literary without being precious, a style Smith used in The Geography of Girlhood. The girls' unlikely friendship starts with a contest to see who can boost the best stuff and develops as they find that they share more than the understanding that, as Elodie says, "a stolen present/ means way more than one that's been bought/ because of what you had to go through to get it." The plot lines converge a bit too neatly, but it's a small flaw in this funny, smart, and perceptive book. Ages 14 up.
