Those Girls
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Publisher Description
A drama-filled young adult novel where dark secrets lie beneath the glittering surface of Stagmount School for Girls . . .
“Next time me and my LA friends are looking for a wild time in London, we’ll definitely phone up THOSE GIRLS!”—Zoey Dean, author of the New York Times bestselling series The A-List
Those girls are Jinx Slater and Liberty Latiffe, and their trendsetting, über affluent entourage. They run wild at the exclusive Stagmount School, swap their Stella McCartney blouses like Jelly Babies and stop at nothing in their absolute pursuit of fun.
Then snobby new girl Stella Fox shows up and naïve Liberty falls under her spell. Jinx knows the new girl can’t be trusted and she’s determined to win back her best friend, even if it means waging war on the self-absorbed and utterly devious Stella. But when Jinx delves into Stella’s past, she discovers there’s a lot more than schoolgirl jealousy on the line. . . . This time, Jinx could lose Liberty forever.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Wealthy, naughty and lively best friends Jinx and Liberty are enjoying the lower sixth form at an exclusive British boarding school, skipping down to the pier for drinks and incensing their sadistic former housemistress with silly pranks. But when manipulative new girl Stella muscles in on Liberty, Jinx feels sure Stella has a dark side and resolves to uncover it. This book's characters are meant to be over the top (e.g., heavy-drinking housemistress Patricia Gunn enjoys keeping a meticulous punishments book, "a record of every punishment she'd ever dished out and to whom"), but Lawrence's jokes can border on bad taste or bias (hotheaded, irrational Arabs; fat, ugly lesbians). Stereotypes also arise in a plot line involving the lone Asian character, a math whiz whom Jinx never realizes is actually two girls (surnamed, tellingly, Ho and Mo). Readers may also be put off by the often heartless protagonists: in one scene, a disliked teacher trips, knocking herself unconscious "with a delicious cracking thud.... None of them moved a muscle to help her, of course. They laughed and pointed and exclaimed until it became apparent she was not moving." The nasty edge here may discourage an audience from following the cast to their next episode. Ages 14-up.
