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What Girls Are Made of
Contributor(s): Arnold, Elana K. (Author)
ISBN: 0823445674     ISBN-13: 9780823445677
Publisher: Holiday House
OUR PRICE:   $8.99  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: January 2020
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Temporarily out of stock - Will ship within 2 to 5 weeks
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Young Adult Fiction | Girls & Women
- Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes - Dating & Sex
- Young Adult Fiction | Romance - Contemporary
Dewey: FIC
Lexile Measure: 900
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.4" W x 8.2" (0.39 lbs) 208 pages
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 501100
Reading Level: 5.8   Interest Level: Upper Grades   Point Value: 8.0
 
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Publisher Description:
Sixteen-year-old Nina isn't made of sugar and spice and everything nice. She is flesh and blood and desire, but she longs to know real love. Unconditional love. The kind her mother told her doesn't exist.

National Book Award Finalist

Reeling from a shameful breakup with a boy she unabashedly worshipped, Nina drifts between school and her days volunteering at a dog shelter. But she's looking for something more. A way to fix her mistakes. Unsure of how to move on, Nina peels back the moments that have shaped her and given her a view of girlhood distorted by violence and sacrifice. One that led her to do something unspeakable to a fellow student.

As Nina grapples with regret, strange memories of a trip to Italy with her mother start to surface. Layer by layer, Elana K. Arnold reveals their painful effect, and questions what love really means.

Raw, emotional writing and a frank portrayal of the world teen girls live in set this award-winning book apart as a stunning chronicle of self-acceptance.