Story of a Girl (2007) (Little Brown)Sara Zarr
Grade: C
Genre: young adult
Source: own
TBR RBC 2015: A prize-winning novel
After being found by her father in
the back of Tommy Webber’s Buick aged 13, Deanna Lambert became that girl overnight. Never mind the fact
that Tommy was 17 and her brother’s supposed friend. Three years later and Deanna
is still known as the ‘school slut’, her father has barely spoken to her since that
night and tensions in their house might explode any minute. Deanna wants
nothing but a life where one mistake when she was 13 doesn’t precede her. Through
confronting the perceptions of the people around her, Deanna begins to realise
that starting afresh begins within …
