Bad Girls Club has been added to the Pacific Northwest Special Collection at the University of Washington Library and the Ted Hipple Special Collection at the University of South Florida.
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ABOUT JUDY:
Judy lives in the Pacific Northwest and she's the author of BAD GIRLS CLUB, Blooming Tree Press, and SAVE ME! A YOUNG WOMAN'S JOURNEY THROUGH SCHIZOPHRENIA TO HEATLH, Doubleday. Her books speak to anyone who has faced challenging obstacles and she is especially interested in helping people who have been parentified or traumatized.
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If you like a good story that's suspenseful and compelling, you'll probably like Bad Girls Club. Reviewers are comparing it to A Child Called It and readers are agreeing.
So, if you know an at-risk or abused teen (especially if they love A Child Called It) or a school counselor, librarian, or teacher who works with at-risk kids, think about pointing them to Bad Girls Club. Even adults who have had experience with abuse or trauma find the book useful and insightful.
Take a look around and come back often to visit. I add new things all the time. And thanks for visiting!
"This book is a must read for school counselors, school psychologists, school nurses and all those interested in providing education and intervention for youngsters trapped in similar family dynamics and unable to free themselves." Jan Tkaczyk
MA School Counselors Assoc.
Adjunct Professor, UMass. Boston
"For a book that is honest, intense, and vivid in its portrayal of mental illness and child abuse, look no further than the gritty, realistic novel Bad Girls Club by Judy Gregerson." Curled Up With a Good Kids Book
About the book:
Destiny doesn't tell her friends what goes on at home. Neither does her little sister. In fact, her little sister doesn't talk at all anymore.
Destiny has a secret. She’s been told not to tell anyone what happened to her, her little sister, and her mother at Crater Lake. Or that her mother is mentally ill and hits her little sister.
But the secret is killing her and every day she remembers the bad thing she did at Crater Lake. Her boyfriend, Joshua, and best friend, Chloe, don’t understand. When she pulls away from them, and refuses to leave the house, they don’t realize that she’s trying to fix the mistake she made. They only know that she’s slipping away.
But trying to hold her family together doesn’t work. Destiny feels a darkness in the house and when Mom gets out of the psychiatric hospital, it takes over. First it attacks her little sister, and then it comes for her.
Destiny has to choose whether to expose the lies and the darkness or tell the truth about what happened at Crater Lake.
Can the truth really set her free? Or will she remain what her mother has always called her--a bad girl?
2008 YALSA QUICK PICK for Reluctant Readers Nominee
Compared to A Child Called It by mental health experts, educators, and reviewers.
Read a chapter of BAD GIRLS CLUB here! (153.4KB)
