Story of a Girl

Reader reviewed by Kayleah.

The Story of A Girl. My Review: 4 stars out of 5
This story is truly Amazing! Deanna has to go through so many rough challenges and all because of a boy. Her dad found her in the back of a truck with her older brothers best friend. She gets labeled the School Slut. All she wants is to relive her life and not be labeled. She want to be something. She wants to outlive her role as the School Slut because all the things people say. She is always getting comments from people while walking down the hall. It is a very inspiring story and all should read it. It lets everyone know how we all label each other.

Reader reviewed by alecia

Alecia Alleyne

Story of a Girl:

By Sara Zarr

            I would definitely recommend this book to anyone boy or girl. I liked this book because it depicts the true aspects in the life of an average teenage girl. It does not sugar coat tough situations and beautifully illustrates the hard ships of a normal life. The main character in this book is Deanna Lambert who is a distraught teenager who longs to feel wanted and belonging to someone else. When she was thirteen years old her father caught her in the back of Tommys (age 17) Buick. Before that night she was daddys little girl and they had a great father daughter bond, he cherished her and she cherished him, they understood each other. After that he could not even look her in the eye, he was ashamed of her and in a way disowned her. She was known as the eighth grade skank and was constantly harassed and talked about in school. Her father had lost his job and was angered that after working at the company for 16 years he had been layed off. Her older brother Darren had gotten his girlfriend Stacy pregnant and they had April, a beautiful little girl. Now they are living in Darrens parents basement and are miserable. Deanna has dreams of saving allot of money up and she, Darren, Stacy and April will escape and live together. Deannas father views both of his children as a disappointment and hates Stacy because of her decision to keep the baby. Deannas mom is always trying to rekindle the love her family once shared, she is and optimist. Deanna only has two friends Jason and Lee. Her friendships will be tested. Now that she is working at the same place as Tommy, will she once again fall a victim to his innocent charm or will she be able to respect herself? Will Lee forgive her and be able to hang on to their friendship? Will her and her fathers relationship ever be able to return to how it was? Will Stacy ever return home? Will Darren, Stacy, April and possibly Deanna ever move out? To find the answers to all of these questions you should read this depictive and realistic book that leaves no stone unturned.

Reader reviewed by Randi

Being labeled the "school slut" is not really much fun. After Deanna slept with a junior when she was only in the eight grade (thirteen years old) and happend to b caught in the back of his truck by her father, she earned this title the second the story was retold. Not only did she have to battle starting high school as a whore, but she battled being head over heels for her best friend who was dating her other best friend. Not to mention struggling with the fact that her father now can't even tell her that he loves her let alone look at her, and her mothers attempt to make the family work with them and her both Derren along with his pregnant girlfriend Stacy. Then to make matters worse she gets a job where that junior who told the whole school about what happend giving her her title. Deanna's struggles with family, friends, relationships, and social idenity are relatable and a real page turner. I suggest this book to anyone who is struggling throught their teenage years.

Reader reviewed by Kristin

I hate it when people give books 4 out of 5, but I had to for Story of a Girl.

I liked it, but I felt depressed during the whole book and disappointed at the end. Plus, I really wanted to jump into the book and yell at her. Maybe due to her actions or how there were some parts reminiscent of her in me.

SPOILERRRRR.
I liked and did not like how there was no miraculous boyfriend for her at the end of the book. I liked that fact because that sets it apart from all the other YA books with a romantic subplot. On the other hand, I did not like it because well, there was no new guy.

Another thing that kept annoying me was how the main character (forgot her name again...) would not talk to her friends about her feelings and what she was gong through half the time! Plus, she got between her two best friends that were dating and therefore alienating herself from both of them. I really wanted to shake some sense into her then.
Although I really did not like some parts of the book, I think Sara wrote a great book on trying to move on from our mistakes that we keep making again and again.