Bad

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Summary: Jessica's review for Bad.
Review: The book Bad is an excellent book in my opinion. From the moment that I started to read it I couldn't put it down.
Dallas is a normal teenage girl in certain ways, she likes to hang out with her friends Pam, Sonny who is Pam's boyfriend and her own boyfriend Ray. Dallas lives with her father, her mother passed away when she was four years old from an overdose.
Her father doesn't approve of her hanging out with Ray he says that he's a bad influence on his daughter.
One night Dallas and her father get into an argument because she wants to go hang out with her friends and her father says no, well she doesn't listen and goes out anyways which is a mistake. She meets up with them at a local cafe and they are trying to figure out what type of skating the want to do. Skating is their when they all get together and commit crimes, Dallas and her crew once stole an old lady's purse while she was enjoying a walk through the park. Ray suggests that they all should go to Typhoon which is a club. The only problem with that is they aren't the legal age to get in and don't have the right "hot" clothes. Pam brings out of her purse the hand gun that she stole from her father a few months ago, and she suggests that they choose someone to go rob a convient store called Jiffy-Spot. Dallas is the lucky one that gets chosen.
They pull into the parking lot and pam hands her the gun. Walking into the store very nervously she pulls out the gun and doesn't know what to do next. The store clerk is standing behind the counter looking at her, they are both very shocked. The next thing Dallas knows she is being tackled by the night watchman from the building next door. As she is being escorted to the patrol car she doesn't know what to think except that her friend's left her and where she is going to go.
The next morning Dallas is taken to a detention center where she is going to be placed for a while. She is roomed with a girl named Daliha who is racist. Things aren't going to be good is what Dallas says to herself...
Jean Ferris used excellent imagery in this book. It felt like I was actually there throughout the entire book.

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Summary: Bad, by Jean Ferris Review written by Andrew Overbaugh,
Review: The book that I am reviewing is called,Bad, by Jean Ferris.
This book is about a teenage girl named Dallas. Dallas is the main character of the book. Her mother died when she was little, therefore, she lives with her father. She is a very independent girl and wants to do things her own way. She has a lot of disagreements with her father, so she started hanging around a group of bad kids.
Her father seems to really resent the fact that her mother was a fun loving and dare taking person. She was killed on one of her crazy adventures. Dallas's dad was always telling her, "you're turning out just like your mother." Dallas always resented this because she couldn't see anything wrong with having fun and she really admired her mother for being that way.
Dallas makes a lot of bad decisions in her life. She made one really bad choice,this one got her sent away to a group home for six months. At this home she met a lot of different types of girls. She became very good friends with a lot of them, especially her roommate. Her roommate's name is Shatasia. Shatasia had a baby girl that kept her motivated from doing bad again. Shatasia left the home before Dallas did. Dallas really missed her and tried to keep in touch with her.
This is basically a story about a girl who has a lot of problems. All throughout the book she has to make decisions that could affect her for the rest of her life. The author described the setting and the characters very well. She made you feel as if you knew what the characters were feeling. So, because of the authors descriptive writing, I enjoyed this book.
Will Dallas ever straighten out her life and make the right decisions? Read the book to find out. I think you will enjoy it.

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Summary: From a different perspective...
Review: This book is about a 16 year old criminal who goes to live in a reform center for juvinille dellinquints. It really puts a spin on life. I've never read a book from the bad girl's point of view, but this one is different. I really enjoyed it and I recommend it to all. WARNING: It may be a bit to depressing for some, so if your a "Happy Book ONLY" kinda person, this aint for you.

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Summary: This is a provocative story about young delinquent girls.
Review: This is a very well written provocative story about several young girls in a correctional facility. It is primarily Dallas' story. Ferris tells us what it's like in the Girls Rehabilitation Facility while Dallas spends 6 months there for attempting to commit armed robbery. Only fifteen years old, Dallas, abandoned by her friends, boyfiriend, and her father, through her experiences in the GRC realizes that her decisions brought her to where she is, and no one else is to blame -- maybe. Also, she learns from her mates and her counselors that living life "straight" is extremely hard, and she has very little hope of changing herself or her behavior when she returns to her former situation. She's not sure she wants to change. Ferris does not gloss over violent situations. She tells it the way she apparently heard it when she was doing her research, talking with teenage girls in a detention center during the summer of 1993. Particularly poignant is the experience of one of the girls who goes home for the week-end only to be beaten up by one of her family members because she won't submit to his sexual advances. Instead, eager to try and change her behavior, she fights him off and walks a long way back to the GRC-- the only safe place she knows. We are left with a glimmer of hope that some of these girls will turn their lives around, knowing that if they do, it will take extraordinary courage, much help, more than average incentive and lots of luck. The girls come to life on the pages and won't be quickly forgotten.

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Summary: BIG STARS
Review: when you first take a look at this book you think "oh no, another juvie deliquent book" but this is not that kind of book. It is interesting and it is from the inside of juvie. it is a VERY good book.