Girls on the Verge by Sharon Biggs Waller

This title offers realistic viewpoints on teenage pregnancy, along with what it is like to have the right to choose, wanting that right, and living knowing that you will be judged for having exercised it. This title offers realistic viewpoints on teenage pregnancy, along with what it is like to have the right to choose, wanting that right, and living knowing that you will be judged for having exercised it.' - School Library Journal, Starred Review But ultimately, the girls will realize that friends are the real heroes in every story. Over the course of more than a thousand miles, friendships will be tested and dreams will be challenged. Her upcoming novel is a young adult contemporary called Girls on the Verge (Holt, April 2019). And in a last minute change of heart, Bea decides to come with. Sharon Biggs Waller is the recipient of the Friends of American Writers award and the author of A Mad, Wicked Folly (Viking) and The Forbidden Orchid (Viking), both of which have garnered multiple starred reviews and awards. Happily, Annabelle agrees to drive her wherever she needs to go. At her most vulnerable, Camille reaches out to Annabelle Ponsonby, a girl she only barely knows from the theater.

And her best friend Bea doesn't agree with the decision Camille has made.Ĭamille is forced to try to solve her problem alone.and the system is very much working against her. But on the very night she learns she got into the program, she also finds out she's pregnant. Sharon Biggs Waller brings to life a narrative that has to continue to fight for its right to be told, and honored.Ĭamille couldn't be having a better summer-she kills it as Ophelia in her community theater's production of Hamlet, catches the eye of the cutest boy in the play, and nabs a spot in a prestigious theater program.

Girls on the Verge is an incredibly timely novel about a woman's right to choose. 'Absolutely essential, as is the underlying message that girls take care of each other when no one else will.' -Booklist, Starred ReviewĪ 2020 YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults Selection

Girls on the Verge by Sharon Biggs Waller