ABOUT THIS BOOK

She's left her good Catholic girl ways behind . . . mostly. It is 1967, the Summer of Love, and Mary Margaret Hallinan has that itchy, squirmy feeling that there must be something more out there for her. Her new best friend, the glamorous Jane, says that boys are the ticket to a spectacular future. Her ex-best friend Elizabeth is sure she's going to hell. "Say yes!" commands Jane, and Mary Margaret has tried to follow her c'mon-it'll-be-fabulous friend into the psychedelic swirl. But can she fit any of her old self to this new life she's trying on?

This is it, this is gonna be the summer. Mary Margaret Hallinan, former good Catholic girl, is clutching her ticket.

Friendship, faith, family, feminism, and1960s counterculture all contribute to the heartfelt, thoughtful pages of Bad Tickets.


REVIEWS

Starred review, Booklist, January 2007:
"With insight and humor, O'Dell gives the good-girl--bad-girl story new depth. Everything is done well."


ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Kathleen O'Dell and her husband live with their sons in Glendale, California.

Kathleen O'Dell was named a Publisher Weekly Flying Start author for Agnes Parker . . . Girl in Progress, about which VOYA proclaimed, "O'Dell creates some of the liveliest characters in recent young adult fiction."


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