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Girl to the Core Stacey Goldblatt Hardcover | Delacorte Books for Young Readers | 978-0-385-73609-1 | July 2009 | $16.99 | Ages 12 Up Hardcover Library Binding | Delacorte Books for Young Readers | 978-0-385-90587-9 | July 2009 | $19.99 | Ages 12 Up

Fifteen-year-old Molly O’Keefe should not be having so much fun with a bunch of 9-year-old Girl Corps members. But she is. In fact, thanks to her younger neighbor Claire’s invitation, it’s the only group Molly feels comfortable with right now. She can’t trust her boyfriend, rather ex, Trevor, after catching him kissing his old girlfriend. She tries to hang with her best friend who wants her to meet new guys. But after a disastrous night in a 21 club, Molly needs a break from the domineering Vanessa. While her Irish father and his clan at the family pub, The Banshee, mean well, all of their advice from the old country doesn’t make up for the talk she’d like to have with her mother who’s been dead since Molly was four. The Girl Corps – not to be mistaken for anything like the Girl Scouts – seems the perfect fit right now. So what if she’s hiking 16 miles in flip flops and singing camp songs? When Molly clashes with the Corps leader though, it seems she might have to dig deeper into her core to see where she fits.

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Prepared by Julie Fales, Library-Media Specialist, Shawnee Mission South High School , Overland Park , Kansas

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