num_pages: 304
description: It starts before you can even remember: You learn the rules for being a girl. . . .Marin has always been good at navigating these unspoken guidelines. A star student and editor of the school paper she dreams of getting into Brown University. Marins future seems brightand her young charismatic English teacher Mr. Beckett is always quick to admire her writing and talk books with her.But when Bex takes things too far and comes on to Marin shes shocked and horrified. Had she somehow led him on? Was it her fault?When Marin works up the courage to tell the administration what happened no one believes her. Shes forced to face Bex in class every day. Except now he has an ax to grind.But Marin isnt about to back down. She uses the school newspaper to fight back and she starts a feminist book club at school. She finds allies in the most unexpected people like slutty Gray Kendall who shed always dismissed as just another lacrosse bro. As things heat up at school and in her personal life Marin must figure out how to take back the power and write her own rules.
language: English
title: Rules for Being a Girl
publisher: Balzer + Bray