num_pages: 208
description: At Mt. Douglas (a.k.a. Mt. Drug) High, all the girls have feathered hair, and the sweet scent of Love's Baby Soft can't hide the musk of raw teenage anger, apathy, and desire. Sara Shaw is a girl full of fever and longing, a girl looking for something risky, something real. Her only possible salvation comes in the willowy form of the mysterious Justine, the outlaw girl in the torn skirt. The search for Justine will lead Sara on a daring odyssey into an underworld of hookers and johns, junkies and thieves, runaway girls and skater boys, and, ultimately, into a violent tragedy.
language: English
title: The Torn Skirt
titlecomplete: The Torn Skirt
genres: Coming Of Age, Chick Lit, Teen, Young Adult, Novels, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Fiction, Canada, Realistic Fiction
ratings_count: 1874
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
publisher: Harper Perennial