Title: Purity
Description: Sixteen-year-old Shelby finds it difficult to balance her mother's dying request to live a life without restraint with her father's plans for his "little princess," which include attending a traditional father-daughter dance that culminates with a ceremonial vow to live "whole, pure lives."
Subjects: Fathers and daughters, Coming of age, Fiction, Purity (Ethics), Virginity, Juvenile fiction, Children's fiction, Fathers and daughters, fiction, Values, fiction, Father-daughter relationship