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Name: The Torn Skirt
Author: Rebecca Godfrey
Year: 2001
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Popularity: 1.4
Genres/categories: Young adult, Fiction, Contemporary
Culture: Canada

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"The Torn Skirt is a hot book, a thrilling romance of teen rage and longing -- like S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders, except about girls."  -- Mary Gaitskill, author of Two Girls, Fat and Thin

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.
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