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Dare Me
Contributor(s): Abbott, Megan (Author)
ISBN: 0316250546     ISBN-13: 9780316250542
Publisher: Back Bay Books
OUR PRICE:   $23.74  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: December 2012
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Thrillers - Suspense
- Fiction | Coming Of Age
- Fiction | Literary
Dewey: FIC
Physical Information: 0.99" H x 6" W x 9" (1.06 lbs) 400 pages
Themes:
- Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 157003
Reading Level: 5.1   Interest Level: Upper Grades   Point Value: 11.0
 
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Publisher Description:
From the award-winning author of The Turnout and Give Me Your Hand: the searing novel of friendship and betrayal that inspired the USA Network series, praised by Gillian Flynn as "Lord of the Flies set in a high-school cheerleading squad...Tense, dark, and beautifully written." Addy Hanlon has always been Beth Cassidy's best friend and trusted lieutenant. Beth calls the shots and Addy carries them out, a long-established order of things that has brought them to the pinnacle of their high-school careers. Now they're seniors who rule the intensely competitive cheer squad, feared and followed by the other girls -- until the young new coach arrives.

Cool and commanding, an emissary from the adult world just beyond their reach, Coach Colette French draws Addy and the other cheerleaders into her life. Only Beth, unsettled by the new regime, remains outside Coach's golden circle, waging a subtle but vicious campaign to regain her position as "top girl" -- both with the team and with Addy herself.

Then a suicide focuses a police investigation on Coach and her squad. After the first wave of shock and grief, Addy tries to uncover the truth behind the death -- and learns that the boundary between loyalty and love can be dangerous terrain.

The raw passions of girlhood are brought to life in this taut, unflinching exploration of friendship, ambition, and power. Award-winning novelist Megan Abbott, writing with what Tom Perrotta has hailed as "total authority and an almost desperate intensity," provides a harrowing glimpse into the dark heart of the all-American girl.