A year in girl hell: Trashed by Meredith Costain
Hardie
Grant
Egmont,2009. ISBN
9781921502316
(Age 10-12) A
year in girl
hell: Trashed follows the life of Alysha as she makes the
transition to high
school. In the process of fitting in she
leaves her
primary school friends to join the 'shiny' group of popular girls.
Alysha sees herself as 'a big fat lump. But
I'm going to do something about it. Just
like Paige and Jayde.' Her new friends are nicknamed the 'Chuck twins'
and
Alysha even goes as far as forcing herself to throw up her meals too in
order
to get thinner. Alysha's beautiful older sister Bec and her busy
parents, who
seemingly have little time for her, make her teenage transition even
harder.
Alysha
finds
herself doing all the dirty work for the 'shiny' group as she strives
to avoid
being a 'loser.' When they ask her to send incriminating photos about
another
student all around the school Alysha finally realises the controlling
influence
they have over her. Admitting to herself that she 'had been an absolute
cow all
year' Alysha tries to rejoin her former friends Lexi, Mia and Michi.
Trashed
is the
fourth and final book in the A girl in hell series about
growing up
and
fitting in. Each book stands alone as
they follow different girls through their transition to high school.
Melbourne
based author Meredith Costain is a prolific writer with her own website .This book
will be popular with 10-14 year
girls.
Kay
Haarsma