When She Was Good (by Norma Fox Mazer)

"When She Was Good" is a pretty good book. I enjoyed it, but there is some violence, language, and sexual content that makes it for older, more-mature audiences only.

I loved this book so much, i was given it as a book to read this year as a 9th grader and I LOVED it. the only reason i gave it a chance was because everyone in my class was talking about how confusing it was and only a person like me could understand it. So i started reading it and i finished the whole book in one sitting, it was like...i was reading a story that i could relate too. I plan to buy this book and keep enjoying it for years to come and pass it down to my kids when they reach the Oh so hard teen years and i know that when i get older i will forget all the troubles i had as a teen and not understand anymore, but i am very positive no matter what issue my teen is having this book can give them guidence to help not only others but theirselves also. As for the sexual content...what about it? Im sure that we all had that "friend" when we were younger that we had feelings for. There was nothing wrong with that because i had the same feelings as Em but it never reached that level. And the situation that Em was being harrassed by male teenages/friends/complete strangers for sex struck something close to me. The same happened to me and I felt that Em was me and I was Em. We both had the courage to stop it once and for all and to move on with life after it happened. Dont you think that messages like that are missing in books now? I sure think so, and i believe any child that even enters middle school needs to read this to find themselves even a little to know that its okay for this to have happened to you but whats better is to move on and push forward to have a better life then what was handed to you