You Know Im No Good, Jessie Ann Foley
You Know Im No Good, Jessie Ann Foley
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You Know I'm No Good

Author: Jessie Ann Foley

Narrator: Hayden Bishop

Unabridged: 7 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/13/2020

Synopsis

This razor-sharp novel from Printz Honor winner and Morris Award finalist Jessie Ann Foley will appeal to fans of Wilder Girls and The Grace Year. Mia is officially a Troubled Teen™— she gets bad grades, drinks too much, and has probably gone too far with too many guys.But she doesn’t realize how out of control she seems until she is taken from her home in the middle of the night and sent away to Red Oak Academy, a therapeutic girls' boarding school in the middle of nowhere.While there, Mia is forced to confront her painful past at the same time she questions why she's at Red Oak. If she were a boy, would her behavior be considered wild enough to get sent away? But what happens when circumstances outside of her control compel Mia to make herself vulnerable enough to be truly seen?Challenging and thought-provoking, this stunning contemporary YA novel examines the ways society is stacked against teen girls and what one young woman will do to even the odds. * A Chicago Public Library Best Teen Fiction Selection * A Banks Street Best Children's Book of the Year *

About Jessie Ann Foley

Jessie Ann Foley is the Printz Honor–winning author of the YA novels The Carnival at Bray (also a Morris Award finalist), Neighborhood Girls, Sorry for Your Loss, and You Know I’m No Good. For middle graders, she has written Breda's Island and Severe and Unusual Weather. Her work has been named to best-of lists by Kirkus Reviews, ALA Booklist, YALSA, Entertainment Weekly, and many other outlets and has been featured on school and library recommended reading lists all across the United States. Jessie lives with her family in Chicago, where she was born and raised. You can visit her online at jessieannfoley.com.

Reviews

Goodreads review by daph pink ♡ on April 29, 2022

"Because if God were real, why would they cut down so many kind and decent people in the prime of their lives, so many brilliant artists, and then decide to spare a piece of shit like me?" I was so fucking angry when this book ended not because it was bad or something like that but it made me fee......more

Goodreads review by Jessie on May 12, 2020

The seed for You Know I’m No Good was planted all the way back in 2007, when, for three days in a row, one of my freshman students didn't show up to class. On the fourth day, I contacted our counseling office, where I learned that Penny* had been taken from her bed in the middle of the night and sen......more

Goodreads review by Dave on October 19, 2021

"An ice horse galloping into fire"--Joy Harjo,"She Had Some Horses" I’ll confess two things, at the outset: 1) that Jessie Ann Foley is my friend and a former student in my program to prepare folks to become English teachers, which she did as her work for several years; she’s visited my YAL classes n......more

Goodreads review by Kim on July 05, 2020

Just wow. I don’t know of any other author more adept at creating fully-dimensional characters who breathe right off of the page and into your life. And not just the main characters, but the secondary ones. Not just the teens, but the adults. There is no two-dimensionality here; there are no shortcut......more

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