Revenge of a Not-So-Pretty Girl

Name: Revenge of a Not-So-Pretty Girl
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Carolita Blythe
ISBN: 9781666160062

Author: Carolita Blythe

Narrator: Joniece Abbott-Pratt

Unabridged: 8 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/15/2022

Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Social Themes, Family

Synopsis

Fans of Walter Dean Myers and Rita Williams-Garcia's One Crazy Summer will cherish this gripping story of an African American girl living in 1980s Brooklyn, who overcomes abuse and neglect in discovering real friendship, self-respect, and that pretty and mean don't always win.

Girls who are pretty have a way of looking down their perfect noses at anyone they feel isn't worthy of sharing the air with them. They have a way of making regular girls like me feel inferior for not winning the gene pool lottery. Tormenting them is my way of getting even.

Everyone knows that pretty equals mean, and Evelyn Ryder used to be a beautiful movie star—never mind that it was practically a lifetime ago. There's no time limit on mean. So if you think I feel guilty about mugging her, think again.

But for something that should have been so simple, it sure went horribly wrong.

About Carolita Blythe

Carolita Blythe was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and raised in New York City. A graduate of Syracuse University, she currently resides in Los Angeles, where, when not writing novels, she works behind the scenes on popular television shows. Her debut novel was entitled The Cricket's Serenade. She has also published travel articles and short stories. An avid traveler, Carolita is a New Yorker at heart, who spends summers worshiping the Yankees and autumns pulling for the Jets.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jessica

Looking at this cover and title, I thought I was in for a bubbly book about a girl getting revenge on the pretty girls in school. Ha, boy was I wrong. I guess I should really start reading the back covers of books I get for review before reading them... It's 1984 and 14-year-old Faye has found hersel......more

Goodreads review by Suzanne

The title is sort of deceptive: There’s not really very much revenge in this book, so I’m a bit afraid that teens who pick it up will be expecting some hi-jinks at the expense of mean girls, but that’s not what they will get, so there’s one reason they might not check it out or read it if they do ta......more

Goodreads review by Natalie

I didn't much enjoy this book when I first picked it up, but Faye really turned it around by the end of the novel. For every recycled plot line in the book, there is also an equally unique message unfolding. Faye is the real embodiment of youth crime and broken, destructive homes. She never comes of......more

Goodreads review by Alma

Fourteen-year-old Faye lives with her abusive mother in a rundown section of Brooklyn in 1984. She hasn’t quite developed the womanly body or smooth, sophisticated look of some of the girls in her school, and feels plain, flat chested and ugly. Unable to fit in, she falls in with the wrong crowd and......more