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  <title><![CDATA[Story of a Girl]]></title>
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  <default_description>When she is caught in the backseat of a car with her older  brother's best friend - Deanna Lambert's teenage life is changed forever.   Struggling to overcome the lasting repercussions and the stifling role of  &quot;school slut,&quot; she longs to escape a life defined by her past.  With subtle  grace, complicated wisdom and striking emotion, The Story of a Girl reminds  us of our human capacity for resilience, epiphany and redemption.</default_description>
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      <name><![CDATA[Sara Zarr]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Some of the book reminded me of living in a small town where you can’t avoid people you dated years ago, have co-workers who are not your friends, think people were friends when they were drug buddies, where there aren’t many options for employment, and everyone is kinda hanging around after sch...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10225215">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Like her older brother Darren, Deanna is a big disappointment to her father.  When in 8th grade Deanna's father caught her with a high school boy in his car.  Nothing has been right since.  She dreams of moving out with Darren, his girlfriend and their baby and she  hopes to help pay for a move with...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10875691">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Fri Dec 12 11:53:47 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Dec 12 11:55:16 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A Story of a Girl by Sara Zarr<br/><br/>I read the book A Story of the Girl by Sara Zarr. This book is crazy. It’s about a girl name Deanna who is claimed to be the biggest skank at her school because her brothers “supposedly’’ Best friend took advantage of her, but as a 13 year old girl s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39958690">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="36602821">
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  <read_at>Sun Nov 23 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sara Zarr hit the nail on the head with her novel, Story of a Girl. In fact, I finally grabbed a pen and wrote down citations of things that kept striking a chord with me, totalling 29 paragraphs, bits of insights and places where she conveyed most perfectly the character and what it's like to be in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36602821">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="29322144">
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 06 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked <em>Story of a Girl</em> because it's very honest and realistic. The narrator, Deanna, is a 16-year-old girl who's still recovering from an awkward and embarrassing sexual experience she had three years ago.  When she was in eighth grade, her dad busted her and her 17-year-old pseudo-boyfriend having...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29322144">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="22060455">
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    <body><![CDATA[Reviewed by Amber Gibson for TeensReadToo.com<br/><br/>Have you ever done something that you wish you could take back? Something that changed your life forever? <br/><br/>We've all been there. We've all done something that we regret. Just like all of us, Deanna was once caught doing something th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22060455">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="14877027">
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    <body><![CDATA[Story of a Girl, by Sara Zarr was an okay book, not great but not horrible. It was a pretty easy read and had a nice plot but it wasn't a book that i would recommend a lot because i didn't have a &quot;wow&quot; reaction to this book. The basic plot of this book is that the book focused around a gir...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14877027">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="4123646">
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  <read_at>Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[So, I usually don't read books in one sitting, but that's exactly what I did with this one over the weekend.  The first page of the book sums up the plot much better than I ever could:<br/><br/>&quot;I was thirteen when my dad caught me with Tommy Webber in the back of Tommy's Buick, parked next t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4123646">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="52968420">
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this book.  I had been wanting to read it for a long time and I am so glad that I finally got the chance, it showed that not every girl needs a boy to save her, that not every girl needs anyone to save her for that matter.  Sometimes you just have to figure out life yourself.  That is exacly...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52968420">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="38464162">
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a really cool book.  and i learned never let your brothers best friend get to you...]]></body>
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    <review id="28424265">
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 27 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Deceptively simple, but moving, story about a girl who accidentally gets herself into a lot of trouble. I liked that she was always regretting what she said, but couldn't really stop herself from doing it. There's something about writing an unsympathetic character or at least one whose actions kind ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28424265">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Mar 03 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[ Trying to forget what about happened three years ago when her father caught her in the backseat with her brother’s best friend, Tommy, Deanna’s life is never the same. She has to deal with be calling the ‘’school slut’’ at age thirteen to age sixteen, even though she only did it with on...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41535676">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sat Nov 14 19:17:25 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[     The world is overfilled with rumors and gossip about everything nowadays. If we don't even know what happened to certain people that led them to have a bad reputation, we shouldn't judge them because they were probably the victims. In this compelling novel, seventeen year old Deanna Lambert is ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77803268">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was taken by surprise with this book. I had heard good reviews but it was just beautifully written. I loved how the author created a world where things are not black and white. The characters are realistically complicated, especially her dad, who I spent most of the book being annoyed at yet also ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72775830">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="70486427">
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;They never tell you this part in sex ed, how to talk about what you did and why you did it and what you thought about it, before, during, and after.&quot;  <br/><br/>The perfect line, because I think this is why YA readers read books like Sara Zarr's.  The story is about an average girl who ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70486427">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="64827909">
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[When Deanna was 13, her father caught her in the backseat of a car with a 17-year-old Tommy, her brothers best friend.  The story got around her small, suburban town and Deanna was labeled a slut, by both her peers at school and her father.  Two years later, Deanna is 15 and struggling with the iner...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64827909">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Jun 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Fri Jul 03 18:13:32 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Deanna Lambert is known for something she did when she was thirteen years old.  That’s when her dad caught her and seventeen year old Tommy in the back of Tommy’s car.  Tommy told everyone that she was easy, that she was a joke, and Deanna’s father has never forgiven her.  Now Deanna is sixtee...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62068480">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <name><![CDATA[Danielle]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Tue May 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Tue May 12 18:47:25 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Things I didn't like: the language, it was too short, and sometimes a little bit weird. Not gonna lie. <br/><br/>Things I did like: The main character, the story progression, how I could totally relate to the ending. <br/><br/>I should probably explain that list eh? With a book like this, I kind...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55743388">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Feb 27 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sat Feb 28 21:08:31 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Deanna Lambert lost her virginity at the age of thirteen. Her first was seventeen year old Tommy Webber. She was in eighth grade, he was a high school senior. Their relationship was nothing special; no real feelings for each other, no caring, no love. The sex meant so little to Deanna that while it ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47664026">more...</a>]]></body>
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