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The Swoop List #1
Give It Up
When five girls at Jackson High School find themselves on a nasty list, they must join together and face the rest of their school. But will their struggles be too much to bear?
- GenresContemporary
128 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 2015
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Stephanie Perry Moore
134 books169 followersSTEPHANIE PERRY MOORE is the author of many Young Adult Christian fiction titles, including the Payton Skky series, the Laurel Shadrach series, the Perry Skky Jr. series, the Faith Thomas Novelzine series, the Carmen Browne series, and the Beta Gamma Pi series. She is also the co-editor for the impactful BibleZine, REAL. Mrs. Moore speaks with young people across the country, showing them how they can live life fully and do it God's way. Stephanie currently lives in the greater Atlanta area with her husband, Derrick, a former NFL player and author, and their three children. Visit her website at www.stephanieperrymoore.com.
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January 16, 2016
5 girls at Jackson High School find themselves on "The Swoop List", which labels the girls as promiscuous. When it seems as if the entire school unites to make their lives miserable; these 5 strangers band together to fight back. The stories presented by these girls are cautionary tales and I would definitely recommend this hi-lo book to reluctant readers.
My only complaint is the flow of the book. Each girl’s narrative is told in alternating chapters which throws off the flow of the story. The author should have either intertwined their stories or told them one at a time.
My only complaint is the flow of the book. Each girl’s narrative is told in alternating chapters which throws off the flow of the story. The author should have either intertwined their stories or told them one at a time.
October 9, 2015
I will definitely let my daughters read this book when they are teenagers! Great book for teenage girls! :)
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July 1, 2024Give It Up
Sanaa arrives at school with a guilty conscious. She’s been messing around with her best friend’s crush Miles. Only to find out her name is number 1 on the Swoop List AKA “The Slut List”. She gets a note from someone who was formerly on the list that calls themselves her “Guardian Angel” and says they’ll guide her through this. Her befriend Toni seems to be happy she’s on the list, but she acts like she doesn’t know who could have put her on it and tells her don’t worry about it. Miles later comes back and acts like he doesn’t know who did it either and then has his way with her.
Willow is number 2 on the Swoop List. She shows up at dance practice and finds out from the other dancers Hilary. She and Hilary fight. Then she goes to question three boys on the basketball team she slept with. All three deny it. One of em calls her a tramp and she’s embarrassed. She gots home and her mom tells her she heard about the list and maybe if the list is causing her to self-reflect they can focus on the positive. (Hunh? What’s positive about sleeping around with three different guys? That you haven’t gotten pregnant yet?)
The 3rd girl is Olive Belle. Olivia lets her boyfriend Tiger convince her to have his two boys run a train on her. Then the next day he sees she’s on the Swoop List and dumps her. Her foster brothers Sean and Charlie go off to find him so they can kick his ass.
Octavia is a white girl that doesn’t get a lot of attention until her name appears on the Swoop List. Then she’s invited by a guy named George to his place. He wants to hit, but she says she’s a virgin. He tells her that can’t be her name is on the list. If she is she can step. He doesn’t have time to train anyone. The next day she finds out he’s lied and told the guys he did her. She starts to change her mind and think not being noticed might not be such a bad thing. When she comes home, she finds her mother drunk, high, and high naked with a man. She goes off on her mom and then starts to cry. She tells her she doesn’t care about her. She tells her if she didn’t she wouldn’t be selling herself trying to provide for her but she promises she’ll do better when she sees Pia crying. Pia says it’s not that. She was raped.
Sanaa sees Toni hanging out with some girls. Deep down she thinks Toni is glad her reputation is soiled so she keeps walking When Toni tries to I intercept her going to the bathroom she sees the girls have written her name on a stall and can only imagine what they would have wrote next. So she punches one of em and ends up in the office. The teacher seems to know about the Swoop List. Sanaa blames her cousin for introducing her to porn early if she’s on the list and give it up to her “boyfriend”. She feels better after the talk but then runs into two punks in the hallway that try to feel her up. She kicks one in the groin when he tries to grab her. She finds out Miles was watching the whole time but did nothing so she writes him off as a punk,
Pia, a shy, Latina, cheerleader tells one of her teachers she was waiting for her mom after a game when three guys grab her, punch her, and put her in their car, and take her to a dark street and force themselves on her. Then she finds herself dropped back off at her apartment. Claire wants to know if the guidance counselor is trustworthy. She says she told her something but doesn’t say what. The cheerleaders confront her and Pia says she doesn’t know how she got on the list.
Willow bumps into Sanaa in the hallway and introduces herself. After telling her they have to stick together. Sanee tells her she needs to go another way to the guidance office to avoid the thugs. Willow tells Mrs. Davis that it all started for her was playing hide and seek and the older boys showing her more and more. Mrs. Davis says that doesn’t
There’s a moment where Charles and Tiger almost get into a fight but are broken up by Sean. Olive goes to try to convince Charles not to fight Tiger, and share a moment. Charles and Tiget into it again and Tiger pulls a gun. Olive is trying to stop Sean and Charles, then the gun goes off. School officials rush in and they find out Charles is ok. Octavia goes to Charles and Olive wants her to stay out of it. Tiger tflees. Octavia meets up with Mrs. Davis and confides she was tired of no one notching her. But Mrs. Davis points out that negative attention isn’t better. She won’t tell how she got on the list. Ice starts to try to get it with Octavia after school, but Shawn shows up and punches his lights out. She tells him to stop and offers to drive him home. He says he couldn’t let him hurt her.
Pia’s mom picks her up from school and tells her she’s taking her to see a doctor. Pia’s mom hasn’t told her her pregnancy was because of rape as well. Pia’s been showing signs and the doctor confirms it. Pia thinks about it and she knows she doesn’t want to abort the baby. She goes to the game their having that night with thoughts of the results of the HIV test she took. She gets sick at the game and tries to cover it by saying she has the flu. But the others aren’t fooled. Pia runs into a guy on the team (Steven). His smell is familiar to her. It turns out, Pia *does* get the abortion. After it’s over she cries and prays. She thinks about how she wants the people to pay and how Steven said he was sorry. She thinks about how she didn’t want to kill the baby but she wasn’t ready to be a mother.
Sanaa sees Willow outside on morning at school with a vulgar word (HO) on her brand-new car. Sannaa offers to help her get the word off and Willow is surprised by her kindness. After this text, and sit by each other at lunch. Inside Sanna sees Toni and Miles locked in an embrace. She has to explain the situation to Willow. Willow tells her they need to find the other girls on the list and unite. Later Willow thinks about how happy she is that Sanaa and she are now friends. There’s an old guy (Dawson) that Willow’s been tight with forever that shows over to show concern, but she brushes him off and kicks him out. Later, she wonders why because he actually cares about her. So, she goes to sleep. When she wakes up he’s standing over her. Dawon tells her they have to go. Her brother’s been in a car accident and has wrecked her car. Willow tries to take up for Dawson and tries to switch places with him so her brother won’t get in trouble with the police because he has no license. She just gets a citation. But her parents go off on her. Dawson says he’s proud of her.
Olive gets a text from Tiger that says if she doesn’t hook up his boys again, Charles and Sean are dead. She then runs into Willow and Sanaa. They offer her their friendship. They run into Tiger but they just brush off his advances. The police come to the school and they see them questioning Charles. Olive intercepts when she sees Charles getting an attitude with the police. They see Sean talking to Octavia. Octavia calms Sean down. He says he wants to get to know better. Olive steps to Octavia and tells Octavia to step. Octavia asks him what’s her problem. She accuses her of calling rape on him. Mrs. Davis shows up and she tells them she wants to see all of them in her office the next day. They don’t want this but now they don’t have a choice. They all agree to stick together at the meeting and help each other.
Willow has the idea for all the Swoop girls to dress alike on “Twin Day”. Pia is against it but Wilow tells her it’s the only way all the mess will stop. Pia agrees but doesn’t really wanna do it. There’s applause as they walk down the hall and cheers from the guys. Some of the girls hate a little but Willow puts them in their place. After the game, they have a girl’s night. Pia isn’t enjoying the party and locks herself in the bathroom. She attempts suicide but the rest of them come in and stop her. She then tells them about her abortion. They all love on her and this makes her change her mind. They all admit the mistake they made to be on the list and make promises to give up their trifling ways and hold each other accountable.
My Thoughts:
I started this series a long time ago and on one of the books in the middle, so I decided that since it’s Black History Month and this is a black series (and there are so few of them) I’d finish it. It was.. actually I don’t have a whole lot of thoughts. I think it’s sad that people don’t have anything better to do with their lives than make up lists and ruin the reputation of others. Recently it put me in the mind of something that was going around in the news taken from an anime cartoon called “Death List” If you hadn’t heard what it was about a kid started his own death list at his school. I’m not sure how it was found. It got all the parents in an uproar. I’m not sure but I think they wanted the principal suspended or they were trying to find out why this went undealt with.
The most interesting part was left open. That was who the “Guardian Angel’ was and how was it if she’s dead did she intend to help them? But then since they found a way to help themselves by unifying I’m not sure what good she can do now. But maybe this mystery is answered later.
Rating: 5
Sanaa arrives at school with a guilty conscious. She’s been messing around with her best friend’s crush Miles. Only to find out her name is number 1 on the Swoop List AKA “The Slut List”. She gets a note from someone who was formerly on the list that calls themselves her “Guardian Angel” and says they’ll guide her through this. Her befriend Toni seems to be happy she’s on the list, but she acts like she doesn’t know who could have put her on it and tells her don’t worry about it. Miles later comes back and acts like he doesn’t know who did it either and then has his way with her.
Willow is number 2 on the Swoop List. She shows up at dance practice and finds out from the other dancers Hilary. She and Hilary fight. Then she goes to question three boys on the basketball team she slept with. All three deny it. One of em calls her a tramp and she’s embarrassed. She gots home and her mom tells her she heard about the list and maybe if the list is causing her to self-reflect they can focus on the positive. (Hunh? What’s positive about sleeping around with three different guys? That you haven’t gotten pregnant yet?)
The 3rd girl is Olive Belle. Olivia lets her boyfriend Tiger convince her to have his two boys run a train on her. Then the next day he sees she’s on the Swoop List and dumps her. Her foster brothers Sean and Charlie go off to find him so they can kick his ass.
Octavia is a white girl that doesn’t get a lot of attention until her name appears on the Swoop List. Then she’s invited by a guy named George to his place. He wants to hit, but she says she’s a virgin. He tells her that can’t be her name is on the list. If she is she can step. He doesn’t have time to train anyone. The next day she finds out he’s lied and told the guys he did her. She starts to change her mind and think not being noticed might not be such a bad thing. When she comes home, she finds her mother drunk, high, and high naked with a man. She goes off on her mom and then starts to cry. She tells her she doesn’t care about her. She tells her if she didn’t she wouldn’t be selling herself trying to provide for her but she promises she’ll do better when she sees Pia crying. Pia says it’s not that. She was raped.
Sanaa sees Toni hanging out with some girls. Deep down she thinks Toni is glad her reputation is soiled so she keeps walking When Toni tries to I intercept her going to the bathroom she sees the girls have written her name on a stall and can only imagine what they would have wrote next. So she punches one of em and ends up in the office. The teacher seems to know about the Swoop List. Sanaa blames her cousin for introducing her to porn early if she’s on the list and give it up to her “boyfriend”. She feels better after the talk but then runs into two punks in the hallway that try to feel her up. She kicks one in the groin when he tries to grab her. She finds out Miles was watching the whole time but did nothing so she writes him off as a punk,
Pia, a shy, Latina, cheerleader tells one of her teachers she was waiting for her mom after a game when three guys grab her, punch her, and put her in their car, and take her to a dark street and force themselves on her. Then she finds herself dropped back off at her apartment. Claire wants to know if the guidance counselor is trustworthy. She says she told her something but doesn’t say what. The cheerleaders confront her and Pia says she doesn’t know how she got on the list.
Willow bumps into Sanaa in the hallway and introduces herself. After telling her they have to stick together. Sanee tells her she needs to go another way to the guidance office to avoid the thugs. Willow tells Mrs. Davis that it all started for her was playing hide and seek and the older boys showing her more and more. Mrs. Davis says that doesn’t
There’s a moment where Charles and Tiger almost get into a fight but are broken up by Sean. Olive goes to try to convince Charles not to fight Tiger, and share a moment. Charles and Tiget into it again and Tiger pulls a gun. Olive is trying to stop Sean and Charles, then the gun goes off. School officials rush in and they find out Charles is ok. Octavia goes to Charles and Olive wants her to stay out of it. Tiger tflees. Octavia meets up with Mrs. Davis and confides she was tired of no one notching her. But Mrs. Davis points out that negative attention isn’t better. She won’t tell how she got on the list. Ice starts to try to get it with Octavia after school, but Shawn shows up and punches his lights out. She tells him to stop and offers to drive him home. He says he couldn’t let him hurt her.
Pia’s mom picks her up from school and tells her she’s taking her to see a doctor. Pia’s mom hasn’t told her her pregnancy was because of rape as well. Pia’s been showing signs and the doctor confirms it. Pia thinks about it and she knows she doesn’t want to abort the baby. She goes to the game their having that night with thoughts of the results of the HIV test she took. She gets sick at the game and tries to cover it by saying she has the flu. But the others aren’t fooled. Pia runs into a guy on the team (Steven). His smell is familiar to her. It turns out, Pia *does* get the abortion. After it’s over she cries and prays. She thinks about how she wants the people to pay and how Steven said he was sorry. She thinks about how she didn’t want to kill the baby but she wasn’t ready to be a mother.
Sanaa sees Willow outside on morning at school with a vulgar word (HO) on her brand-new car. Sannaa offers to help her get the word off and Willow is surprised by her kindness. After this text, and sit by each other at lunch. Inside Sanna sees Toni and Miles locked in an embrace. She has to explain the situation to Willow. Willow tells her they need to find the other girls on the list and unite. Later Willow thinks about how happy she is that Sanaa and she are now friends. There’s an old guy (Dawson) that Willow’s been tight with forever that shows over to show concern, but she brushes him off and kicks him out. Later, she wonders why because he actually cares about her. So, she goes to sleep. When she wakes up he’s standing over her. Dawon tells her they have to go. Her brother’s been in a car accident and has wrecked her car. Willow tries to take up for Dawson and tries to switch places with him so her brother won’t get in trouble with the police because he has no license. She just gets a citation. But her parents go off on her. Dawson says he’s proud of her.
Olive gets a text from Tiger that says if she doesn’t hook up his boys again, Charles and Sean are dead. She then runs into Willow and Sanaa. They offer her their friendship. They run into Tiger but they just brush off his advances. The police come to the school and they see them questioning Charles. Olive intercepts when she sees Charles getting an attitude with the police. They see Sean talking to Octavia. Octavia calms Sean down. He says he wants to get to know better. Olive steps to Octavia and tells Octavia to step. Octavia asks him what’s her problem. She accuses her of calling rape on him. Mrs. Davis shows up and she tells them she wants to see all of them in her office the next day. They don’t want this but now they don’t have a choice. They all agree to stick together at the meeting and help each other.
Willow has the idea for all the Swoop girls to dress alike on “Twin Day”. Pia is against it but Wilow tells her it’s the only way all the mess will stop. Pia agrees but doesn’t really wanna do it. There’s applause as they walk down the hall and cheers from the guys. Some of the girls hate a little but Willow puts them in their place. After the game, they have a girl’s night. Pia isn’t enjoying the party and locks herself in the bathroom. She attempts suicide but the rest of them come in and stop her. She then tells them about her abortion. They all love on her and this makes her change her mind. They all admit the mistake they made to be on the list and make promises to give up their trifling ways and hold each other accountable.
My Thoughts:
I started this series a long time ago and on one of the books in the middle, so I decided that since it’s Black History Month and this is a black series (and there are so few of them) I’d finish it. It was.. actually I don’t have a whole lot of thoughts. I think it’s sad that people don’t have anything better to do with their lives than make up lists and ruin the reputation of others. Recently it put me in the mind of something that was going around in the news taken from an anime cartoon called “Death List” If you hadn’t heard what it was about a kid started his own death list at his school. I’m not sure how it was found. It got all the parents in an uproar. I’m not sure but I think they wanted the principal suspended or they were trying to find out why this went undealt with.
The most interesting part was left open. That was who the “Guardian Angel’ was and how was it if she’s dead did she intend to help them? But then since they found a way to help themselves by unifying I’m not sure what good she can do now. But maybe this mystery is answered later.
Rating: 5
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October 30, 2015
As a middle school librarian and parent to a thirteen year old girl, I find this series highly inappropriate for teenage girls. In this, the first in the series, we meet the five girls who are on the "Swoop List", which is apparently a list of girls who are thought to be sexually promiscuous by their high school peers. (SPOILERS begin.) In the very first chapter, Sanaa finds herself on this list, is called a slut, and later finds herself "on the floor, half naked" while her boyfriend leaves her house with a "Peace, I'm out." The next girl is on the list because she actually is promiscuous at her school, which she later blames on early development and a liking for conducting her own brand of "science experiments" with boys. The third girl is "given to" her gang-leader boyfriend's thugs and then dumped, the fourth is a virgin who puts herself on the list and gets more than she bargained for, the fifth is a rape victim who's school guidance counselor recommends should "just stay strong" and further advises her that "dealing with this is going to make you strong. You won't be broken forever. I promise." When one of the girls is confronted by her parents, she calls her dad out for watching X-rated movies while her mom sleeps and tells her mom, "I seen your diary and read where you talked about your toy you can't live without." The novel itself is poorly written, overly loaded with teen slang such as "stank", "ho", and other nonsense, and has nothing good to say for girls since throughout the novel the girls repeatedly find themselves at fault for their situations while also having all these unspoken feelings about one boy or another. The school psychologist is a joke and gives the reader the feeling that you just have to live through humiliation and move on while someone else is encouraging the girls to "get revenge" against whoever put them on the list. I'm sure some teens will find the trashy content and even the poor writing and dialog intriguing, but this is in no way appropriate for middle grades and probably not much better for older teens. There are much better offerings out there that would do a much better job of reflecting what happens when young girls are labeled as sluts and whores by their peers based on lies, mistakes, and immaturity.
April 19, 2015
Hi-lo read for reluctant readers.
August 20, 2015
Not my style of book, but I think it is good for girls who may be struggling with the same issues.
May 23, 2015
This was not your typical Stephanie Perry Moore teen book. Yes, the situations were ones that teens deal with only a daily basis.
January 14, 2018
I heard this advertised by the author as a diverse, Christian book for teens. It is not Christian; furthermore, it is not even a respectable book for teens.
June 5, 2017
I think this book is for young adults who think these type of books are interesting to me.
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January 8, 2019This book is Amazing being 16 years of age i am so inlove with urban books , books like this. I feel personally all girls my age teenage girls should read this , i know a few that go through things like that being in highschool is tough and things like this do be happening , probably to your own child and yo u dont know.
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