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Wildfire #60
Nice Girls Don't
Tory knew it wasn't nice, but she felt it was right.
Tory Travis just wanted to play ball. But little things started to get to her. The boys' team went by in a bus while Tory and her teammates were squished into a station wagon. The boys were budgeted for uniforms while the girls had to have a bake sale to raise the money. But her mother and Kenny remind her that nice girls don't make fusses.
Only Jonathon is on Tory's side. He's on her side when she comes up with a plan to change things. But Tory knows that if she's going to battle the school board, she risks losing the support of the people she loves the most.
Tory Travis just wanted to play ball. But little things started to get to her. The boys' team went by in a bus while Tory and her teammates were squished into a station wagon. The boys were budgeted for uniforms while the girls had to have a bake sale to raise the money. But her mother and Kenny remind her that nice girls don't make fusses.
Only Jonathon is on Tory's side. He's on her side when she comes up with a plan to change things. But Tory knows that if she's going to battle the school board, she risks losing the support of the people she loves the most.
- GenresYoung Adult
203 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1984
About the author
Caroline B. Cooney
131 books1,779 followersCaroline Cooney knew in sixth grade that she wanted to be a writer when "the best teacher I ever had in my life" made writing her main focus. "He used to rip off covers from The New Yorker and pass them around and make us write a short story on whichever cover we got. I started writing then and never stopped!"
When her children were young, Caroline started writing books for young people -- with remarkable results. She began to sell stories to Seventeen magazine and soon after began writing books. Suspense novels are her favorites to read and write. "In a suspense novel, you can count on action."
To keep her stories realistic, Caroline visits many schools outside of her area, learning more about teenagers all the time. She often organizes what she calls a "plotting game," in which students work together to create plots for stories. Caroline lives in Westbrook, Connecticut and when she's not writing she volunteers at a hospital, plays piano for the school musicals and daydreams!
- Scholastic.com
When her children were young, Caroline started writing books for young people -- with remarkable results. She began to sell stories to Seventeen magazine and soon after began writing books. Suspense novels are her favorites to read and write. "In a suspense novel, you can count on action."
To keep her stories realistic, Caroline visits many schools outside of her area, learning more about teenagers all the time. She often organizes what she calls a "plotting game," in which students work together to create plots for stories. Caroline lives in Westbrook, Connecticut and when she's not writing she volunteers at a hospital, plays piano for the school musicals and daydreams!
- Scholastic.com
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February 25, 2016
The cover and title is atrocious but it's actually a nuanced view of a middle-school girl trying to combat the sexist treatment of the boys' and girls' basketball teams.
April 23, 2014
Oh gosh, I remember reading this when I was in middle school. My mom almost flipped out when she saw the cover and title because she thought it was something naughty.
February 5, 2024
Oh my goodness, how I wish this wasn't a "Wildfire romance" with a silly, suggestive title! What nice girls don't do in this story is make a fuss about sex discrimination.
This book is about Title IX and the inequity in funding between the boys' and girls' sports teams. It's really quite good. Is there dated, ableist language? Yes: stupid, dumb, crazy, and insane appear in the text plenty. Worse, dunce and retarded make an appearance, too. There's some not so body-positive language as well. That's the 80s for you, when even a book centered around discrimination has so much room for improvement itself.
Everyone tells Tory to calm down and keep quiet and be a good girl, including her mother and her boyfriend and her best friend and her teammates. It's disgusting. But that's the point. This isn't a teen romance. I could really see this, updated, as an awesome "historical fiction." Keep it set in the 80s, but take out the most cringey moments.
There's some quite articulate and clever writing in here. "You'd expect her personality to be soft, too, but she's tough. You could snag a sweater on her conversation" (75). Read it if you can, I say!
This book is about Title IX and the inequity in funding between the boys' and girls' sports teams. It's really quite good. Is there dated, ableist language? Yes: stupid, dumb, crazy, and insane appear in the text plenty. Worse, dunce and retarded make an appearance, too. There's some not so body-positive language as well. That's the 80s for you, when even a book centered around discrimination has so much room for improvement itself.
Everyone tells Tory to calm down and keep quiet and be a good girl, including her mother and her boyfriend and her best friend and her teammates. It's disgusting. But that's the point. This isn't a teen romance. I could really see this, updated, as an awesome "historical fiction." Keep it set in the 80s, but take out the most cringey moments.
There's some quite articulate and clever writing in here. "You'd expect her personality to be soft, too, but she's tough. You could snag a sweater on her conversation" (75). Read it if you can, I say!
November 20, 2024
Nice girls don't make a fuss, and they don't cause trouble 🙄
This was pretty irritating, firstly because of the way the girls were constantly trodden on and looked down on, and told to go away, secondly because Tory's boyfriend Kenny was a complete rat and general bastard, and thirdly because even when the facts were laid out, people still didn't want to listen!
This was pretty irritating, firstly because of the way the girls were constantly trodden on and looked down on, and told to go away, secondly because Tory's boyfriend Kenny was a complete rat and general bastard, and thirdly because even when the facts were laid out, people still didn't want to listen!
January 16, 2011
I picked up this book for free from a friend and was pleasantly surprised to find the writing quite clever and the character development thorough and interesting. I had all the wrong ideas about his book when I picked it up, which is admittedly why I originally grabbed it. It is not about sex and teenage peer pressure. Gals would appreciate this gem more than fellows.
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