Slut

by KerryCohenHoffmann (Author)

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  Paperback
  2006

  $3.40

  Come on, he says. Hop in. My heart pounds. I can feel sweat gathering at my armpits. I don't think so. Why not? I can't, I say. Not now. Okay, he says. Another time then. He winks. He turns on his signal and pulls back onto the street. I watch his car get smaller then disappear around the bend. Instead of relief I feel disappointed, like I've just missed out on something big. My chance to matter. Fourteen-year-old Jessica doesn't know who she is anymore. Her once strong mother is falling apart after a messy divorce, and Jessica doesn't even have the energy to help her. She has her own problems, not least the school photography contest which requires her to submit a self-portrait; an impossible task when her own identity is a mystery to her. The only thing Jessica seems sure of is the great feeling she gets when someone is checking her out...A cautionary tale about a teenage girl who uses her newfound sexuality as an escape, until she realises just what it's costing her.