Girls on Fire - Robin Wasserman
Girls on Fire is a book about boundaries, about testing where those boundaries lie when you are an adolescent and exploring how far you are willing to push your own. Occasionally, if you're daring enough or have someone to nudge you on further, you might stray beyond what society deems acceptable, and then ...well then things become interesting, or perhaps dangerous. Every generation has its own role models that inspire the youth of their day to challenge the boundaries of what society has deemed "safe" and through them find a way to discover and better express their own identity. For the purposes of Robin Wasserman's novel, set in 1992, that person is Kurt Cobain, but for some fans in Girls on Fire whose personalities are a little more extreme, there would appear to be no boundaries whatsoever. Hannah Dexter however is a good girl from a respectable family in the small town of Battle Creek in a remote corner of Pennsylvania. After an embarrassing run-in with Nikki,...