Goodbye, Amanda the Good (Library Binding)

From Publishers Weekly
"Perceptive and sympathetic, Shreve's savvy novel focuses on a seventh-grader (Joshua T. Bates's older sister) suffering the first throes of adolescent angst," wrote PW in a starred review. "Readers will recognize their feelings and problems on every page." Ages 10-up.
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From School Library Journal
Grade 6-8-Amanda Bates, older sister of Joshua from Shreve's earlier books (all Knopf), has turned 13, and overnight everything about her life seems wrong-clothes, hair, friends, and parents. She feels adrift in seventh grade, not part of any group, completely different from the girl she was in elementary school. When she attracts the notice of Slade, ninth-grade hunk with a reputation for bad behavior, classmates who belong to "The Club" suddenly become interested in her. These girls dress in black, change their names, disdain authority, smoke, and shoplift. They are fascinatingly different and Amanda longs to join them. As she becomes acquainted with Slade, she finds that most of the rumors about him are just that, and underneath it all is a pretty decent kid who wants to be her friend. And joining the Club quickly loses its attraction when Amanda participates in a shoplifting incident, cuts school, and has to lie to the principal. Shreve captures her p