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• Clear and coherent principles to improve decision-making in the youth
  justice system;
  
• More appropriate use of the courts by addressing less serious cases
  effectively outside the court process;
  
• Fairness in sentencing;
  
• Reduction in the high rate of youth incarceration;
  
• Effective reintegration of young persons;
  
• Clear distinction between serious violent offences and less serious
  offences

4. Book-club members who have actually read this book have called its plot
"depressing," "disgusting," and "too much about poor people." Does this suggest
that you, as a reader, have a moral obligation to say that you liked the
book? 

5. Early in the prologue, we learn that lab animals will be mistreated as the
story progresses. In literature, why is it so much sadder when an animal dies
than when a person does? Why does God choose us to read horrible things like
this?

Gr 8 Up—Alternately edgy, charming, funny, and sweet, these
15 stories address issues confronting adolescents. Integral to each selection is
the complicated relationship between the girls and their mothers. In the
hilarious "Faceless on the Farm," a spunky girl writes emails to a fashion
consultant at a teen magazine asking for advice in her efforts to convince her
mother to allow her to wear makeup. Conversely, in "Wax World," Amy resists her
mother's idea of beauty and refuses to get her legs waxed, preferring to leave
them as they are. In "The Giant Regina," Georgia copes with her mother's
newfound lesbianism, while in "My So Not Ballerina Boobs," large-breasted Meghan
deals with the mortifying prospect of bra shopping with her embarrassing mother.
The selections touch on the multiple meanings of the word "cleavage," and
together form an aptly named collection of stories about body image and mothers
and daughters coming together and growing apart. A fresh, honest, and
entertaining anthology.—Ragan O'Malley, Saint Ann's School, Brooklyn, NY