The Virginity Club

Earlier today I finished one of three books I picked out at the Hastings in College Station. It's called The Virginity Club, by Kate Brian, also the author of The Princess & the Pauper. When I bought this book I checked to see what age group that this book was intended for and found that it was directed at pre-teens. I found the moral issues in the book to be very pertinent to what many kids go through at a high school or even a junior high age. It gives not only the pretty side of the things, but also the reality. Which in a small school can be very harsh. People have the tendency to gossip, but if you hold your morals and values high then you can overcome anything anyone says. It also deals with issues showing that no teenager is perfect. Even Mandy, who appears as the rich, Miss All-American, has to deal with her father being put into prison for tax fraud. Debbie deals with rumors of her kissing encounters being played up with far more done than actually happened. Eva deals with an unbearable shyness that is holding her from the guy she daydreams about, and Kai deals with an unreasonable attempt to shut out her past and learn to trust her friends. Overall, this book deals with a lot of coming of age issues that young adults may go through in their adolescence. Parents cannot always teach the lessons that can be learned by sharing someone elses stories. I really enjoyed reading this book and I couldn't put it down. Maybe if I could have, I would have studied for my Geology test a bit more. I would recommend this book to read to any young adult, but would caution young readers due to thematic elements.