Dear Big V
by Ellen W. Leroe
Courtney Condon, a funny, off-beat junior, is caught smack in the middle of the war that's raging between the Lewds and the Prudes at Delaware-Valley High School. One of the most committed of Prudes, Court’s the founder of Donuts and Coffee, an abstinence club at Dull-Val. But when Courtney, a reporter for the school newspaper, is assigned an Op Ed piece that forces her to work with Lance, the school “player” and hottest guy at school—and who represents everything Courtney despises—she finds that this up-close and personal contact with Lance throws her into a Whirlwind of Confusion over her chaste ideals. Court wrestles with the conflicting messages her hormones are sending her—the wakeup call neither her friends nor the Lewds have been able to make her understand. As a different battle rages at home, Courtney’s staunchly devout, strict-Catholic mom, who has secrets all her own, is pushing the limits of abstinence and her own form of prudishness to the point of alienating the entire family, from Courtney’s patient father and her banished older brother, even to Courtney herself—especially when Mom catches Court in a lip-lock with Lance in his car, right in her very own driveway! Laugh-out-loud funny, Dear Big V illuminates the conflict between hormones and values that teens face every day.
Read What Writers Are Saying About Dear Big V:
Dear Big V is “...fresh, funny and relevant, and original. Courtney is a likable and sympathetic character….The dialog is both zippy and natural.”
—Ellen Conford, author of The Alfred G. Graebner Memorial High School Handbook of Rules and Regulations, an ALA Best Book for Young Adults
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Pub Date: September 2009