{"id":100,"date":"2012-05-25T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=100"},"modified":"2015-02-09T11:06:06","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T17:06:06","slug":"how-to-be-bad-by-lauren-myracle-sarah-mlynowski-e-lockhart-fiction-florida-roadtrip-funny-friendships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=100","title":{"rendered":"How to Be Bad, by Lauren Myracle, Sarah Mlynowski, E. Lockhart (fiction) – Florida roadtrip, funny friendships"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"book<\/a>Road trip!
\nGrab some junk food and a towel, a couple of maps,some sights to see, and make some memories on the road.
\nWonder if Jesse really thought this whole road trip thing through before she and Vicks and Mel left town…<\/p>\n

Yes, there really is a Niceville<\/a>, Florida and a huge Old Joe stuffed gator<\/a> at Wakulla Springs and a mysterious Coral Castle<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The three teens take turns telling their story as a straightforward trip down to the University of Miami<\/a> turns into quite the adventure. The three authors who collaborated on How to Be Bad<\/i> took their own road trip<\/a> so they could weave Florida’s true atmosphere into every page.<\/p>\n

Create great summer memories with good times, good friends, and good books, including these intriguing road trip novels, too:
\nA Love Story Starring My Dead Best Friend<\/i><\/a>, by Emily Horner
\nDon’t Stop Now<\/i><\/a>, by Julie Halpern
\nThe Statistical Probability of Falling in Love<\/a><\/i>, by Jennifer E. Smith
\n**kmm<\/p>\n

Book info<\/b>: How to Be Bad \/ Lauren Myracle, Sarah Mlynowski, E. Lockhart. Harper Teen, 2008. [Lauren’s website<\/a> and Facebook<\/a>]\u00a0 [Sarah’s website<\/a>]\u00a0 \u00a0 [Emily’s website<\/a> and blog<\/a>]\u00a0\u00a0 [publisher site<\/a>] \u00a0 [book trailer<\/a>]\u00a0 Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n

My Book Talk<\/b>:\u00a0 Summer before senior year should be more than just work, everyone says. So Jesse decides on a quick road trip with her best friend Vicks, and yeah, the new girl can go, too. Long miles and long days later, the three have more adventures than they planned on and make some memories they didn\u2019t expect.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s just a road trip for three girls who work at Waffle House together \u2013 Jesse isn\u2019t really trying to outrun the news from Mom\u2019s cancer doctor. And Vicks needs to visit her boyfriend at college football camp (not calling her for two weeks \u2013 huh!). Even misplaced rich girl Mel wants to see huge Old Joe gator and Coral Castle and other unique sights featured in Fantastical Florida<\/i>. Nine hours to Miami, nine hours back, an easy weekend drive, right?<\/p>\n

Jesse does need some time away from Mom and all the dogs at their trailer for grooming and Mom\u2019s boyfriend with the icee cart. They just can\u2019t see how praying about Mom\u2019s diagnosis would help, how going to church with Grandma would make them all feel better.<\/p>\n

The little sister to a houseful of big brothers, Vicks loves sports and weird stuff like Old Joe, refuses to be a clingy girlfriend \u2013 still not cool that Brady won\u2019t call her from the university after they\u2019ve been dating for a year. She\u2019ll just remind him how she\u2019s different from all those athlete-worshippers he\u2019ll meet in Miami.<\/p>\n

Mel\u2019s rich dad keeps moving their family around, so here they are in Niceville, another big house, another place to not fit in. A middle kid, she gets outvoted by her crazy younger brother and perfect older sister on everything. Having a chance to make some real friends – that would make paying for any road trip worthwhile.<\/p>\n

A temperamental car, roadmaps gone wrong, detours and cute guys and crazy weather \u2013 each chapter is written from one girl\u2019s viewpoint by one author, creating a triple look at a simple road trip that turned into so much more. Who knew that trying to be a little bad could turn out to be good after all?<\/p>\n

Extras at the end of the book include the Bad Girls\u2019 Playlist (music for a road trip), a Bad Girls\u2019 quiz, and notes on how writing pals and popular young adult authors E. Lockhart, Sarah Mlynowski, and Lauren Myracle wrote How to Be Bad<\/i> together when they lived far apart. (One of 5,000 books recommended on www.abookandahug.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Road trip! Grab some junk food and a towel, a couple of maps,some sights to see, and make some memories on the road. Wonder if Jesse really thought this whole road trip thing through before she and Vicks and Mel left town… Yes, there really is a Niceville, Florida and a huge Old Joe stuffed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,19,30],"tags":[22,7,4,75,11,5,18,239,44,43,39,49,15,21,73,35,3,6,8],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventure","category-fiction","category-legends","tag-behavior","tag-beliefs","tag-belonging","tag-brothers","tag-communication","tag-coping","tag-family","tag-florida","tag-friendship","tag-growing-up","tag-love","tag-memories","tag-relationships","tag-self-image","tag-summer","tag-surprises","tag-teens","tag-travel","tag-us-author"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5097,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions\/5097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}