Outlaw - graphic novel; Robin Hood, His Life and Legend, Robin Hood, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, The Outlaws of Sherwood by Robin McKinley, Scarlet by A. C. Gaughen, Hood by Steve Lawhead, Bandits and Outlaws. Check some of these out! And see my review of Pretty Crooked below. (There is a spoiler!)....
0Pretty Crooked by Elisa LudwigMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Willa is fifteen and lives with her free-spirit artist mom. She has been to a dozen schools in her young life and is about to make the move again from Colorado to Paradise Valley, Arizona. Paradise Valley is like no place they have ever been before. It is a town where wealth is a way of life -- for everyone. Willa's mom enrolls her in Paradise Valley Prep - an exclusive preparatory academy. For the first time, Willa is accepted into the "in crowd" known as the "Glitterati". Willa begins doing things she has never done before, like spending outrageous amounts of money on clothes to keep up with her new friends.
Life is good until Willa begins to read a school gossip blog trashing some new girls at school. They call them the "Busteds" because they are brought into the school from another district and are attending PV Prep on scholarship. Willa is even more upset when she overhears some of her new friends trashing these girls. Deciding to help them out, Willa takes on the persona of Robin Hood (after some training from a friend). All of the sudden the Busteds are a hit and the Glitterati are mad. When Willa finds out that one of her Glitterati buddies is the author of the gossip blog, she sees red and becomes reckless.
Willa's life spirals out of control when she is caught breaking into a friend's house and is forced to spend the night in Juvie. She is given community service which she serves with Aidan, a boy that annoys and intrigues her from PV Prep. She also finds out that half the school hates her and half the school considers her a hero and have even nicknamed her the "Sly Fox". Aidan drives her home from her first day of community service to find her house being ransacked by a mystery man. This is not the first mystery man in her life. Her mother has been meeting one and will tell Willa nothing about him. Willa and Aidan give chase to the man, but he gets away. When she comes back home, it is to see mom's mystery man driving off and a business card from an FBI agent under the doormat. Mom's mystery man?! And did I mention Aidan and the big kiss that makes her forget everything bad that has happened to her?
Cute read that girls grade 7+ will enjoy. There is some references to major parties and the drinking that goes on (for that reason might do a disclaimer to the younger girls). Otherwise cute and can't wait to see what happens in Pretty Sly with Willa and Aidan, her mom and the mystery FBI agent!
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