Bad Apple [Paperback]

If I really wanted to open up, I'd confess that I really am the liar everyone believes I am.

Everyone thinks Tola Riley is crazy. Everyone except Mr. Mymer, her art teacher. He doesn't care about her green hair, or nose ring—and he gets her paintings and lets her hang out in the art room during lonely lunch periods.

Although Tola likes to keep to herself, when rumors start flying about an affair between her and Mr. Mymer, she is suddenly at the center of a scandal. The whole town is judging her—even her family. When Mr. Mymer is suspended, she has no choice but to break her silence. The question is, will anyone believe her?

Theres wit and cleverness as well as sympathy in both the writing and in the touches of fairytale allusion. This is both an absorbing read and a thoughtprovoking one.A creatively constructed story with a modern-day scandal.A provocative premise, which is by turns hilarious and touching.A clever, sardonic character study. Tola and her family are fascinating, quirky-yet-believable, and wholly likable. Visual artists will love this homage to creativity, and teens outside the status quo will find a kindred spirit in plucky Tola.[Tola] is an unusual and likable narrator. Readers will laugh, hurt, and roll their eyes along with this witty individualist of a heroine and her friends and supporters.Rubys novel has plenty to distinguish it. Tola is one of a kinda creative artist with a distinct worldview.Praise for Good Girls: Harrowing, honest and wickedly funny.Pervaded by melancholy, witty, frank about sex, at pains not to indulge in stereotyping, GOOD GIRLS will undoubtedly appeal to readers made savvy about the otherworld of American school life.A frank, realistic portrayal of teen life.Praise for Play Me: Guy lit with a brain and a heart, this has plenty to offer both romantics and cynics about love, film, and transformation.A good coming-of-age story where boy meets rlÓ*