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Camille couldn't be having a better summer -- she kills it as Ophelia in her community theater's production of Hamlet, catches the eye of the cutest boy in the play, and nabs a spot in a prestigious theater program. But on the very night she learns she got into the program, she also finds out she's pregnant. She definitely can't tell her parents. And her best friend Bea doesn't agree with the decision Camille has made.Camille is forced to try to solve her problem alone ... and the system is very much working against her. At her most vulnerable, Camille reaches out to Annabelle Ponsonby, a girl she only barely knows from the theater. Happily, Annabelle agrees to drive her wherever she needs to go. And in a last minute change of heart, Bea decides to come with.Over the course of more than a thousand miles, friendships will be tested and dreams will be challenged. But ultimately, the girls will realize that friends are the real heroes in every story.Girls on the Verge is an incredibly timely novel about a woman's right to choose. Sharon Biggs Waller brings to life a narrative that has to continue to fight for its right to be told, and honored.



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Sharon Biggs Waller

Sharon Biggs Waller is the author of the critically acclaimed young adult novels The Forbidden Orchid and A Mad, Wicked Folly and the up-coming Girls on the Verge. She lives on a 10-acre hobby farm in Northwest Indiana with her husband Mark, two horses, ten dairy goats, four cats, two dogs, thirty laying hens, a gaggle of geese, and a turkey. She is a proud Planned Parenthood clinic volunteer. You can find her at www.sharonbiggswaller.com.



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