John Neufeld

BOYS LIE --- a young woman tries to flee the scene of humiliation, and ends up being the target of three of her new male classmates, who think she's had a great deal of experience. She hasn't, and she teaches them a lesson they won't forget!

What can a girl do, being better endowed than any of her classmates?

Gina knows that she’ll be prey to boys who want her as a score. And in a New York City swimming pool, that’s what she becomes.

Fleeing from an assault and its aftermath, Gina and her mother move to California. But the story of her "rape" surfaces there, despite Gina’s efforts to keep it quiet. She herself, in a flashback of terror, lets it escape publicly. Three boys in her new 8th grade class --- Ben, Eddie, and Felix --- begin dreaming aloud of making it with the stacked, "experienced" girl who must be, in their view, looking for more.

What starts as a crude three-man plan ends up as a single boy’s attack. He boasts of success, feeling confident that Gina won’t tell what happened that Saturday afternoon in her kitchen while her mother was away at work. He figures she’ll feel too shy or ashamed. In that, he is right. But he doesn’t know Gina, or what she will do when faced with the reality that, about girls, boys lie. And lies have consequences.

"Short, quick-moving chapters coupled with the subject matter make this a sure winner!"
      --- School Library Journal

Selected as one of the year’s best by YASLA; included in the New York Public Library’s list of 1999-2000’s Best Books for Young Adults

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