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Thick with suspense and simmering with adolescent turmoil, Bad Girls is an action-adventure survival story that pits a group of troubled teens against a forbidding tropical landscape, an elusive enemy, and, worst of all, each other. It's Mean Girls meets Lord of the Flies, and it marks the debut of an innovative new voice in fiction.
Anna Wheeler's parents have had it up to here. They can't seem to control their daughter anymore and so, one night, Anna's yanked from her bed and carted off to Camp Archstone -- bootcamp for troubled teen girls. There, on a vast, remote, sparsely populated island, Anna will be expected to change her ways and repent for the sins her religious father just can't seem to forgive. Here's a hint: There's a boy involved. No, a man.
Life at Camp Archstone is Anna's worst nightmare. Every minute of the day is scheduled, the counselors are hardcore, and one girl is crueler than the next. But when a grueling hike into the forest goes horribly wrong, things go from bad to worse. Stalked by an unknown foe and left to fend for themselves, the girls band together to try to find their way back to civilization -- and that's when the real trouble begins.
- Sales Rank: #2536992 in Books
- Published on: 2005-06-14
- Released on: 2005-06-14
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.00" h x 1.00" w x 5.00" l,
- Binding: Paperback
- 320 pages
From Booklist
After too many infractions of her conservative parents' rules, 16-year-old Anna is involuntarily shipped off to a wilderness survival camp, where her parents hope she will reform her "wild" behavior. Located on a remote Caribbean island, Camp Archstone is frightening and militaristic, and Anna's troubled bunk mates unsettle her. Then a shocking murder during a camp hike sends the girls into a terrifying flight through the jungle, where they confront drug smugglers, potential rapists, and even the violent impulses in each other. The publisher bills this first novel as a cross between Lord of the Flies and heathers, but readers may find more similarities to teen horror movies, particularly in the plot cliches, stilted dialogue, and gratuitous descriptions of scantily clad girls on the run. In fact, a companion film is in the works, and the interest its release will generate may be the biggest justification for purchasing the novel. Still, some readers (the majority of whom will probably be older teens) will enjoy the nail-biting suspense, the jungle survival challenges, and the mean-girls politics. Gillian Engberg
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About the Author
Alex McAulay, author of Bad Girls, Lost Summer, and Oblivion Road, is a graduate of Brown University, and holds a Ph.D. in literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is also an indie-rock musician who has recorded several albums under the name Charles Douglas. He currently lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Lisa. Visit him online at www.alexmcaulay.com.
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Chapter One
Betrayed
The girl with the dirty blonde hair ran down the hillside and began to pick her way rapidly through the trees. Her arms were scratched and torn from their branches, and her damp hair lay plastered across her forehead. She was desperate to get away, but had no idea where she was headed.
The trees parted in front of her to reveal a small pond of brackish water, and she moved to the left, trying to skirt it without being seen. She heard a noise and froze, her breath loud in her ears. Slowly she sank to her knees, keeping as still and silent as possible. Had they found her already?
The noise came again. At first she thought it was the cry of some exotic bird, but it resolved into the sound of a person whistling. Her body stiffened and she pressed herself flat in the shadows between two large rocks at the water's edge.
Maybe they won't see me, she thought. But, oh God, what if they do?
The whistling was audible but distant, somewhere on the other side of the pond. She realized the rocks wouldn't provide enough cover, so she began inching backward, low to the ground.
The whistling ceased.
"Anna?" she heard a voice call out, and her heart pounded in fear. "I know you're out here somewhere." She heard the crackling sound of breaking twigs, the man getting closer. Her muscles coiled to spring into action. She would run again if she had to, she knew that much.
"Pretty stupid," the voice said. She hated the sound of it, like he was mocking her. "You could get hurt out here, easy." He paused. "Christ, it's hot." She heard deliberate footsteps approaching. Her heart was now beating so fast she thought it would leap out of her chest, and she blinked away a drop of sweat.
You can't see me, she thought, willing herself to blend in with the landscape. I'm invisible.
"Anna?" He was much closer now.
Please don't fucking see me, she prayed. Please let him walk right past me.
"Over there! By the rocks!" the man suddenly yelled, triumphant. "There she is!"
Anna exploded upward, limbs flailing for traction on the mud, and she spun like a cornered animal toward him. It was the small man, the one she'd dubbed the Boxer because of his crooked nose. He was just ten yards away, head down, racing toward her.
Anna plunged back into the trees, driven by pure desperation to remain free. She fought off branches with her hands as she forced her body forward. She could hear the Boxer close behind, cursing as the branches snapped back in his face. Her long sprinter's legs pushed her through the underbrush and for a blissful moment she was pulling ahead, until something collided with her so violently it blotted out the light and rattled her jaw. She fell hard onto the muddy ground.
Anna struggled for air as she felt strong arms grasp her around the chest, yanking her upward. She jerked her head back and twisted her body, trying to squirm out of the man's grasp. He smelled gross, like stale sweat and gasoline. It wasn't the Boxer, but the other man, the big one with a fat neck as wide as his shaved head. At least six three and two hundred and fifty pounds.
His breath was hot, and his arms felt like steel bands. Anna wriggled in anger and pain, and his arms pressed harder against her breasts.
"Fantastic!" the Boxer was raving to the big man. He clambered over a rock behind them, out of breath. "You shoulda been a linebacker! You knocked her back to her senses maybe. Boy, she can run."
The big man grunted in response.
Anna tasted iron. She ran her tongue around her mouth and realized she'd bitten her lip in the struggle. Her sides throbbed where the big man still clutched her firmly. She hated the feel of his chest rubbing against her back.
The Boxer materialized in front of them. "You all right?" he asked her.
Anna scowled, the fury radiating out like steam. She was so pissed off, she couldn't even think of what to say.
The Boxer just laughed. "She's giving us the silent treatment." Anna started to feel lightheaded, like she was going to faint, because the big man's arms were constricting her. The Boxer noticed and frowned at his companion. "Hey man, loosen that grip. We don't want to kill her, right?"
"It's loose enough," he replied, but Anna felt his arms slacken and she was able to breathe more freely again.
The Boxer surveyed their surroundings. "We're going to have to drag her up the ravine, and then all the way back to the van. I think I'm too tired." He scratched the crest of his thinning brown hair. He was wiry, with a tanned, angular face, and if it weren't for his mangled nose and receding hairline he might have been handsome. "Anna, if we let you go, will you behave? No more running? We can't spend the whole day chasing after you. There's nowhere to go anyway. It's just marsh and forest all the way down to Miami."
Anna met his blue eyes. "I won't run," she said hoarsely.
He grinned. "Good deal. It's a helluva lot easier if you walk than if we have to carry you."
The big man let her go and stepped away. "Don't do anything stupid," he whispered, "or else you might get your arm broken."
The Boxer frowned and pretended not to hear. Anna wasn't sure which man she hated more. "The road's back this way."
With the two men behind her, Anna began walking through the forest, back to the van and captivity. Hot tears of rage welled up in her eyes. She was so dumb to have tried running. What the fuck had she been thinking? Now she just wanted to curl into a ball and sob, but she wasn't going to let the bastards make her cry. As she stumbled through the forest, she promised herself when it was all over she'd make them pay for what they'd done to her. She'd make everyone pay, if she ever got the chance.
Back in the gray Chevy van, the heat was intense. The Boxer locked her in the back, and she slumped on the narrow metal bench, which was rusted and uncomfortable. She was trapped just like an animal again and the thought made her sick.
The engine started and the van pulled onto the highway. There were no windows except for two circular portholes on the back doors, and they were painted over, making it impossible to see out. The windows were also covered with a wire mesh, which had sliced her hands when she'd tried to break the glass. She'd also tried to kick in the metal partition between the space she was trapped in and the driver's cabin, without any success. Whenever she pressed her ear up to it, she could hear the Boxer and the big man talking, but was unable to decipher their words.
Anna sat back against the vibrating hull of the van. It was noisy and dark inside, hot and airless, and it smelled like old gym socks. She wondered how many girls they'd taken before her. Except for her escape attempt, which had lasted all of three hours hiding in the forest, she'd been in the van since six in the morning and guessed it was now late afternoon. The men had let her out only twice, both times to squat at the edge of the highway and pee. They didn't even care how embarrassing it was for her. Instead they'd laughed and called her a little princess. It was on the second occasion she'd made a break for it, sprinting down the embankment and into the thick forest. She'd known it was futile, but she'd tried anyway, because there was no sense going down without a fight.
Anna was now more tired than she ever remembered being, and she was starving, too. They'd only given her a box of survival biscuits all day and a plastic gallon jug of water. She felt dirty, and disconnected from her body, like it was no longer her own.
When the men stopped at a gas station, Anna heard them open their doors and get out. She leapt up and pounded on the wall. "Help!" she screamed, thinking someone might hear her. "Get me out of here!"
Someone tapped back on one of the painted windows, but it was just the Boxer. She could hear him chuckling and her skin crawled. "Keep it up, baby," he yelled. "No one's gonna rescue your sorry ass."
She pounded again in frustration and heard more laughter. She sat back down on the bench. In anger she kicked at the water bottle and sent it clattering against the side of the van. It rolled back to her feet and she suppressed the urge to cry again. The engine eventually started up and they resumed their journey.
Anna rubbed her eyes and thought about what a nightmare scene it had been when the two men came for her in those dark early hours of the morning.
If only I hadn't come home at all last night, she thought dismally. Then none of this would have happened. But she'd climbed through her bedroom window around three in the morning, after her boyfriend Ryan had dropped her off. They'd been at a party and Ryan had scored some weed for them. She'd been so quiet sneaking back in, totally satisfied her parents had no idea what she'd been doing. She remembered the feeling of sliding between the cool sheets, stretching out on her soft bed, her hair still smelling comfortingly of smoke. She still felt pretty stoned, and she was so tired she fell asleep right away.
The next thing she knew, the lights in her room were blazing, and a voice she didn't recognize was screaming at her. She sat up in bed, terrified, wondering what was going on, and saw a strange man standing over her.
This was the Boxer. The second man, the big one, was blocking the door.
"What the fuck!" she screamed, feeling like her veins had been pumped full of ice water. "Mom! Dad!" She scrabbled against the wall, trying to get to the window, but like a bad dream, everything was in slow motion and she got too scared to move.
"Get out of bed," the stranger commanded. "And knock off that yelling. Your parents aren't going to help you now."
"Dad!" she tried to scream again, but her larynx was constricting in fear and the words came out too softly. All kinds of awful scenarios were racing through her mind. Who were these men and what did they want with her? Was her house being robbed? Was she going to be abducted or something? That had always been a secret fear of hers.
"I said, get up! Maybe y...
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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful.
Lord of the Flies crossed with The Big Doll House
By A Customer
Feeling they have lost control as their sixteen years old child Anna continually defies them and breaks all their rules, the religious Wheelers turn to a radical solution. They hire "soldiers" from Camp Archstone to abduct their daughter and take her to a remote Bahamas Island for several weeks of boot camp. Anna thought her parents were too strict, but they seem permissive as she lives in a survival camp run in the strictest of military styles; insubordination leads to harsh punishment from the in your face 24/7 staff.
Anna fears her bunk mates whose behavior seems over the edge past sanity. However, her terror turns to outright horror when on a forced several miles hike up the mountain someone kills the leader; the others react just as frightened. Everyone panics with the girls fleeing into the jungle while deviant drug dealers pursue them with plans to rape and then kill the teens. To Anna the biggest fear remains her violent bunk mates who cannot understand teamwork is the only way to save their lives.
BAD GIRLS is a heart pumping thriller that never slows down from the moment that Anna is abducted with the concerned unsure consent of her parents and never slows down until the final tropical jungle feverish confrontation. The story line feels like a gender bending Lord of the Flies crossed with female prison movies like The Big Doll House and The Big Bird Cage. Still this is an adrenalin action-packed tale with the audience rooting for Anna to survive her ordeal.
Harriet Klausner
13 of 15 people found the following review helpful.
Review of Bad Girls-A Novel
By Dorrie Wheeler
Bad Girls-A Novel is a book! Yes, people it's a book too! The celebrity gossip blogs are so busy focused on the movie no one is taking the time to actually read the book. The early buzz is that Hilary Duff or Lindsay Lohan may be attached to the movie. The book was written by Alex McAuley. The book reads like a movie. You can tell when you read it that cinema is in the future. The story opens up with a action packed scene. Anna is on the run. Two men on her trail. She is out in the wilderness, scared and hoping that she won't be found. When "The Boxer" and the big fat man finally catch her she struggles and gives them the silent treatment. This scene actually is a little foreshadowing. Anna's parents arrange for her to be sent away due to her "out of control" behavior. This is a good book a very interesting read. If you like Lost or remember the movie Lord of the Flies you will like this book. What I didn't like about the book is that some of the characters seem one dimensional. Perhaps I was picking up on the fact that a man was writing female characters. The cover is awesome but the title is a little unorignal. How many movies, books and songs have been titled "Bad Girls" over the years? I felt like they were acting in the book. But it's a good book and probably will make a good movie.
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful.
Good Girls Finish Last
By A. Dennis
What an awesome book. From page one to three-hundred plus this book is a page turner.
It all starts with Anna's wild, uncontrollable behavior that gets her sent to Camp Archstone on Andros Island. Everything is mechanical in this wilderness camp for bad girls. Every girl has a story to tell and Anna doesn't know who she can trust. On a camping trip something goes horribly wrong and the real adventure begins. The girls must fight for their lives and the reader feels as if they are truly a bad girl. There are so many different scenarios, and secrets living within the island. The whole time Anna has flashbacks of her own secret that she's hiding. Who will make it to safety, if anyone?
This book was a great read. The ending wasn't as strong, it was kind-of sappy in my opinion. Other than that, this makes for a great summer read. I would say it's for the young adult 18+ crowd.
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