• Age: 13 to 18
• Grade: 8 to 12

Welcome to Anne Bradstreet College, an all-girls prep school in Boston, where a high SAT score is the ultimate status symbol, followed closely by a string of Tiffany pearls. At ABC, as the school is affectionately known, high school isn’t just about shoes, boys and weekend getaways; it’s about becoming more accomplished than Joan of Arc. Good Girls follows the various personalities of the ABC Debate Team, a collection of high-achieving young women who never break curfew, always do their homework, and all have plans of attending Ivy League colleges. Perhaps the most over-achieving of all her friends is Allie Denning, a tenth grader who is the youngest captain of the ABC Debate Team in the school’s long history. Little does Allie know, her tidy life is about to change. Enter the 15 year-old Octavia Irving, a wild party girl from Montreal, and daughter to now-estranged trust fund-baby parents, Sophie and Mordecai. Allie is a consummate rule-follower, while Octavia loves to break any rule she can for the sake of it. By getting to know each other, both girls influence and change one another. Ultimately, Good Girls is a feminist coming-of-age story about two very different young women. Each girl must decide whether to embrace the life she’s been living, or rebel against her current reality. Good Girls is the first book in a planned series of witty, daring and feminist-first YA novels that will follow Allie and Octavia throughout their time as students at ABC.

Shalta Dicaire Fardin is a Gender Studies graduate, who works in advertising. She lives in Toronto, Ontario, and for her four-legged child Jasper. Sarah Sahagian is a PhD Candidate in Gender Studies and also writes about pop culture on the internet. She wants nothing more than to tell stories that show teenage girls how strong they really are. In high school, Sarah was an internationally ranked public speaker and debater, representing Canada multiple times at the World Individual Debating and Public Speaking Championship. She lives in Toronto.

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Sarah Sahagian earned her undergraduate degree in history and gender studies from Ontario’s Queen’s University. She then went on to complete her MSc in gender from the London School of Economics. Sarah is currently a PhD candidate in gender, feminist and women’s studies at York University and feels fortunate to be able to call Dr. Andrea O’Reilly her supervisor. Sarah was born and raised in Toronto, the same city she resides in today. She also has one of the coolest mothers in the world, who will even watch teen movies with you if you ask her and looks a good ten years younger than her actual age.

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