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Bad Girl: Confessions of a Teenage Delinquent

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An advertisement for an abusive facility that breaks kids and then puts them back together as brainwashed robots... as told by one of their so-called 'successes'. Shocking only in the way that the author seems to truly believe that being isolated from human contact, allowed no friends and no conversation, and spending most of the day sitting on her bed (not being allowed to talk or even look at things), truly helped her 'recover'.

Book arrived quickly and in good condition. This book is a story of a girl entering rehab and her experiences there. It is told honestly and is a bird's eye view of experiences in a place that sounds harsh. However, I am familiar with the reputation of the facility she describes which does have a good reputation, which makes it all the more interesting to see it from a patient's viewpoint. It is a personal journey, which takes great courage in the telling of it. She is obviously a good girl who came to be deeply troubled during her adolescence.

For some reason I thought that this book would focus more on Abigail Vona's teenage delinquency than it did. Rather, it mostly followed her through the behavior rehab place she was unexpectedly sent to by her father. It really is amazing how Abigail's viewpoint towards her actions changed as she spent more and more time at the rehab center. The book follows her through the entire program, AA and all. I enjoyed this book, though I didn't think it was 5 star worthy. It was good, just not as I expected. Makes you really glad you've never been to a rehab like that.

"Bad Girl" by Abigail Vona is a good look into the life of a teen out of control and placed in a facility to help change her wild ways. Although she wasn't all that wild, the facility helps her cope with her dysfunctional family life, and the way she views her actions. She meets other girls with problems even worse than hers, but learns to listen to them, whether their life stories or advice to her. "Bad Girl" is a truue story of what happens when a teen "delinquent" is sent away to confront her life and problems. Although this book isn't as good as, say, "A Million Little Pieces," it still speeds along quickly and is very intriguing.

Not a memoir of delinquency but a chronicle of Vona's incarceration in a juvenile "boot camp." Atrociously written by someone who comes across as a spoiled rich girl with a fondness for stereotypes, and whose "delinquency" seems to have involved nothing more heinous than dating a drug dealer and indulging in a brief "runaway" period to a vacation cabin with friends. Not recommended. (For a more compelling story written by a more sympathetic narrator in less painful prose, see Daphne Scholinski's The Last Time I Wore a Dress.)

Just because Vona dabbled in drugs or other "bad" things as a teen, she's labeled a "bad girl." I can relate to much in the story because the writing is so raw and real I am ripped open as a reader with the writer's brutally honest words.

Like the books CONFESSIONS OF A CATHOLIC SCHOOLGIRL and PROZAC NATION this is a must read for any teen or young woman that struggles to find herself in a mixed up world.

A thorough and brutally honest account of a long stay in a juvenile psychological hospital. Very, very well written.

I hope Abigail Vona will write again, and tell about her life after she returned to the outside world.

i got this book a long time ago, and i was very disappointed when i read it. i just thought it would be more interesting, and it wasn't.

It was great because of the real life story that you got to follow and being able to see the struggles that you face as a young addict was insightful. I really enjoyed reading this book and thought that she really stayed true to life with it.

this is an inlightening book about a young girls struggles with addiction. abigail vona is a typical teenage girl that happens to make mistakes that land her in a level 3 lockdown facility. this is a great book for young girls struggling in there own lives, a way to see how bad someones life can truely be. this book brings you into a world most people will never have to expiriance. everything from restraintment to finding whats really important.