The Shape of a Girl / Jewel

by Joan Macleod

In an imaginary letter to an absent older brother, Braidie struggles to understand the torture and killing of a teenage girl by a group of her school-mates. MacLeod's young protagonist enters all the bright open avenues of peer-group play and the dark blind alleys of individual and collective terror, as she discovers within herself both the capacity for and the conflict between impulses of good and evil. In thinking back on the history of her own...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0889224609
• ISBN13: 9780889224605
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Talonbooks
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Shape of a Girl

An insightful look at school violence through the eyes of a young teenage girl. The book provokes thought on the consequences of staying silent and not standing up to bullies.