Weregirls: Birth of the Pack

by Petru Popescu

When sixteen-year-old Lily Willison and her friends Nikki, Arielle, and Grazia start up a girls' soccer club and name their team the Weregirls, they soon find themselves drawn into a battle between good and evil. Lily's father, a supernatural guardian, makes contact with Lily after his death and reveals that she has magical powers--as do her friends.

As the girls learn more about their powers, they inadvertently awaken the Breed, sworn enemies...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765316412
• ISBN13: 9780765316417
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.2"
• Age Range: 13 to 18 years
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

only half way

I am only half way through the book and love it so far!!! I hope that there will be a sequel! I picked up the book not really reading the back, but am having a hard time putting the book down and I am 38!!

Imaginative teen adventure, sports, high school dilemmas, and Indian magic

Weregirls by Petru Popescu is a classic teen adventure that combines, pop-culture, Native American wisdom and wizardry, realistic difficulties and relationships between high school students, and touching emotional ties between children and their parents. He is able to capture both the voice of the 15 year-old hero as well as her surrounding school and family atmosphere with authenticity and poignant details. Her agony over the loss of her father is felt throughout, but is nicely balanced with the sheer joy of the soccer games she plays. All this becomes secondary when she is faced with the greatest challenge of her life, Andra, the pretty rich socialite, whose evilness lurks underneath. Can Lily and her team of Weregirls defeat Andra, or will her familial magic powers be futile?

Courtesy of Teens Read Too

Lily and her friends start up a club soccer team, calling themselves the Weregirls after stories Lily's now deceased father told them. What they don't realize is that the stories he was spinning were more than just tall tales. Lily and her friends have an ancient magic hidden inside of them and it's starting to show. Unfortunately for them, a new girl, Andra, moves into town with her heart set on a varsity team. Andra's moneyed background makes her a force to reckon with and, before long, she has the principal on her side. Andra's also discovered Lily's secret -- and she'll do anything to get her hands on magical powers. Can Lily learn enough about her powers in order to save herself, her friends, and her soccer team? BIRTH OF THE PACK is the first in the new, edgy WEREGIRLS series. It's sure to be a hit with girls reading vampire and supernatural tales. Reviewed by: Jennifer Rummel

fine urban fantasy

Lily Willison has never gotten over the death of her father and she feels alienated from her mother who is seeing another man. She and her friends Nikki, Arielle, and Grazia call themselves the "weregirls", a name given to them by Lily's father. Nikki set up a soccer club and it is a success. Rich girl Andra Hewitt arrives on the scene and with the help of her father forms her own soccer team. Andra wants Lilly to give her powers like she has but Lily doesn't know what she is talking about until her late father communicates with her that she has magic in her as do her friends and that they all have different were girls for a spirit guide. He tells her to enjoy the magic now that the weregirl has awakened inside of her but Andra, whose own powers have been brought to the surface unwittlingly by Lily, has stolen her magical mirror. The weregirls have to fight Andra and her evil powers that come form the evil Breed in a classic good vs. evil confrontation. Although this is aimed at the teen audience, adults who like a good urban fantasy will enjoy reading BIRTH OF THE PACK. In addition to being a fun fantasy, Petru Popescu enhances the characterizations with the admiration for and grief of the loss of a loved one. The heroine is strong willed and independent, not wanting to be part of the in crowd but not really sure where she belongs. Her willingness to accept her powers and fight evil will endear her to the young warrior in all of us readers. Harriet Klausner