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Boys, Girls, and Other Hazardous Materials by Wiseman, Rosalind is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Boys, Girls, and Other Hazardous Materials about?

Wisemans best-selling nonfiction title for adults, Queen Bees and Wannabees: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and Other Realities of Adolescence (2002), inspired the movie Mean Girls, but in her first novel for young adults, its the guys who behave badly. Charlie cant wait to leave her middle-school frenemies behind and start high school, where she hopes to make cool, interesting, nonevil, nonvindictive friends. Her wish is granted on her first day, when she meets smart, supportive Sydney and reconnects with Nidhi, who shared Charlies eighth-grade misery. Soon, the inseparable trio widens to include some guys, whose involvement in a disturbing hazing incident sets off a chain of moral dilemmas. Charlies narrationfilled with IMs and textssets a breezy tone and includes some occasional four-letter frankness: Chicks before Dicks, declares Sydney. Never choose a guy over a friend. But in her realistic portrayal of everyday freshman anxieties, romance, and the sometimes toolish culture of male high-school athletes, Wiseman prompts readers to consider vital questions about authentic friendship, personal responsibility, and the slippery roles of bully, bystander,

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Author

Wiseman, Rosalind

Publisher

Speak

Published

2010

Language

EN

Category

work of fiction

Rating

3.87 / 5 (4,737 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14