Courtney Condon, afunny,off-beat junior,is caughtsmack in the middle of the war that'sraging between the Lewds and the Prudes at Delaware-Valley High School.One of themost committed of Prudes, Court'sthe founder of anabstinenceclubat Dull-Val. But whenshes assignedan Op Ed piece for the school paper thatforces her toworkwithLance, theschool "player" andhottest guy at school, she finds that this up-close and personal contact with Lance throwsher into a Whirlwind of Confusion over her chaste ideals. Courtwrestles withthe ...
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Courtney Condon, afunny,off-beat junior,is caughtsmack in the middle of the war that'sraging between the Lewds and the Prudes at Delaware-Valley High School.One of themost committed of Prudes, Court'sthe founder of anabstinenceclubat Dull-Val. But whenshes assignedan Op Ed piece for the school paper thatforces her toworkwithLance, theschool "player" andhottest guy at school, she finds that this up-close and personal contact with Lance throwsher into a Whirlwind of Confusion over her chaste ideals. Courtwrestles withthe conflicting messages her hormones are sending her--the wakeup call neither her friends nor the Lewds have beenable to make her understand.As adifferent battle rages at home, Courtneys staunchly devout, strict-Catholic mom, who has secrets all her own,ispushing the limits of abstinence and her own form of prudishness to the point of alienatingthe entirefamily, even to Courtney herself--especially when Mom catches Court in a lip-lock with Lance in his car, right in her very own driveway!Laugh-out-loud funny, DEAR BIG V illuminatesthe conflict between hormones and values thatteens face every day.
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