How Girls Are Made

Grown meets Euphoria in award-winning author Mindy McGinnis''s dark muti-POV contemporary novel following three teen girls as their lives intersect on a catastrophic trajectory. Shelby is completely fine. A semiprofessional fighter, she’s been hit more times than she can count. Just because it’s her boyfriend that broke her nose this time, it doesn’t mean she’s damaged. If she were as traumatized as everyone thinks she is, she wouldn’t be able to move on with the new boy at school, who helps her realize everything she wants to be. Fallon is always trying to fix a problem. This time, she can’t stop thinking about Shelby Black getting punched by her boyfriend and how no one her age seems to know anything about sex or relationships. She decides to start the Self-Help and Fitness Training (SHAFT) Club, where she, Shelby, and her best friend, Jobie, answer their peers’ questions. But she soon discovers that as much as her small town needs this space, there are even larger forces set on destroying it. Jobie is invisible. It’s not for lack of trying; she’s the first to hop on the latest social media trend, even if her follower count doesn’t show it. But when a friendly DM opens a whole new world full of admirers seeking clean, good girls like her, she finds the audience she’s always wanted. And when they keep asking for more, she obliges, wrapping all three girls in a trajectory toward tragedy.