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Product Details
Simon Pulse, June 2009
Trade Paperback, 272 pages
ISBN-10: 1416975586
ISBN-13: 9781416975588
Grades: 9 and up
Description
Spencer "Responsible" Davis is nowhere ready to "give up the V," as opposed to her hormonally crazed crew of friends, obsessed with the who-what-when-where-how of it all. "It" being . . . well, you get it. Even Spencer's male friends, who claim to have expertise in the matter, offer their services to help relieve her of that pesky letter, much to her embarrassment.
But when new-kid Benjamin enters the picture, Spencer begins to rethink her "responsible" moniker, and for the first time she wonders if she's found just the right guy worth trading in her V-card.
But when new-kid Benjamin enters the picture, Spencer begins to rethink her "responsible" moniker, and for the first time she wonders if she's found just the right guy worth trading in her V-card.
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Browse Inside Giving Up the VHow did you come to write this book?
I was sitting in the waiting room of the doctor's office when an older male doctor asked the young twenty something receptionist about his last patient. She was a teen who was brought in by her mother to get on the pill. The girl confided in the doctor that she wasn't ready to Give up the V yet. The doctor wasn't sure what that meant and had to ask the hip young receptionist. My eavesdropping paid off and Giving up the V was born.
Kirkus Reviews, September 30, 2011
...to judge the contest. One year I was sent two YA books: Perfect You by Elizabeth Scott, and Giving Up the V by Serena Robar. I loved those books. Maybe it was because they were so fresh, maybe because they were so different from the adult ...
