{"product_id":"seton-girlsisbn-9780593529362","title":"Seton Girls","description":"“Legitimately unputdownable. It’s a scathing critique of toxic masculinity wrapped up in a gorgeously written prep-school mystery.”—Becky Albertalli, \u003ci\u003eNYT\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eSimon Vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSeton Academic High is a prep school obsessed with its football team and their thirteen-year conference win streak, a record that players always say they’d never have without Seton’s girls. What exactly Seton girls do to make them so valuable, though, no one ever really says. They're just \"the best.\" But the team’s quarterback, the younger brother of the Seton star who started the streak, wants more than regular season glory. He wants a state championship before his successor, Seton’s first Black QB, has a chance to overshadow him. Bigger rewards require bigger risks, and soon the actual secrets to the team's enduring success leak to a small group of girls who suddenly have the power to change their world forever.“Legitimately unputdownable. It’s a scathing critique of toxic masculinity wrapped up in a gorgeously written prep-school mystery.”—Becky Albertalli, \u003ci\u003eNYT\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eSimon Vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e★\"Poignant conversations examining the lack of accountability for wealthy, well-protected men in power permeate this thought-provoking story.\"–\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly, \u003c\/i\u003estarred review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A timely examination of consent, power, and who owns the rights to the truth.\"–\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003eThomas executes a smartly plotted debut where every page is fraught with tension.... This bold and unapologetic story of female empowerment will stay with readers long after the last page.\"—\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"A timely addition to the #MeToo conversation, one that asks important questions about privilege— especially white male privilege—and consent.\"—Washington Independent Review of BooksWhen she isn't writing, Charlene Thomas works as a marketer. \u003ci\u003eSeton Girls\u003c\/i\u003e is her first novel.Excerpt from \u003ci\u003eThe Seton Story\u003c\/i\u003e, October 30, 2019\u003cbr\u003eIt isn’t easy to create change that lasts.\u003cbr\u003eIn fact, it’s really, really hard.\u003cbr\u003eBut we did it, here at Seton. And we believed we did it together.\u003cbr\u003eDon’t you remember the stories? All the tales passed on from seniors to freshmen year after year?\u003cbr\u003eCooper Adams. Who he was. What he meant. How he came in and changed our whole entire world.\u003cbr\u003eThe tales I’ve heard go like this:\u003cbr\u003eOnce upon a time, thirteen years ago, the heavens placed upon us Cooper Adams. He had dimples that could seduce a housewife and threw a spiral that could dent a brick wall. He inherited a pretty good football team in a really good division, and he led that team to undeniable greatness. An undefeated season that no team—­not ­Billingsley, not St. Mary’s, not Anderson Prep—­had ever seen before. And as he did it, he united a school that had only ever cared about football to care about its girls as well. He was our ally. A feminist before it was even cool.\u003cbr\u003eHow, you ask?\u003cbr\u003eWell, the tales say that during the summer of 2006, just before he would take over as Seton Academic High School’s Varsity quarterback, he sat in his basement and penned a cheer. When it was finished, he taught it to his team. And then, at Seton’s first game of the season, right after halftime, the entire football team stood on benches and faced the crowd—­faced\u003ci\u003eus—­\u003c\/i\u003eas they recited the legendary \u003ci\u003eSeton Girls\u003c\/i\u003e cheer for the very first time.\u003cbr\u003eCooper Adams did other cool stuff, too. He convinced the school to create Seton Girls swag to go with all the Seton Football stuff sold in the online bookstore. He donated the proceeds from the football team’s Season of Giving bake sale to a women’s shelter, instead of to another junior football league.\u003cbr\u003eCooper Adams saw us. Cooper Adams \u003ci\u003eloved\u003c\/i\u003e us.\u003cbr\u003eWhy, you ask?\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBecause he couldn’t have had his perfect season without us.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThose were his words. On October 27, 2006, in the very first center spread quarterback feature that Seton ever ran, he was asked why he cared so much about the girls. What was it that made us special? What did he want the rest of the world to know?\u003cbr\u003eAnd he said: “I want all those girls to know that we couldn’t have had this perfect season without them.”\u003cbr\u003eI read the quote myself when I was researching whatever the hell it is I’m writing now, which I know is the exact opposite of the “I-­cannot-­tell-­a-­lie\/Isn’t-he-a-hero?” quarterback feature that all of you were expecting to see. I want to say I’m sorry, but I’m not. I just want us to be okay.\u003cbr\u003eI imagine, at the time that Cooper’s words were first published, Seton girls everywhere sighed longingly and collapsed into the nearest arms like they were at a BTS concert. Because Cooper was so perfect. Because he was, and continues to be, our star.\u003cbr\u003eEvery year that followed, Seton quarterbacks stood on the foundation of what he built. Undefeated season after undefeated season, like we were\u003ci\u003emagic.\u003c\/i\u003e But Cooper was only replicated, never duplicated.\u003cbr\u003eUntil now.\u003cbr\u003eBecause we get to have his kin. His \u003ci\u003eblood\u003c\/i\u003e. His brother, with his own delicious dimples and killer spiral.\u003cbr\u003eBut if you thought, like I did, that that made us the lucky ones . . . \u003cbr\u003eYou were wrong.","brand":"Dutton Books for Young Readers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303530483941,"sku":"NP9780593529362","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780593529362_a786704b-8165-4e41-a97d-65dd77a22281.jpg?v=1730754580","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/seton-girlsisbn-9780593529362","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}