![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() and yet, you can tell they're having the time of their lives,” her naked enthusiasm for the edgy, underground sport injects some energy into an otherwise labored tale. When Bliss describes watching “girls dive on the track, leap over one another, pile on the infield for brawls, fly over the rails into the crowd (more than once!). Despite being formulaic, the novel shines in describing the dashing world of roller derby, where the players are hot and have nasty names like Dinah Might, Eva Destruction and Princess Slaya. Bliss soon lies about her age, becomes a derby girl, meets a cute boy and learns several unsurprising life lessons. The girls are entranced by the glammed-up skaters in heavy makeup and fishnet stockings who shove and elbow their way around a track. Yearning to escape the suffocating boredom, Bliss and her best friend, Pash Amini, crash a roller derby event in nearby Austin. It tells the story of Bliss Cavendar, a girl from the fictional town of Bodeen, Texas, whose mother wants her to. Here, the teen angst is embodied in 16-year-old Bliss Cavendar, a blue-haired, Chuck Taylor–wearing indie rebel living in a tiny Texas town of country music–loving beauty-pageant fans. Derby Girl is a 2007 novel by Shauna Cross. Meet Bliss Cavendar, a blue haired, indie-rock loving misfit stuck in the tiny town of Bodeen, Texas.Her pageant-addicted mother expects her to compete for. A budding romance that leaves a best friend left in the dust? Check. Two parents who just don't understand? Check. A main character feeling too cool for school and her plebeian town? Check. ![]() Debut novelist Cross, a screenwriter and former roller derby girl, retreads well-worn YA themes as a path to a roller-derby plot line. ![]()
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