mishystars 's review for:

Girls Like Us by Gail Giles

4.0

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This was a quick read, but it was by no means an easy read. The two protagonists in this story are both developmentally disabled girls who have recently graduated high school and are living on their own, as caretakers to an older woman, for the first time. Giles does an amazing job of giving them both their own voices and illustrating the very real struggles that they have gone through: poverty, sexual, physical, and emotional abuse, among others. Recommend.