Audacious
CBC Books | CBC | Posted: February 23, 2017 7:44 PM | Last Updated: March 3, 2017
Gabrielle Prendergast
There's nothing about 16-year-old Raphaelle that fits in. Not her body, not her hair, not her clothes, and definitely not her attitude. Everything she says offends someone. Everything she does is wrong. Especially her art, even though she knows she's good at it. So when her family moves to a small Prairie city, Raphaelle decides to remake herself as "Ella" and vows to fit in at her school. But a brooding boy in her art class rocks Ella's new world, as hard as she may try to be a "normal" girl. Can she put the pieces back together? Written entirely in verse, Audacious is just that — a daring story of a girl who struggles with her own artistic impulses and individuality.
Audacious is for readers ages 12 and up.
From the book
I will leave behind
The paralyzing nightmares
The smell of whiskey
The callous concrete
The sound of a locking door
My insolvent heart
So easily led
Seduced by their Siren smiles
Their swift promises.
Things not remembered
Entirely accurately
Not quite understood
The things I'd rather
Not memorialize in
A journey eastward
I discard, reject
Purge from my mind and soul so
My reinvention
Can begin.
From Audacious by Gabrielle Prendergast ©2013. Published by Orca Books.