Leftover Girl

Leftover Girl

C.C. Bolick

  • 4.1 out of 5
  • 972 ratings
  • 283 pages
  • PG-13
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Overall Content Rating: Parents Strongly Cautioned PG-13

This is a young-adult story centered on a teen girl navigating a new school, friendship drama, family secrets around adoption, and escalating danger involving captivity and a police investigation. Dialogue reflects typical teen conflict, including mild swearing, name-calling, and occasional slang about things being unfair. Parents should expect emotional intensity around belonging, trust, and sibling and friend rivalries, plus non-graphic but real peril when characters fight to escape harm and when past violence is implied through investigative details. Sampled sexual terms are used in non-sexual senses only; there is no explicit sexual content in those passages.

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Crude Moderate

17

Teens frequently use dismissive insults in banter, jealousy, and frustration, and sometimes call situations unfair with mild crude slang. The tone matches high-school drama rather than sustained harsh vulgarity.

Amazon reviews mentioning crude

Specific words
  • stupid: 7
  • idiot: 6
  • suck: 4

Profanity Mild

7

Light swearing appears a handful of times in the whole book, mostly when teens argue, quote each other, or react in surprise. It is not constant and stays at mild exclamations rather than heavier language.

Amazon reviews mentioning profanity

Specific words
  • hell: 4
  • damn: 3

Violence Moderate

8

The story includes tense and scary situations such as a struggle against captors, an angry blow to a locker, and references to blood linked to an investigation and a disturbing sight on the floor. Much other wording about blood or hitting is figurative, medical, or family-related rather than graphic injury.

Amazon reviews mentioning violence

Specific words
  • blood: 3
  • punch: 3
  • kick: 1
  • smash: 1

About this book

Jes Delaney can't remember anything before she was found at four, barefoot in the headlights of an old Ford. At fifteen, she has adjusted to moving without notice and never fitting in, but everything changes with her adopted mom's hometown. There Jes falls for her mom's nephew, a love she hides when his betrayal leaves her isolated and driven to unravel the past. After Jes befriends a strange new student, she discovers an unbelievable secret : he's from another planet and searching for a missing girl who just might be her. As Jes will learn, truth comes at a cost, but will she give up love to find out? This book is meant to be read as part of a long series of twists and turns and does not stand alone. The Leftover Girl series is a completed series. Tropes for this series include: found family, friendship, hidden powers, chosen one, forbidden love, coming of age, and belonging. Scroll up to buy now or read the entire series with Kindle Unlimited! "Loved this book. I'm not normally into science fiction but this book was hard to put down." ~ Amazon Customer ★★★★★ "The book has a hint of romance, adventure and friendship and I loved it all through. Can't wait to read the sequel." ~ Amazon Customer ★★★★★ Books In This Series (Completed Series): Book 1: Leftover Girl Book 2: Secrets Return Book 3: Prison of Lies Book 4: Illusion of Truth Book 5: Fate of War Read more