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Good Girlz #3
With Friends Like These
The third book in an exciting and inspiring new series from national bestselling author ReShonda Tate Billingsley
Only one girl will be chosen. ...
In the year since Camille, Alexis, Jasmine, and Angel joined Rachel Jackson's church youth group, the four best friends have bonded over boys, pitched in on community projects, and shared their deepest secrets. There's nothing they don't know about each other -- or is there? When a special guest arrives at Rachel's group and announces auditions for a television talk show, the girls will come to know a side of each other they never knew existed. And they may not like what they see.
Will the four friends become enemies?
The race to find the perfect host for KRCP's Teen Talks is heating up -- the competition is fierce, and so are the lies the girlfriends tell about each other in order to win the coveted spot. But more painful than any lies they can concoct is the cold, hard none of them will reach their ultimate dreams if cutting each other down is how they choose to get ahead. Is winning a place in the spotlight worth losing their friendship?
Includes a reader's group guide!
Be sure to read the previous novels in ReShonda Tate Billingsley's fresh and fun series that looks at the Ten Commandments in a whole new Nothing But Drama and Blessings in Disguise -- now available!
ReShonda Tate Billingsley is a general assignment reporter for KRIV-TV, the Fox affiliate in Houston, Texas. She is the author of the nonfiction book Help! I've Turned Into My Mother! and three previous adult My Brother's Keeper , for which she received the prestigious Gold Pen Award for Best New Author from the Black Writer's Alliance and the Nova Lee Nation Award from the Greater Dallas Writing Association; the national bestseller Let the Church Say Amen , chosen for Library Journal's Best of 2004 list for Christian fiction; and I Know I've Been Changed , a Main Selection of the Black Expressions Book Club. Her previous Christian teen novels are Nothing But Drama and Blessings in Disguise , both available from Pocket Books. She is also a contributor to the story anthology Have a Little Faith . Visit her website at www.reshondatatebillingsley.com.
Only one girl will be chosen. ...
In the year since Camille, Alexis, Jasmine, and Angel joined Rachel Jackson's church youth group, the four best friends have bonded over boys, pitched in on community projects, and shared their deepest secrets. There's nothing they don't know about each other -- or is there? When a special guest arrives at Rachel's group and announces auditions for a television talk show, the girls will come to know a side of each other they never knew existed. And they may not like what they see.
Will the four friends become enemies?
The race to find the perfect host for KRCP's Teen Talks is heating up -- the competition is fierce, and so are the lies the girlfriends tell about each other in order to win the coveted spot. But more painful than any lies they can concoct is the cold, hard none of them will reach their ultimate dreams if cutting each other down is how they choose to get ahead. Is winning a place in the spotlight worth losing their friendship?
Includes a reader's group guide!
Be sure to read the previous novels in ReShonda Tate Billingsley's fresh and fun series that looks at the Ten Commandments in a whole new Nothing But Drama and Blessings in Disguise -- now available!
ReShonda Tate Billingsley is a general assignment reporter for KRIV-TV, the Fox affiliate in Houston, Texas. She is the author of the nonfiction book Help! I've Turned Into My Mother! and three previous adult My Brother's Keeper , for which she received the prestigious Gold Pen Award for Best New Author from the Black Writer's Alliance and the Nova Lee Nation Award from the Greater Dallas Writing Association; the national bestseller Let the Church Say Amen , chosen for Library Journal's Best of 2004 list for Christian fiction; and I Know I've Been Changed , a Main Selection of the Black Expressions Book Club. Her previous Christian teen novels are Nothing But Drama and Blessings in Disguise , both available from Pocket Books. She is also a contributor to the story anthology Have a Little Faith . Visit her website at www.reshondatatebillingsley.com.
256 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2007
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ReShonda Tate Billingsley
63 books1,481 followersReShonda Tate Billingsley is a general assignment reporter for KRIV-TV, the Fox affiliate in Houston, Texas. She is the author of the nonfiction book Help! I've Turned Into My Mother! and three previous adult novels: My Brother's Keeper, for which she received the prestigious Gold Pen Award for Best New Author from the Black Writer's Alliance and the Nova Lee Nation Award from the Greater Dallas Writing Association; the national bestseller Let the Church Say Amen, chosen for Library Journal's Best of 2004 list for Christian fiction; and I Know I've Been Changed, a Main Selection of the Black Expressions Book Club.
Her previous Christian teen novels are Nothing But Drama and Blessings in Disguise, both available from Pocket Books.
She is also a contributor to the story anthology Have a Little Faith.
Her previous Christian teen novels are Nothing But Drama and Blessings in Disguise, both available from Pocket Books.
She is also a contributor to the story anthology Have a Little Faith.
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May 26, 2021
In With Friends like these we are introduced to a group of 4 girls - Camille, Alexis, Angel and Jasmine . They are part of a reformed behaviour christian group called "Good Girlz" . All four of them have been in trouble one time or another with the law and just have each other for support. However , this is about to change as the girls have a chance to audition for the chance to be a hostess of a new talkback Teen Show .
It starts out as a fun activity , that soon turns sour cherries as we see each girl competing for her chance at stardom and when you add in the factor that they each have a shady past , the things that they can do become ten times worst. If this competition isn't enough to tear them apart, then what's happening in all of their lives are and what makes it worst is they soon won't have anybody to turn too. From Camille , who has met a lovely white guy only to have her and his parents worrying about the racial aspect of their relationship - he's white and comes from a wealthy family and she's black and poor and to top it off her ex-boyfriend Kevin has been released from Jail and is after Camille. Alexis has fallen head over heels , in love with Jasmine's brother only to have him cheat on her with his ex-girlfriend and just to add salt to her wound , her parents are getting a divorce. Jasmine is failing her classes and if she can't keep up her grades , its bye-bye Good Girlz , so in order to stay she had better get cracking and bring those test scores up. Last but not least, Angel -the only one with a baby in the group , Angel works hard to support it but can she stay on the straight and narrow or will she succumb to temptation and revert to her old habits ?.
With Friends like These , can you go wrong or can they keep you straight ?
A good urban christian fiction which shows that not all Christians have had an easy life and that we all make mistakes.
It starts out as a fun activity , that soon turns sour cherries as we see each girl competing for her chance at stardom and when you add in the factor that they each have a shady past , the things that they can do become ten times worst. If this competition isn't enough to tear them apart, then what's happening in all of their lives are and what makes it worst is they soon won't have anybody to turn too. From Camille , who has met a lovely white guy only to have her and his parents worrying about the racial aspect of their relationship - he's white and comes from a wealthy family and she's black and poor and to top it off her ex-boyfriend Kevin has been released from Jail and is after Camille. Alexis has fallen head over heels , in love with Jasmine's brother only to have him cheat on her with his ex-girlfriend and just to add salt to her wound , her parents are getting a divorce. Jasmine is failing her classes and if she can't keep up her grades , its bye-bye Good Girlz , so in order to stay she had better get cracking and bring those test scores up. Last but not least, Angel -the only one with a baby in the group , Angel works hard to support it but can she stay on the straight and narrow or will she succumb to temptation and revert to her old habits ?.
With Friends like These , can you go wrong or can they keep you straight ?
A good urban christian fiction which shows that not all Christians have had an easy life and that we all make mistakes.
March 16, 2022
As usual I am enjoying this series. I felt towards the end it was rushed trying to end the book overall.
It was nice to finally see some more dialogue with Alexis and her parents.
I wonder if there will be anymore interactions with Jasmine and her dad?
It was nice to finally see some more dialogue with Alexis and her parents.
I wonder if there will be anymore interactions with Jasmine and her dad?
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October 15, 2012I am currently reading 'With Friends Like These (Good Girlz, #3) by Reshonda Tate Billingsley. Her writing is very similar to Ni-Ni Simone who happens to be my favorite author. So far I find the book very relatable to my own life. I'm a teenager, avid churchgoer, and media socialite like that of Camille, Angel, Alexis and Jasmine. They are the main characters. Each of them come from different backgrounds yet they all remain friends regardless of the things they've been through. They all joined a girls youth group program to help them out for a number of reasons.
June 27, 2016
3 1/2 Stars. This was an ok book. The plot was decent and the message good, but I just could not get into the story until around page 40. Even after that, I had no strong emotional reactions to the plot making for a bland reading experience. And although I could sympathize with the characters at times, I just could not connect with them.
November 14, 2007
Another part to the Drama Series
August 20, 2009
another book testing their friendship but they always pull through...dont they
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October 8, 2010
I think this was a good book love the actions
March 3, 2016
review to come
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