Purity

By Jackson Pearce

Subjects: Father-daughter relationship, Virginity, Values, fiction, Fathers and daughters, Fathers and daughters, fiction, Coming of age, Fiction, Children's fiction, Juvenile fiction, Purity (Ethics)

Description: Sixteen-year-old Shelby finds it difficult to balance her mother's dying request to live a life without restraint with her father's plans for his "little princess," which include attending a traditional father-daughter dance that culminates with a ceremonial vow to live "whole, pure lives."