Jennifer Weiner is back with a book about a teenage daughter's reaction to a scandalous book her mother wrote years earlier, which happens to be very much like the book Weiner wrote in 2001, called Good in Bed. Certain Girls is told in the voices of Candace Shapiro, the heroine of Good in Bed, and her daughter, Joy, a 13-year-old on the cusp of young adulthood.

Rachel Botchan and Julie Dretzin are ideal in their roles, and their voices give a nice bite to Mom's sardonicism and Joy's disillusionment. What we have here is an After-School Special. Nonetheless, it makes a good mother-daughter summer listen.