Not Like Other Girls: Chapters 50–Epilogue

by Meredith Adamo
In this mystery novel, a high school senior searches for her missing ex-best friend and comes face-to-face with her own trauma in the process.


Here are links to our lists for the book: Chapter 1-4, Chapter 5-8, Chapter 9-13, Chapter 14-17, Chapter 18-22, Chapter 23-29, Chapter 30-34, Chapter 35-42, Chapter 43-49, Chapter 50-Epilogue

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  1. rife
    excessively abundant
    “It’s a big deal —the top magnet school in the city is rife with academic fraud, led by their valedictorian and star athlete. If this was supposed to get her into NYU, then what was she waiting for?”
  2. reconcile
    come to terms
    “She’d been at her dad’s place. He was on a business trip, so he hadn’t been expecting her. There was lingerie in the laundry room. I don’t think Maddie expected—wanted—her parents to reconcile, but her dad had told her that he and his girlfriend broke up. He lied.”
  3. withdrawal
    the act of taking out money or other capital
    She says, “Maddie started to snoop. To see what else he’d lied about. He’d left out this packet on how to prepare a petition for divorce, and a list of questions for his financial advisor about nonqualified withdrawals from a 529 plan.”
  4. devise
    arrange by systematic planning and united effort
    Later, Hudson and I go to my house, where we make out and devise our plan of attack.
  5. nape
    the back side of the neck
    I scratch the nape of his neck, whisper, “So, we’ll take it to Lund.”
  6. irrefutable
    impossible to deny or disprove
    Irrefutable proof that something happened between us.
  7. unreliable
    not worthy of trust
    “You’re making me an unreliable narrator?”
  8. plead
    appeal or request earnestly
    “April, you have to help us here,” Miles pleads.
  9. audacity
    aggressive or outright boldness
    He has the audacity to look confused.
  10. untamed
    wild, free, and not controlled or touched by humans
    The untamed bedhead, the smattering of freckles, the impish way he’d grin before we got into trouble.
  11. grovel
    show submission or fear
    That was the deal: I’d be gone for two days, then I’d come back and grovel and say how sorry I am for frightening everyone when all I wanted was attention, because that’s the trouble with girls like me.
  12. haphazardly
    in a random manner
    Her white Prius is haphazardly parked in the driveway, the front bumper destroyed, streaked with red paint.
  13. preferably
    more readily or willingly
    Preferably someone who could write.
  14. retelling
    a new version or adaptation of a story
    In each retelling, Maddie vaguely mentions that, three weeks after she arrived, she struck out on her own in New York.
  15. swerve
    turn sharply; change direction abruptly
    Maybe it was the black ice or the sirens approaching uphill or his lightheadedness that made Miles swerve into those trees.
  16. decelerate
    lose velocity; move more slowly
    He never decelerated.
  17. misdemeanor
    a crime less serious than a felony
    Like Ben Sulkin, who lost his baseball scholarship to Vanderbilt and got a misdemeanor assault charge for pushing Trey Gardner off his deck.
  18. brunt
    the main part, especially of a force or shock
    If Miles were alive, he’d bear the brunt of the charges (kidnapping, unlawful imprisonment).
  19. unsettle
    cause to feel nervous, anxious, or upset
    Those words—maybe we have to get rid of her—unsettled him, and when Miles ditched school, Cody lost it.
  20. backlash
    an adverse reaction to some political or social occurrence
    The backlash was immediate—the privileged athlete who cheated because he could—but it wasn’t exactly wrong, either.
  21. corroborate
    support with evidence or authority or make more certain
    Except Kathleen corroborated it.
  22. stampede
    run away in a headlong rush
    I’m pulling him down to kiss me when there’s a clang from outside, so sudden that Bay Leaf stampedes upstairs.
  23. appeal
    challenge, as a decision
    “I’m really, really good. I appealed my decision to NYU. I got in.”
  24. adamant
    impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, or reason
    “Me and Cody were at his car, and Cody flipped. He was adamant we couldn’t do it. That it was too risky since he shut you up once before,” she says.
  25. mundane
    found in the ordinary course of events
    The things I loved most about her were mundane: sitting on her couch, eating boxed macaroni and cheese from the pan, taking walks, talking.
Created on Wed Mar 26 06:54:38 EDT 2025 (updated Thu Mar 27 04:26:49 EDT 2025)

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