The Girls I’ve Been by Tess Sharpe is a teenage-girl biography focusing on a young lady named Nora who grows up with her mother, a criminal. Finally, when they get her roused and gassed in a bank robbery distress situation, she has no other option except to do what she does for her friends, although previously she was assumed to have no skills at all. A high-stressed written novel of survival with features of psychological horrors and character development.