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The Wild Girls by Pat Murphy
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The Wild Girls

by Pat Murphy

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A pretty good book, I guess. My main problem with it would be the amount of pages. It's too long for the plot. I'm not saying it's a huge book-it's not. It's quite thin actually. I just think the plot could have ended half way through the book but instead, it kept going. ( )
  smaga | Aug 2, 2009 |
  highlandreviews | Jan 29, 2009 |
In 1972 California, new-comer twelve-year-old Joan meets Sarah and they become fast friends. They learn about writing, each other, and their families while taking a Summer writing class at University of Califiornia, Berkeley. This title could be an excellent read-aloud. Teachers may want to have their students work along with Joan and Sarah since many of the writing class assignments are included in the text. ( )
  librariankristin | Sep 2, 2008 |
Two very different girls befriend and learn from one another during a summer in California in the 1970's.
  juliepickett | Jul 31, 2008 |
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It is the early 1970s. Twelve-year-old Joan is sure that she is going to be miserable when her family moves from Connecticut to California. Then she meets a most unusual girl. Sarah prefers to be called “Fox,” and lives with her author dad in a rundown house in the middle of the woods. The two girls start writing their own stories together, and when one wins first place in a student contest, they find themselves recruited for a summer writing class taught by the equally unusual Verla Volante. The Wild Girls is about friendship, the power of story, and how coming of age means finding your own answers—rather than simply taking adults on faith.

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