A Secret Friend
by Marilyn Sachs
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Ten-year-old Jessica loses her best friend, and in struggling to win her back finds out some important things about friendship.Tags
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Jessica is 10, and her best friend for the past five years, Wendy, no longer wants to be her friend. Jessica is hurt, and wants to still be friends with Wendy, despite Wendy's open mockery and cruelty.
But then the notes begin to show up, addressed to Jessica, and signed "ASF", A Secret Friend...
On the surface this appears to be standard fare, but the author knows children well, turning this from a run-of-the-mill children's story into something much better.
But then the notes begin to show up, addressed to Jessica, and signed "ASF", A Secret Friend...
On the surface this appears to be standard fare, but the author knows children well, turning this from a run-of-the-mill children's story into something much better.
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Marilyn Sachs was born Marilyn Stickle in the Bronx, New York on December 18, 1927. She graduated from Hunter College in 1949 and became a children's librarian trainee at the Brooklyn Public Library. She worked there for a decade while earning her master's of library science degree at Columbia University. She later worked part-time at the San show more Francisco Public Library before becoming a full-time author for middle grade and young adult readers in 1968. Her first novel, Amy Moves In, was published in 1964. Her other books included Veronica Ganz, The Bears' House, The Fat Girl, A Pocket Full of Seeds, and Lost in America. She was a co-editor with Ann Durell of the anthology The Big Book for Peace, which provided proceeds to peace organizations. She died on December 28, 2016 at the age of 89. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- A Secret Friend
- Original publication date
- 1978
- People/Characters
- Jessica Freeman
- Dedication
- Remembering all the friendships my family and I made there, this book is affectionately dedicated to the students and staff, past and present, of Cabrillo School, San Francisco.
- First words
- The note lay folded on Jessica Freeman's seat when her class came back from gym.
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- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, Children's Books, Kids
- DDC/MDS
- 813.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PZ7 .S1187 .S — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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- Languages
- English, Swedish
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- 5
- ASINs
- 2
