The Wild Girls
By Pat Murphy
(Viking Juvenile, Hardcover, 9780670062263, 304pp.)
Publication Date: October 2007
Other Editions of This Title: eBook, Paperback (November 2008), Prebound (November 2008)
Categories: Historical - United States - 20th Century, Social Issues - Adolescence
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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.
Pat Murphy lives in San Francisco, California.
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