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The Secret Language of Girls
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The Secret Language of Girls Hardcover - 2004

by Frances O'Roark Dowell

Keenly insightful and poignantly hopeful, this novel explores the shifting terrain of the friendship of sixth-graders Kate and Marylin, capturing the awkward dance of two best friends trying to find common ground as they grow up.


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  • Title The Secret Language of Girls
  • Author Frances O'Roark Dowell
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Pages 247
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Atheneum Books for Young Readers, New York
  • Date 2004
  • Features Dust Cover
  • ISBN 9780689844218 / 0689844212
  • Weight 0.66 lbs (0.30 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.76 x 5.26 x 0.94 in (19.71 x 13.36 x 2.39 cm)
  • Ages 08 to 12 years
  • Grade levels 3 - 7
  • Reading level 870
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
    • Topical: Family
    • Topical: Friendship
  • Library of Congress subjects Friendship, Schools
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003012026
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

Media reviews

Citations

  • Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks, 07/01/2004, Page 460
  • Horn Book Magazine, 07/01/2004, Page 450
  • Hornbook Guide to Children, 01/01/2004, Page 378
  • Kirkus Review - Children, 04/01/2004, Page 328
  • Publishers Weekly, 05/31/2004, Page 74
  • School Library Journal, 05/01/2004, Page 146

About the author

Frances O'Roark Dowell is the bestselling and critically acclaimed author of Dovey Coe, which won the Edgar Award and the William Allen White Award; Where I'd Like to Be; The Secret Language of Girls and its sequels The Kind of Friends We Used to Be and The Sound of Your Voice, Only Really Far Away; Chicken Boy; Shooting the Moon, which was awarded the Christopher Award; the Phineas L. MacGuire series; Falling In; The Second Life of Abigail Walker, which received three starred reviews; Anybody Shining; Ten Miles Past Normal; Trouble the Water; the Sam the Man series; The Class; How to Build a Story; and most recently, Hazard. She lives with her family in Durham, North Carolina. Connect with Frances online at FrancesDowell.com.
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