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Product Description
It is a early 1970s. Twelve-year-old Joan is certain that she is going to be miserable when her family moves from Connecticut to California. Then she meets a many surprising girl. Sarah prefers to be called ?Fox,? and lives with her author father in a outline residence in a center of a woods. The dual girls start essay their possess stories together, and when one wins initial place in a tyro contest, they find themselves recruited for a summer essay category taught by a equally surprising Verla Volante. The Wild Girls is about friendship, a energy of story, and how entrance of age means anticipating your possess answers?rather than simply holding adults on faith.
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Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #1175811 in Books
- Published on: 2007-10-18
- Released on: 2007-10-18
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 1.06" h x 5.86" w x 8.56" l, .88 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 288 pages
Editorial Reviews
About a Author
Pat Murphy lives in San Francisco, California.
The Wild Girls is a book for writers. It's a book for girls who don't always follow a manners and for girls who play with speckled newts. As a lady who enjoys writing, newts, and occasional rule-breaking, we fell in adore immediately.
Pat Murphy tells a story of dual girls -- a rule-following Joan (aka Newt), who usually changed to California from Connecticut and has always created a kinds of stories she suspicion her clergyman would like, and Sarah (aka Fox), who hangs out throwing rocks in a woods nearby a run-down residence where she lives with her dad, a motorcycle-writer-guy who doesn't fit a picture of any father Joan has ever known. Fox and Newt form a kind of bond that can usually be fake in tip clearings and treehouses, and together, they continue a storms of family mishap and perplexing (or not) to fit in among their peers. More than anything, though, they learn about essay and about a energy of story to assistance us see law -- generally when law is opposite from a story that a grownups are dishing out.
Joan and Sarah call themselves a Wild Girls -- so a pretension -- and by this new clarity of self, they're means to confront questions that always lurked in a shadows before. This book reminds me of Clarissa Pinkola Estes' Women Who Run with a Wolves: Myths and Stories of a Wild Woman Archetype. Women Who Run With a Wolves is non-fiction directed during adult readers, though a suggestion of a dual books feels a same.
There are so many illusory moments in The Wild Girls. My duplicate is riddled with Post-It records imprinting my favorite passages. One of them comes when Azalea, a colorful impression Joan meets during a essay category on a Berkeley campus, offers her a possibility to try walking on stilts.
I hesitated, meditative about it. "I don't know. I'd substantially fall."
Azalea frowned fiercely, jolt her head. "That is a wrong attitude. That's a Failure of a Imagination." When she pronounced that, we listened it in collateral letters. By her tone, we knew that a Failure of a Imagination was a terrible and cowardly thing. "All it takes to travel on stilts is imagination. If we trust that we can travel on stilts, afterwards we can." She looked during me. "What do we think?"
What do we think? we consider we after reading this book, we could travel on stilts...or burst opposite a stream...or...or....just about anything. It's lenient in that way, and that creates it a ideal choice for kids, generally girls who adore to examination and write.
Joan is not a Wild Girl when she moves from Connecticut to California. She's a unequivocally normal arrange of 1970s lady who generally does what is approaching her. Then, erratic in a lawns and woods behind her new home, she meets Fox, who is a unequivocally Wild Girl. Fascinated by Fox and her biker-looking father, Joan names herself Newt, and together, in a woods, she and Fox turn a Wild Girls. One of a Wild Girls' favorite activities is creation adult stories, and when one rather radical story (and a unequivocally surprising open reading) gets them supposed into a essay seminar in Berkley, a girls' novella will take them places inside themselves, any other, and ever their families.
The tract of Wild Girls competence not sound unequivocally exciting, now that we demeanour during it, though in this box a mass is in a details. The attribute of Fox and Newt in a woods, contra in school. The approach a Wild Girls persona allows them to emanate a facade -- and try some-more ideas than they routinely might. The meticulously documented tour of self-discovery. Watching Newt's mom pierce from a card mom-figure to a genuine chairman in her daughter's eyes. The scrutiny of womanlike relationships... Oh, we could go on! It was usually so satisfying!
"A sweet, compelling, coming-of-age story" sounds like a tedious approach to sum it up, though I'll have to leave it there. we wish we to learn how Wild Girls ripens all by yourself! Great for lady readers (this is unequivocally not a boy's book) in that formidable fork now famous as "tweendom" and a GREAT choice for a budding author in your life.
I adore this book.
I don't wish to give any spoilers about a content, and we consider there's adequate information about a book during Pat Murphy's site and here on Amazon for readers to learn about that. The book itself is usually unequivocally good.
Plus, it creates me wish to
1. write more, and
2. also get to know my mom improved around a questions that Joan and Fox learn to ask in a book (unfortunately this is not probable for me, solely around #1).
Pat has created that she wrote a book for a twelve-year-old that she once was, and we feel like she wrote it for a twelve-year-old that we was also. And for a 33-year-old that we am now (and all a ages in between).
I bought an additional duplicate for my 13-year-old niece.
The lady operative during a bookstore where we bought a book (Sorry Amazon, we went for a internal bookstore on this one) told me that she has been watchful for this book "for years!"
Buy new: $13.74
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Customer Rating:
First tagged "girls" by Lisa Myers
see full specs tags: friendship(5), middle school(4), fiction(3), family problems(2), writing(2), girls, role odels, stilts, writing classes, role models, face painting
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Most useful patron reviews
13 of 13 people found a following examination helpful.
By L. K. Messner
The Wild Girls is a book for writers. It's a book for girls who don't always follow a manners and for girls who play with speckled newts. As a lady who enjoys writing, newts, and occasional rule-breaking, we fell in adore immediately.
Pat Murphy tells a story of dual girls -- a rule-following Joan (aka Newt), who usually changed to California from Connecticut and has always created a kinds of stories she suspicion her clergyman would like, and Sarah (aka Fox), who hangs out throwing rocks in a woods nearby a run-down residence where she lives with her dad, a motorcycle-writer-guy who doesn't fit a picture of any father Joan has ever known. Fox and Newt form a kind of bond that can usually be fake in tip clearings and treehouses, and together, they continue a storms of family mishap and perplexing (or not) to fit in among their peers. More than anything, though, they learn about essay and about a energy of story to assistance us see law -- generally when law is opposite from a story that a grownups are dishing out.
Joan and Sarah call themselves a Wild Girls -- so a pretension -- and by this new clarity of self, they're means to confront questions that always lurked in a shadows before. This book reminds me of Clarissa Pinkola Estes' Women Who Run with a Wolves: Myths and Stories of a Wild Woman Archetype. Women Who Run With a Wolves is non-fiction directed during adult readers, though a suggestion of a dual books feels a same.
There are so many illusory moments in The Wild Girls. My duplicate is riddled with Post-It records imprinting my favorite passages. One of them comes when Azalea, a colorful impression Joan meets during a essay category on a Berkeley campus, offers her a possibility to try walking on stilts.
I hesitated, meditative about it. "I don't know. I'd substantially fall."
Azalea frowned fiercely, jolt her head. "That is a wrong attitude. That's a Failure of a Imagination." When she pronounced that, we listened it in collateral letters. By her tone, we knew that a Failure of a Imagination was a terrible and cowardly thing. "All it takes to travel on stilts is imagination. If we trust that we can travel on stilts, afterwards we can." She looked during me. "What do we think?"
What do we think? we consider we after reading this book, we could travel on stilts...or burst opposite a stream...or...or....just about anything. It's lenient in that way, and that creates it a ideal choice for kids, generally girls who adore to examination and write.
5 of 5 people found a following examination helpful.
By Sunny @ a Library
Joan is not a Wild Girl when she moves from Connecticut to California. She's a unequivocally normal arrange of 1970s lady who generally does what is approaching her. Then, erratic in a lawns and woods behind her new home, she meets Fox, who is a unequivocally Wild Girl. Fascinated by Fox and her biker-looking father, Joan names herself Newt, and together, in a woods, she and Fox turn a Wild Girls. One of a Wild Girls' favorite activities is creation adult stories, and when one rather radical story (and a unequivocally surprising open reading) gets them supposed into a essay seminar in Berkley, a girls' novella will take them places inside themselves, any other, and ever their families.
The tract of Wild Girls competence not sound unequivocally exciting, now that we demeanour during it, though in this box a mass is in a details. The attribute of Fox and Newt in a woods, contra in school. The approach a Wild Girls persona allows them to emanate a facade -- and try some-more ideas than they routinely might. The meticulously documented tour of self-discovery. Watching Newt's mom pierce from a card mom-figure to a genuine chairman in her daughter's eyes. The scrutiny of womanlike relationships... Oh, we could go on! It was usually so satisfying!
"A sweet, compelling, coming-of-age story" sounds like a tedious approach to sum it up, though I'll have to leave it there. we wish we to learn how Wild Girls ripens all by yourself! Great for lady readers (this is unequivocally not a boy's book) in that formidable fork now famous as "tweendom" and a GREAT choice for a budding author in your life.
6 of 7 people found a following examination helpful.
By S. Pederson
I adore this book.
I don't wish to give any spoilers about a content, and we consider there's adequate information about a book during Pat Murphy's site and here on Amazon for readers to learn about that. The book itself is usually unequivocally good.
Plus, it creates me wish to
1. write more, and
2. also get to know my mom improved around a questions that Joan and Fox learn to ask in a book (unfortunately this is not probable for me, solely around #1).
Pat has created that she wrote a book for a twelve-year-old that she once was, and we feel like she wrote it for a twelve-year-old that we was also. And for a 33-year-old that we am now (and all a ages in between).
I bought an additional duplicate for my 13-year-old niece.
The lady operative during a bookstore where we bought a book (Sorry Amazon, we went for a internal bookstore on this one) told me that she has been watchful for this book "for years!"
Buy new: $13.74
68 used and new from $0.01
Customer Rating:
First tagged "girls" by Lisa Myers
see full specs tags: friendship(5), middle school(4), fiction(3), family problems(2), writing(2), girls, role odels, stilts, writing classes, role models, face painting
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