The Secret Language of Girls

Dowell, Frances O'Roark

ISBN 10: 1416907173 / ISBN 13: 9781416907176

Published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers, New York, NY, 2005

About this Item

Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 256 p. Secret Language of Girls Trilogy. Audience: Children/juvenile. previous owner's name. Clean, tight pages. No bent corners. No remainder mark. CB 97.

Seller Inventory # Alibris.0059926

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Secret Language of Girls
• Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, New York, NY
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1416907173
• ISBN 13: 9781416907176
• Binding: Trade paperback
• Edition: Reprint ed.
• Condition: Very good.

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Synopsis

In the old days, when Kate had no interest in romance, she never cared what other people thought. Now, it appeared, love was turning her into a rotten human being.
Eleven-year-old Kate Faber wishes she could talk to her best friend, Marylin, about this. But Marylin is no longer her best friend. Or is she? Kate and Marylin were always the kind of best friends who lived on the same block for their entire lives, and who agreed on what kinds of boys were worth kissing and who should be invited to their sleepover. The kind of best friends who didn't need words to talk, but who always just knew.
But lately Marylin has started to think that Kate can be a bit babyish. And Kate thinks Marylin is acting like a big snob. Somehow nothing is the same, but secretly Kate and Marylin both wish it could be...

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; Hazard; and, most recently, Then a House Fell on Her Head. She lives with her family in Durham, North Carolina. Connect with Frances online at FrancesDowell.com.