The Wild Girls

The Wild Girls - Paperback

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The Wild Girls - Paperback

The Wild Girls - Paperback

by Pat Murphy
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Book Overview

by Pat Murphy (Author)

WINNER OF THE CHRISTOPHER AWARD - A heartwarming coming-of-age tale that explores the journey of self-discovery that comes with growing up.

"A terrific mix of imagination, insight, character inventiveness and kindness create the kind of read that nourishes young minds and hearts."--Kirkus Reviews

"A fantastic book. . . . Pat Murphy's wonderful girls are as real and as lovable as characters get."--Karen Joy Fowler, author of The Jane Austen Book Club

Twelve-year-old Joan is sure that she is going to be miserable in her new home. Then she meets a kindred spirit: Sarah, who prefers to be called "Fox" and who lives with her writer father in a rundown house in the middle of the woods.

Joan and Sarah--Newt and Fox--spend all their spare time outside, talking and fooling around, and soon start writing stories together. When they win first place in a student fiction contest, they're recruited for a prestigious summer writing class taught by a free spirit named Verla Volante.

The Wild Girls is a stunning novel about friendship, the power of story, and how coming of age means finding your own answers--rather than simply taking adults on faith.

Author Biography

Pat Murphy lives in San Francisco, California.

Number of Pages: 304
Dimensions: 0.81 x 8.2 x 5.5 IN
Publication Date: November 01, 2008
Accelerated Reader:
Quiz Name: Wild Girls
Interest Level: Middle Grades, 4-8
Reading Level: 4.1
Point Value: 9
ISBN9780142412459
Author Pat Murphy
PublisherPenguin Young Readers Group
GenreYoung adult
FormatPaperback
PublishedNovember 2008
LanguageENG- English
Pages304
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceKids and Teens & young adults
Print SizeStandard Print

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The Wild Girls

The Wild Girls - Paperback

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About Pat Murphy

Pat Murphy is an acclaimed author of science fiction, fantasy, and science books for adults, teens, and children. She has received the Nebula Award for The Falling Woman, the Nebula, Theodore Sturgeon Memorial, and Isaac Asimov's SF Magazine Readers Awards for Rachel in Love, the World Fantasy Award for Bones, and the Christopher Award for The Wild Girls. Murphy has worked as a writer at a variety of idiosyncratic institutions, including the Exploratorium science museum and Klutz Press (the Complete Klutz series). She was the Activity Guru for the ed-tech startup Mystery Science and the Marketing Director for the Crucible, a school of fire arts. Murphy currently works full time as a science fiction and fantasy author in Boulder City, Nevada, in the Mojave Desert, where she is frequently visited by rabbits, quail, and the occasional coyote.

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