Frances O'Roark Dowell





Frances O'Roark Dowell

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in Berlin, Germany
May 30, 1964

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Frances O'Roark Dowell is an author of middle-grade fiction. Her books have received numerous awards, including an Edgar (Dovey Coe), the William Allan White Award (Dovey Coe), the Christopher Award (Shooting the Moon), the Voya Book Award (Where I'd Like to Be), and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Excellence in Children's Fiction, Honor Book (Shooting the Moon). Dowell has an MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) from the University of Massachusetts. She lives in Durham, NC.


Average rating: 3.68 · 10,486 ratings · 2,108 reviews · 15 distinct works · Similar authors
The Secret Language of Girls
3.63 of 5 stars 3.63 avg rating — 2,446 ratings — published 2004 — 11 editions
Shooting the Moon
3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 1,780 ratings — published 2008 — 8 editions
Ten Miles Past Normal
3.6 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 1,315 ratings — published 2011 — 6 editions
The Kind of Friends We Used...
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 1,242 ratings — published 2009 — 6 editions
Dovey Coe
3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 1,007 ratings — published 2000 — 10 editions
Falling In
3.56 of 5 stars 3.56 avg rating — 880 ratings — published 2010 — 6 editions
Chicken Boy
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3.6 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 720 ratings — published 2005 — 11 editions
Where I'd Like To Be
3.65 of 5 stars 3.65 avg rating — 501 ratings — published 2003 — 11 editions
Phineas L. MacGuire . . . E...
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3.55 of 5 stars 3.55 avg rating — 248 ratings — published 2006 — 6 editions
The Second Life of Abigail ...
3.47 of 5 stars 3.47 avg rating — 218 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions
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“A friend is someone whose face you can see in the dark.”
Frances O'Roark Dowell, The Secret Language of Girls

“Everybody's broken, sweetie. God helps us get put back together.
~Rev. Mayes
The Kind of Friends We Used to Be
Frances O'Roark Dowell

“He was a big talker, someone who liked words for words' sake, the sound of them, the way you can pile them up in your mouth and make a poem if you speill them out the right way.
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Frances O'Roark Dowell, Shooting the Moon

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