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31st out of 77 books
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The Secret Life of Amanda K. Woods
by
Ann Cameron
Eleven-year-old Amanda Woods is discovering that the person other people think she is and the person she really is are not the same.
Paperback, 208 pages
Published
September 13th 1999
by Puffin
(first published April 30th 1998)
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I was at my mother's old house in Jamaica one summer when I found this in some of the old boxes that were lying around. Besides an old issue of Cosmopolitan and a huge ass book on American history, this was the only thing I read over the two months I was there (there was no television set or radio to use because of the electricity on the fritz). This was also the book that made me want to become a writer, so this holds a very special place in my heart.
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This story takes place in rural Wisconsin during the 1950s. Amanda and her family live on a lake outside town and their only neighbors have just moved away. This is a big loss for Amanda as she has lost her best and only friend. Amanda also has difficulties at home. Her mother is a perfectionist and Amanda does not measure up to her older sister Margaret. The story follows Amanda over the course of the fifth grade and things get better for as the year goes by. This is the kind of book that is mo...more
I originally bought this novel out of a school book order when I was around Amanda's age - probably eleven. I find myself in the pages now just as I did then - the gains and losses of friendships, attempting to live up to the expectations of others, questions of conformity, the struggle to connect with family members, etc. I love Amanda for both her childishness and her drive to grow into the person she wishes to be.
I loved this book, I loved Amanda and her mom. Each and every character had thier own problem. Amanda was late growing up. Her dad doesn't like talking, her mom wanted everyone to be as perfect as her, and her sister had wierd ways of dealing with people. It was a great book. But I have to say my favorite part is when her father is talking to her mother and said he wants to raise her. It was so sweet, what he said. It warmed my heart.
Bought this book when I was younger and never read it. Finally came across it and decided to give it a go. Cute story with a funny perspective of an adult looking into the mind of a little girl surrounded by life that she doesn't quite understand.
Set in the 50's Amanda has always been second best behind her sister Margaret. Through a variety of situations she grows to discover who she really is.
I didn't care for this at all.
I didn't care for this at all.
This is a nice exploration of the various subtleties embedded within relationships. No interpersonal tie is ever simple -- there are always tensions beneath, and above, the surface.
It was a nice story about qrowinq up...but i quess it wasn't my type of book. For people who are lookinq for a nice and sweet story to read,i say Read This!
When I read it, I was in elementary school. I remember the beginning was kind of slow, none the less it was a good story and I enjoyed it.
I like this story because of how Amanda does not think that she is suprerior to her sister and that she deserved a better sister. Amanda had a pen pal which was cool because when I was youngr I had a pen pal.
Recommended by Lauuren Tarshis (Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree) who says there's not one extra word in this whole book.
it is about this girl who had a friend who moved away. then, the girl trys to be inpendent and strong
this was a very touching book that i felt somehow (idk so dont ask) connected to me.
I loved it. One of my favorite books when I was little!!
this book is both funny especially Amanda's sister Margaret
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i like it. sometimes her mother is very rude.
Not really sure why it had to be set in the 1950's, but it's still a sweet little tale of growing up.
This was one of the best books that I have ever read! It was detailed, and descriptive, I really love this author!.
Clover. :)
BEST BOOK EVER!!!!
Fun read.
ok-ish
I read this at school over and over, but only because other books could have been a lot worse. There really is no plot, so we're disregarding the blurb right now. It's pretty boring, and sometimes Amanda says something creative, and she leaves it at that, so you don't get it and it feels disjointed. It's way too realistic too, so if you love fiction, just don't read it.
this is another book that taught me about friendship, but in a sad way because in the story this girl friend moved away and they never got to see each other again.So when they were both grown they saw each other again but the boy did not reconize his friend.
At the time i read this book i was a little younger then amanda and i felt like we had some same charactersistics and just the things that she dose in the story wear very fasnating i really enjoyed this book.
i read this book after i finished the harry potter series... i needed an easy read to take my mind off of harry potter! overall, a pretty good book.
I didn't find the plot interesting enough to keep reading, or maybe I just didn't understand it, but in the end, I put it back in my class library.
i think i read this.... the cover seems familiar.....i totally forget what it was about but it involved a beach and a house, i think.
I remember reading this as a kid and I recently reread it. 3 stars for the nostalgia. And the story isn't too bad either.
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Ann Cameron grew up in Wisconsin. Today, she and her husband live in Guatemala. From her house she can see a waterfall and three volcanoes. Ann Cameron has been a teacher and an editor as well as a writer.
She says that writing is hardest for her at the beginning of a book. To get started, she follows this important rule for writing: "Apply seat of pants to bottom of chair."
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She says that writing is hardest for her at the beginning of a book. To get started, she follows this important rule for writing: "Apply seat of pants to bottom of chair."
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