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    <body><![CDATA[Spot-on depiction of middle school social politics -- this little number is something I wish I could have had when I was twelve.<br/><br/>In the predecessor to this book (<em>The Secret Language of Girls</em>, which I haven't read), best friends Marylin and Kate grow apart when Marylin joins the cheerleadi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62277402">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my favorite things about this book was the way Rhetta's parents were portrayed. Reverend and Mrs. Mayes were kind, loving, accepting, and fun. You don't often see that kind of portrayal of Christians in literature these days. It was nice. My favorite quote from the book came from Rhetta's dad...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56166070">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Actually a two an a half star book but whatever. In the sequel to <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/490980.The_Secret_Language_of_Girls" title="The Secret Language of Girls by Frances O'Roark Dowell">the secret language of girls</a> Marilyn and Kate are up to their old shenanigans. Basically read the first book and you'll have read the second. Kate is the same old same old. Marilyn is the same old same old. A bunch of lame scenes that...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56778228">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/>In this sequel to The Secret Language of Girls, Kate and Marylin have started 7th grade.  At first this seems to be Kate’s story – feeling like the odd girl out at Marylin’s cheerleader-and-ballplayer-filled party, Kate realizes that she wants to be different.  Specifically, she longs to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45943984">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Reviewed by Sally Kruger aka &quot;Readingjunky&quot; for TeensReadToo.com<br/><br/>The friendship adventures of Kate and Marylin continue in THE KIND OF FRIENDS WE USED TO BE. The girls were in sixth grade in THE SECRET LANGUAGE OF GIRLS, and now they are in seventh. <br/><br/>Marylin continues...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45502527">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Frances O'Roark Dowell aptly captures the changing friendships and social structures of middle school girls in this lovely story. We follow Kate, as she develops her girl guitar player style, her best childhood friend Marylin, who is navigating the rocky swells of cheerleading mores and newly divorc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48523901">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Nov 22 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this because I saw Amanda's review on goodreads!  It was a good book.  I liked reading about how the characters were developing their own interests and identities but still trying to be friends with each other.  I thought that was much more mature than I was in 7th grade.<br/><br/>The end o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78742249">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[YES for our library.<br/><br/>&quot;Could shoes really change a person's life? She was beginning to think they could.&quot;<br/><br/>There is nothing wrong with a book about a girl who wants to play guitar... who wants to be true to herself... who wants people to reflect their values rather than...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62131304">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[She has amazing turns of phrase. Great imagery, very tangible references. Good use of humor that doesn't condescend. This book features long-time friends entering seventh grade, heading in clearly opposite directions. She makes each charming in her own way and never severs the ties between them. Thi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55206979">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Small deviants aside, little kids are friendly folk. Catch `em young enough and you can turn them into friends if they both like making chocolate chip cookies and having sleepovers. They are discerning, but friendship often trumps their differences . . . for a time. Then puberty appears on the horiz...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46910400">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was disappointed since I'm used to getting more substance from Dowell. This was an OK book...basically adolescent chic lit. The story was the same old ...2 girls who've been friends from childhood grow apart  in adolescence as their personalities diverge...one is the cheerleader type and the other...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61554894">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've had a run of great books lately. This one took a couple hours and I found out when I finished that it was the sequel to the first book of hers I read which i also loved, but don't remember at all. (I placed a hold on it already to reread) Actually I love all her books. The characters are comple...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47171609">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I kind of wish this book had existed when I was in 7th grade, but at least I can still read it now. I never read the first one, but this one stood on its own perfectly. I loved Kate almost immediately and Marylin definitely grew on me as the book progressed - they were very real characters that I wa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51028198">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I actually liked this better than the first book, &quot;The Secret Language of Girls&quot;. Nice exploration of what it is like to fall out of step with a best friend during those middle school years. Also, nice to have realistic fiction for this age group that is not over the top edgy or a bed of r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49977179">more...</a>]]></body>
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