false 410127 6 It is the early 1970s. Twelve-year-old Joan is sure that she is going to be miserable when her family moves from Connecticut to California. Then she meets a most unusual girl. Sarah prefers to be called &#147;Fox,&#148; and lives with her author dad in a rundown house in the middle of the woods. The two girls start writing their own stories together, and when one wins first place in a student contest, they find themselves recruited for a summer writing class taught by the equally unusual Verla Volante. <i>The Wild Girls</i> is about friendship, the power of story, and how coming of age means finding your own answers&#151;rather than simply taking adults on faith. 399412 18 10 2007 The Wild Girls total:276|5:116|4:118|3:32|2:10|1:0| 276 1168 458 108 5628697 0142412457 9780142412459 46 27 4.23 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5628697.The_Wild_Girls 0 0 false Mon Nov 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 02 04:52:07 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 02 04:56:31 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5628697 0142412457 9780142412459 46 27 4.23 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5628697.The_Wild_Girls 4 0 false Mon Sep 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 05 09:43:10 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 07 18:53:45 -0700 2009 These ...more...]]> 410127 067006226X 9780670062263 230 81 4.23 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/410127.The_Wild_Girls 5 1 false Wed Nov 05 17:25:32 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 05 17:28:37 -0800 2008 Joan, or as she sometimes is call, Newt, moves to a new place where she is sure she will hate. But once there, she goes for a walk in the forest and meets a girl. The Queen of the Foxes, or just plain Fox. Fox is new, adventures and exiting, opening up a new world f...more...]]> 410127 067006226X 9780670062263 230 81 4.23 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/410127.The_Wild_Girls 4 0 false Thu Sep 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 28 15:36:55 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 03 04:16:01 -0700 2009 more...]]> 410127 067006226X 9780670062263 230 81 4.23 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/410127.The_Wild_Girls 5 0 false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jan 22 20:47:03 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 30 10:00:39 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5628697 0142412457 9780142412459 46 27 4.23 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5628697.The_Wild_Girls 5 0 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 16 13:27:22 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 16 13:34:02 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5628697 0142412457 9780142412459 46 27 4.23 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5628697.The_Wild_Girls 5 0 false Sun Jun 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 22 12:23:28 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 22 12:38:31 -0700 2009 more...]]> 410127 067006226X 9780670062263 230 81 4.23 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/410127.The_Wild_Girls 0 0 false Wed Mar 25 08:31:12 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 30 12:27:49 -0700 2009
It is the early 1970s. Twelve-year-old Joan is sure that she is going to be miserable when her family moves from Connecticut to California. Then she meets a most unusual girl. Sarah prefers to be called “Fox,” and lives with her author dad in...more...]]> 5628697 0142412457 9780142412459 46 27 4.23 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5628697.The_Wild_Girls 5 0 false Tue Apr 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 30 18:19:25 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 30 18:37:24 -0700 2009 It is wonderfully real in its depiction of children (friends "fox" and "Newt" who are not members of the glamor patrol) and their lives (in the style of Andrew Clements only differently...more deeply, less humorous!).
One charact...more...]]> 5628697 0142412457 9780142412459 46 27 4.23 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5628697.The_Wild_Girls 4 0 false Fri Jul 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 29 22:03:19 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 20:17:49 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5628697 0142412457 9780142412459 46 27 4.23 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5628697.The_Wild_Girls 5 1 false Tue Feb 17 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 16 17:31:22 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 09 16:40:35 -0700 2009 The Wild Girls is an amazing novel. Joan, later to be called Newt, has just moved from Conneticut to Danneville, California. She soon meets a strange, independent girl Sarah, called Fox by friends and family. The two girls become very close. Fox lives with her dad because her mom ran away when she w...more...]]> 5628697 0142412457 9780142412459 46 27 4.23 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5628697.The_Wild_Girls 5 0 false Wed Oct 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 18 12:37:03 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 18 12:42:22 -0700 2009
I loved the story and how central the writing class was to the book. The exercises were interesting and it was fun to read about how all the people in the writing class were loose nuts.

Fox and Newt were great characters and I liked r...more...]]> 5628697 0142412457 9780142412459 46 27 4.23 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5628697.The_Wild_Girls 4 0 false Mon Nov 23 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 23 05:50:52 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 23 05:50:52 -0800 2009
I really liked it. It reminded me of Wild Things by Clay Carmichael because one of the main characters is a girl who has lost her mothe...more...]]> 410127 067006226X 9780670062263 230 81 4.23 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/410127.The_Wild_Girls 5 0 false Mon Aug 18 13:22:16 -0700 2008 Fri Nov 14 13:27:58 -0800 2008
Pat Murphy tells the story of two girls -- the rule-follo...more...]]> 410127 067006226X 9780670062263 230 81 4.23 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/410127.The_Wild_Girls 2 0 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 13 09:41:17 -0800 2007 Thu Dec 13 09:41:17 -0800 2007
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When Joan and her family move from Connecticut to California in 1972, she hates everything at first. Then, while exploring the neighborhood (and avoiding helping her mother unpack) she meets a girl...more...]]> 5628697 0142412457 9780142412459 46 27 4.23 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5628697.The_Wild_Girls 4 0 false Wed Dec 24 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 29 13:04:04 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 29 13:08:05 -0800 2008 more...]]> 410127 067006226X 9780670062263 230 81 4.23 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/410127.The_Wild_Girls 5 0 false Sat Nov 22 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 23 10:12:49 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 23 10:17:49 -0800 2008
Incredible. Give this book to aspiring writers. heck, published writers. to middle grade girls and their mothers. to "loose nuts." to kids with different kinds of families. to girls who need to use war paint to d...more...]]> 410127 067006226X 9780670062263 230 81 4.23 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/410127.The_Wild_Girls 4 0 false Mon Nov 30 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 30 10:33:01 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 30 11:12:24 -0800 2009 1 more...]]> 410127 067006226X 9780670062263 230 81 4.23 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/410127.The_Wild_Girls 4 0 false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 15 02:51:38 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 15 02:55:44 -0800 2008 more...]]> 410127 067006226X 9780670062263 230 81 4.23 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/410127.The_Wild_Girls 3 0 false Wed Dec 17 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 12 17:25:03 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 17 22:33:33 -0800 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=5628697