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A lovely, realistic story about friendship and growing up. While I wasn't always convinced that the 1970s setting was necessary, perhaps it enabled the story to exist in a world where there's a little more wild area for these wild girls to wander. They're the kind of girls I don't see enough of in realistic fiction (is it just me, or do they tend to live more in fantasy stories?) where they enjoy the outdoors and live vividly in their imaginations. The fact that they both love to write, and that
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On her website, Pat Murphy says she wrote this book for the 12 year old she once was. I feel like she also wrote it for 12 year old me. I cannot take separate the intense emotion I feel about this story from my response here.
In The Wild Girls, Murphy gives her characters room to step out of their roles and relationships and become complicated, relatable, and provocative people. As Verla instructs the girls in class, there are no villians in The Wild Girls. There are characters, some more frustra ...more
In The Wild Girls, Murphy gives her characters room to step out of their roles and relationships and become complicated, relatable, and provocative people. As Verla instructs the girls in class, there are no villians in The Wild Girls. There are characters, some more frustra ...more
