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    The Wild Girls

    Written by Pat Murphy

    Narrated by Coleen Marlo

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    About this audiobook

    Twelve-year-old Joan is sure that she is going to hate her new home-but almost right away she finds a kindred spirit.

    "You're lucky I didn't just start throwing rocks at you. I can hide in the trees and nail a kid with a rock from thirty feet away." That's Sarah, who prefers to be called "Fox," who lives with her writer father in a rundown house in the middle of the woods-near Joan's suburb, but it feels like a totally different world.

    Joan and Sarah-Newt and Fox-spend all their spare time outside, and soon start writing stories together. When they win a contest, they're recruited for a summer writing class taught by a free spirit named Verla Volante. "Verla said that you need to open a door so that people can walk into your world. . . . To do that, you have to pay attention."

    The Wild Girls is about friendship, the power of story, and how growing up means finding your own answers-rather than simply taking adults on faith.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateOct 9, 2007
    ISBN9780739356678
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    The Wild Girls
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    Pat Murphy

    Eugene R. "Pat" Murphy is the executive director of The Community Solution. He co-wrote and co-produced the award-winning documentary The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil, has initiated four major Peak Oil conferences and has given numerous presentations and workshops on the subject. He has extensive construction experience and developed low energy buildings during the nation's first oil crisis.

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    • 3/5
      Joan is a 12 year old who has to move to California with her family. She makes a new friend and together they begin an adventure of being fierce, writing and learning about their families and truth. I had the feeling that I may have read part of it before as a short story somewhere. It's sweet, but it didn't bowl me over.
    • 5/5
      Fox and Newt, two delightful preteen girls who become friends, have more in common than meets the eye. Both come from loving but complicated families, both love adventure, and both end up discovering themselves through writing. In this book about friendship, loyalty, self-discovery, and the power of words, Characters come alive, and connect to the reader. When reading this book the first time I took Children's Literature in college, I stayed up until 3am to finish it, unable to put in down. This wonderful book about finding yourself through writing is now a favorite. Characters, plot, and setting are all well developed, and the book itself serves as a wonderful text for inspiring writing in students. In a classroom, I would want to lead students in some of the writing activities seen in Fox and Newt's summer writing class. So many of my own childhood memories were brought back with this book, and it is one I know I will read again in years to come.
    • 4/5
      I loved the girls in this book. Fox and Newt are so perfectly poised between childhood and adolescence, between that subterranean self that exists early on and the later, public iceberg self. Their groping towards the light is beautifully mirrored in their writing. Also, the parents, siblings and friends are complex and interesting characters. Well-written and evocative.
    • 3/5
      “We are the Wild Girls who lived in the woods. You are afraid of us because you don’t know what we will do. We had won a contest, put on our war paint and nothing would be the same again. We are the Wild Girls who lived in the woods.” The story of two imaginative 13-year-old girls who discover their voices, learn that life is about taking chances, making trouble, walking on stilts and saying what you think. When Joan’s family moves her from manicured Connecticut to untamed California she thinks her life is over. As her mom unpacks Joan angrily ventures into the overgrown woods of twisted walnuts behind her house. There in a clearing she encounters wild, red-headed Sarah (Fox) who calls herself the “Queen of the Foxes”. Soon the girls are best friends exploring the secret crevasses of the woods, harassing newts and defending their hut from older neighborhood boys. Their lives take a turn when they secretly enter a writing contest and win. Hiding behind war paint the Wild Girls bravely present their story at the award ceremony and are recruited for a summer writing class in San Francisco by the mysterious Verla Volante.Together the class takes a journey of self-discovery through writing and asking questions. As the girls transform, they realize that the truth has many meanings, even parents have feelings and are scared and most importantly how to be brave as themselves without hiding behind aliases and war paint.
    • 5/5
      i like this book alot and how theses girls diffrences make them stronger and their love for adventure and writing helps them find eachother
    • 5/5
      Alice R- This book (if you read the back) seems hard to follow, it will make so much more sense if you just start reading. This book is basically a thirteen year old girls journal and she writes about her life.
    • 4/5
      A pretty good book, I guess. My main problem with it would be the amount of pages. It's too long for the plot. I'm not saying it's a huge book-it's not. It's quite thin actually. I just think the plot could have ended half way through the book but instead, it kept going.
    • 4/5
      In 1972 California, new-comer twelve-year-old Joan meets Sarah and they become fast friends. They learn about writing, each other, and their families while taking a Summer writing class at University of Califiornia, Berkeley. This title could be an excellent read-aloud. Teachers may want to have their students work along with Joan and Sarah since many of the writing class assignments are included in the text.
    • 5/5
      Fox and Newt also known as Sarah and Joan learn about the power of observation in writing and are changed in how they see their own worlds. These bright clever "wild girls" shine through in their strength and intellect. Subplots include family tensiona and drinking. A great read. I am using this with a TAG group and the girls are doing the writing assignments as they read the book.