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The Sound of Your Voice, Only Really Far Away by Frances O'Roark Dowell - ISBN: 9781442432895
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Friendship, boys, and middle school politics collide in this complicated conclusion.

The Sound of Your Voice, Only Really Far Away

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    240 pages

  • Release Date

    1 October 2013

Summary

In the conclusion to the bestselling Secret Language of Girls trilogy, Marylin and Kate find that boys can be just as complicated as friendship.

Marylin knows that, as a middle school cheerleader, she has certain obligations. She has to smile as she walks down the hall, be friends with the right people, and keep her manicure in tip-top shape. But Marylin is surprised to learn there are also rules about whom she’s allowed to like—and Benjamin, the student body president, is deemed unac…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781442432895
ISBN-10:1442432896
Author:Frances O'Roark Dowell
Publisher:Simon & Schuster
Imprint:Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:240
Release Date:1 October 2013
Weight:276g
Dimensions:23mm x 127mm x 191mm
Series:The Secret Language of Girls Trilogy
Audience Age:10-14
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Critics Review

“She refuses to oversimplify, allowing readers access to the girls’ homes as well as school, making it clear that their inner lives are as complicated as their readers’. Secondary characters, especially the girls’ parents, are likewise given satisfying emotional complexity…. readers leave Kate and Marylin poised between childhood and adulthood—they are not finished, but they are on their way.” * Kirkus Reviews, STARRED REVIEW *

About The Author

Frances O'Roark Dowell

Frances O’Roark Dowell is the bestselling and critically acclaimed author of:

  • Dovey Coe (Edgar Award, William Allen White Award)
  • Where I’d Like to Be
  • The Secret Language of Girls
  • The Kind of Friends We Used to Be
  • The Sound of Your Voice, Only Really Far Away
  • Chicken Boy
  • Shooting the Moon (Christopher Award)
  • The Phineas L. MacGuire series
  • Falling In
  • The Second Life of Abigail Walker (three starred reviews)
  • Anybody Shining
  • Ten Miles Past Normal
  • Trouble the Water
  • The Sam the Man series
  • The Class
  • How to Build a Story
  • Hazard
  • Then a House Fell on Her Head

She lives with her family in Durham, North Carolina.

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