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The Secret Language of Girls (Library Binding)

by Frances O'Roark Dowell (Author)
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Grade 4-8–Frances O'Roark Dowell reveals The Secret Language of Girls (Atheneum, 2004) in this perfect-for-preteens story about long time friends, Kate and Marilyn. Entering middle school, these sixth graders have the usual worries about popularity and boys, along with concerns about a new girl on their street who seems determined to split up the old friends. When Marilyn becomes a cheerleader and Kate pursues her interest in basketball, the two find themselves at different lunch tables and often out of touch. Though the girls realize their paths are diverging, they continue to care about one another and look to each other for comfort when they face health and divorce problems in their own families. Michele Santopietro's narration flows smoothly from adolescent inner musings to mature mom with questions, and the sound quality is good. While this audiobook will be most appealing to a female audience, guys may gain valuable insights from this accurate look into the minds and hearts of middle school girls. Filling the contemporary fiction niche nicely, it's a solid choice for middle school and public libraries.–Barbara Wysocki, Cora J. Belden Library, Rocky Hill, CT
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Kate and Marylin have always been the kind of best friends who don't need words to talk to one another; they always just knew what the other was thinking. But lately it's starting to feel as though they don't know each other at all anymore. Marylin decides Kate (who still chases fireflies!) still acts like a baby, while Kate doesn't understand Marylin's new obsession with painting her toenails or wanting to be a cheerleader (and becoming on eof those people who only thinks about her hair!). And even though, secretly, they both wish things could be the way they were, neither one of them know how to get back there. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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5.0étoiles sur 5 Courtesy of Teens Read Too, Fév 5 2009
This review is from: The Secret Language of Girls (Paperback)
They've been friends forever, but now they are in sixth grade and something is going wrong.

This is the story of many friendships. Anyone who has felt their best friend drifting away will appreciate THE SECRET LANGUAGE OF GIRLS.

Kate and Marylin considered each other BFFs, but as sixth grade begins, their friendship is on a downhill slide. First there's Flannery, the worldly seventh grader who moves in down the street. Flannery mysteriously chooses Marylin over Kate, and the slide begins. Marylin and Flannery refuse to speak to Kate and hurl nasty insults her way practically every day.

Eventually, Flannery starts hanging out with eighth grade girls and leaves Marylin wondering what happened. It seems like the perfect time for Kate to renew their friendship, but Marylin tries out for and makes the cheerleading squad, and those new friends are just as mean as Flannery. They claim they don't have time for Kate, who isn't allowed to use makeup and prefers basketball to cheerleading.

Below the surface of the girls' new acquaintances, both spend time puzzling over how things have gotten so out of control. They both consider confronting the difficult topic, but neither wants to risk rejection.

THE SECRET LANGUAGE OF GIRLS offers middle grade readers a chance to experience a crumbling friendship that might very well be like experiences of their very own. This book examines the idea that we often know the right thing to do, but we don't have the courage to take a step in that direction.

Reviewed by: Sally Kruger, aka "Readingjunky"
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4.0étoiles sur 5 Great Novel About Changing Friendships, Jui 29 2004
This review is from: The Secret Language of Girls (Hardcover)
Kate's a bit of "late bloomer." She's not really interested in kissing boys, piercing her ears, or trying out for cheerleading. Her best friend, Marilyn, is all of sudden into all of those things. The arrival of the ultra-hip Flannery makes matters worse for Kate. The book follows Kate and Marilyn through sixth grade as they cope with changes in their lives and in their friendship. As they both come into their own, Kate's musings on which of them is really the late bloomer are truly valuable.

Honestly, the book isn't perfect: it's poorly organized and doesn't have a very strong plot line. The family issues both girls experience are just touched upon and the book could have been roudned out by incorporating these issues more in the story. However, this is the best book I've read about girls and the social pressures and changes experienced in junior high. It gives the reader a good look at both independant Kate's and cheerleader Marilyn's sides of the experience and throws in just enough light romance to make you sigh. I'd happpily hand this to any 4th, 5th or 6th grade girl.

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5.0étoiles sur 5 A story with tremendous heart, Mai 17 2004
This review is from: The Secret Language of Girls (Hardcover)
Kate and Marylin have been best friends forever. But as they enter sixth grade, their friendship changes. Kate continues to love reading, basketball and bugs, while Marylin dreams of kissing, boys and cheerleading. The friends periodically drift apart and then are pulled back together throughout THE SECRET LANGUAGE OF GIRLS.

As the girls hover between childhood and womanhood, and between being buddies and just acquaintances, their bond is tried again and again. Flannery, "the queen of eyeball rolling," moves into their neighborhood, wooing Marylin with her siren song of seventh grade sophistication. Marylin, who is working on a "whole new me," has changed her name's spelling (it used to be "Marilyn") and is wondering if her weird toes would improve with plastic surgery --- or, at least, a coat of nail polish. She goes out for cheerleading and starts hanging with the popular crowd. Kate, who does not yearn for romance, finds herself "in like" with a fellow basketball player.

Each chapter in this book is a perfect little story with the power to make the reader giggle or choke up. Early on, when Marylin and Kate rescue an orphaned baby bird, Marylin thinks Kate is "back in first-grader land." Feeling compelled to motivate her friend to grow up, Marylin tries to educate Kate on the probability of the bird's death. She worries that Kate will be devastated when the bird succumbs. During the inevitable funeral, though, Marylin finds herself moved by the little bird's demise and afterward Kate amazes her by requesting toenail-painting lessons.

In another story, Kate learns an amazing lesson on how to connect with others, taught by a free-spirited new girl at school. In yet another, Marylin has a sleepover that goes bad from the start --- until it's redeemed by a flock of snow-angels.

This is a satisfying read with tremendous heart. I wholeheartedly recommend THE SECRET LANGUAGE OF GIRLS to any female who has a best friend, had a best friend, or wants a best friend. I do have just one question: How old is the author, Frances O'Roark Dowell? She knows sixth grade girls so eerily well, I swear she can't be much over twelve.

--- Reviewed by Terry Miller Shannon (...)

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