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What girls learn : a novel / Karin Cook

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Cook, Karin, , 1969-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Pantheon Books , c1997.Edition: 1st edDescription: x, 304 p. ; 22 cmISBN:

9780679769446

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DDC classification:

YA FIC COO

LOC classification:

PS3553.O55385 W48 1997

Summary: Teetering on the brink of adolescence, narrator Tilden and her slightly younger sister Elizabeth are initially wary when their mother, a hopelessly romantic optimist, moves the small family from Atlanta to suburban Long Island to be with her new beau, Nick. Tilden has some difficulties adjusting to the changes in her life, but Elizabeth jumps right in with her new, fast crowd and never looks back. Tilden is finally beginning to feel more comfortable when she is faced with the unconquerable-her mother finds a lump in her breast and fails quickly despite aggressive treatment. Cook has a deft touch in capturing the domestic dialogue of family life, the alternating innocence and wiseass cynicism of preteens, and the ache of a mother who tried to do the best for her girls.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode
Young Adult	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Juvenil	Juvenil	YA FIC COO (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	Fiction		032367

Teetering on the brink of adolescence, narrator Tilden and her slightly younger sister Elizabeth are initially wary when their mother, a hopelessly romantic optimist, moves the small family from Atlanta to suburban Long Island to be with her new beau, Nick. Tilden has some difficulties adjusting to the changes in her life, but Elizabeth jumps right in with her new, fast crowd and never looks back. Tilden is finally beginning to feel more comfortable when she is faced with the unconquerable-her mother finds a lump in her breast and fails quickly despite aggressive treatment. Cook has a deft touch in capturing the domestic dialogue of family life, the alternating innocence and wiseass cynicism of preteens, and the ache of a mother who tried to do the best for her girls.

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