Title: The wild girls
Description: It is the early 1970s. Twelve-year-old Joan is sure that she is going to be miserable when her family moves from Connecticut to California. Then she meets a most unusual girl. Sarah prefers to be called "Fox," and lives with her author dad in a rundown house in the middle of the woods. The two girls start writing their own stories together, and when one wins first place in a student contest, they find themselves recruited for a summer writing class taught by the equally unusual Verla Volante. The Wild Girls is about friendship, the power of story, and how coming of age means finding your own answers--rather than simply taking adults on faith.
Subjects: Juvenile Fiction, Family problems, Fiction, Creative writing, Historical Fiction, Schools, Best friends, Self-actualization (Psychology), Friendship, History, Children's fiction, Friendship, fiction, California, fiction
Places: San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.)
Time periods: 20th century