The Wild Girls
by Pat Murphy
It is the early 1970s. Twelve-year-old Joan is sure that she is going to be miserable... read more
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- Grade
- 4-8
- Genre
- Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Area
- Women / Girls
Year Published 2007
Word Count 66,605
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 630L
- ATOS Reading Level: 4.1
- AR Quiz Numbers
- 117801
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Social Studies
- Subject Headings
- 20th century
- Self-actualization (Psychology)
- Family
- Family problems--Fiction
- Best friends--Fiction
- Schools
- Best friends
- Creative writing--Fiction
- San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.)--History--20th century--Fiction
- Family problems
- History
- Schools--Fiction
- Creative writing
- Self-actualization (Psychology)--Fiction
- Friendship--Fiction
- Juvenile Fiction | Historical | United States - 20th Century
- Friendship
- San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.)
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Adolescence & Coming of Age
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