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How I Survived Being a Girl
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Product Description
Carolyn's tips for survival:
Keep your hair too short for ribbons.
Get a great dog.
Avoid girls who wear Mary Janes.
Spy on the neighbors.
Play in the mud.
Carolyn likes to break the rules. To her great surprise, it turns out that's what being a girl is all about.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #1837461 in Books
- Published on: 2003-08-07
- Original language: English
- Binding: Paperback
- 176 pages
Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Tomboy Carolyn is thrown for a loop when she hits puberty, in this "sunny, funny look at a girl with a smart mouth and scabby knees," said PW. Ages 8-12.
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From Kirkus Reviews
Van Draanen's first book has a crackling pace, funny lines, and an iron-willed heroine with a knack for putting herself in the center of all the action. Sixth-grader Carolyn doesn't act like a girl, and doesn't look much like one either, clad in boys clothing and wearing her hair very short. She likes to spy on the neighbors with her two brothers, play stickball, and dig foxholes in the backyard. Of girls who play with dolls and wear too much lace, she has low opinions, and hardly counts herself in the girl camp at all until some unfamiliar feelings surface for her stickball buddy, Charlie. When her baby sister, Nancy, is born, Carolyn decides that being a girl is really okay, now that she has an ally in the family. The era in which the story takes place is never specified, and while Carolyn's voice is contemporary, some of the problems she faces are dated, e.g., having to wear a dress to school and being unable to have her own paper route because she is a girl. Regardless, her irreverent narration is engaging and she's refreshingly astute about family and neighborhood dynamics. Blithely entertaining. (Fiction. 8-11) -- Copyright ©1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
Review
“Blithely entertaining.” (Kirkus Reviews )
“A sunny, funny look at a girl with a smart mouth and scabby knees.” (Publishers Weekly )
