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American Girls

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A bittersweet, honest, and widely acclaimed YA coming-of-age novel that distills honest truths about American girldom
Anna is a fifteen-year-old girl slouching toward adulthood, and she's had it with her life at home. So Anna "borrows" her stepmom's credit card and runs away to Los Angeles, where her half-sister takes her in. But LA isn't quite the glamorous escape Anna had imagined.
As Anna spends her days on TV and movie sets, she engrosses herself in a project researching the murderous Manson girls—and although the violence in her own life isn't the kind that leaves physical scars, she begins to notice the parallels between herself and the lost girls of LA, and of America, past and present.
In Anna's singular voice, we glimpse not only a picture of life on the B-list in LA, but also a clear-eyed reflection on being young, vulnerable, lost, and female in America—in short, on the B-list of life. Alison Umminger writes about girls, violence, and which people society deems worthy of caring about, which ones it doesn't, in a way not often seen in teen fiction.
American Girls is:

An ALA Booklist Top 10 First Novel

A
Kirkus Best Book of the Year
A Barnes & Noble Best YA Book of the Year

A Chicago Public Library Best of the Best of 2016
A Bustle Best YA Book of the Year
YALSA's Best Fiction for Young Adults
"Messy, honest, and unflinchingly real. I can't get this book out of my head. I don't want to get this book out of my head." —Becky Albertalli, Morris Award-winning author of Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda


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Publisher: Flatiron Books

Kindle Book

  • Release date: June 7, 2016

OverDrive Read

  • ISBN: 9781250075024
  • File size: 839 KB
  • Release date: June 7, 2016

EPUB ebook

  • ISBN: 9781250075024
  • File size: 839 KB
  • Release date: June 7, 2016

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Kindle Book
OverDrive Read
EPUB ebook

Languages

English

Levels

ATOS Level:5.8
Lexile® Measure:920
Interest Level:9-12(UG)
Text Difficulty:4-5

A bittersweet, honest, and widely acclaimed YA coming-of-age novel that distills honest truths about American girldom
Anna is a fifteen-year-old girl slouching toward adulthood, and she's had it with her life at home. So Anna "borrows" her stepmom's credit card and runs away to Los Angeles, where her half-sister takes her in. But LA isn't quite the glamorous escape Anna had imagined.
As Anna spends her days on TV and movie sets, she engrosses herself in a project researching the murderous Manson girls—and although the violence in her own life isn't the kind that leaves physical scars, she begins to notice the parallels between herself and the lost girls of LA, and of America, past and present.
In Anna's singular voice, we glimpse not only a picture of life on the B-list in LA, but also a clear-eyed reflection on being young, vulnerable, lost, and female in America—in short, on the B-list of life. Alison Umminger writes about girls, violence, and which people society deems worthy of caring about, which ones it doesn't, in a way not often seen in teen fiction.
American Girls is:

An ALA Booklist Top 10 First Novel

A
Kirkus Best Book of the Year
A Barnes & Noble Best YA Book of the Year

A Chicago Public Library Best of the Best of 2016
A Bustle Best YA Book of the Year
YALSA's Best Fiction for Young Adults
"Messy, honest, and unflinchingly real. I can't get this book out of my head. I don't want to get this book out of my head." —Becky Albertalli, Morris Award-winning author of Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda


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  • Details

    Publisher:
    Flatiron Books

    Kindle Book
    Release date: June 7, 2016

    OverDrive Read
    ISBN: 9781250075024
    File size: 839 KB
    Release date: June 7, 2016

    EPUB ebook
    ISBN: 9781250075024
    File size: 839 KB
    Release date: June 7, 2016

  • Creators
  • Formats
    Kindle Book
    OverDrive Read
    EPUB ebook
  • Languages
    English
  • Levels
    ATOS Level: 5.8
    Lexile® Measure: 920
    Interest Level: 9-12(UG)
    Text Difficulty: 4-5
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