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Overview

Edgar Award–winning novelist Frances O’Roark Dowell explores the shifting terrain of middle-school friendship in this follow-up to the beloved The Secret Language of Girls. Kate and Marylin are smack dab in the middle of middle school—seventh grade—and they know they can never be best friends like they used to be. Marylin is a middle school cheerleader obsessed with popularity and hairstyles, and Kate is the exact opposite with her combat boots and hankering to learn guitar and write her own songs. Still, Kate and Marylin yearn to find some middle ground for their friendship—but it’s harder than they ever imagined.

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Mary Quattlebaum
This touching sequel to The Secret Language of Girls alternates perspectives between Kate and Marylin. This allows for a nuanced portrait of an evolving friendship…By building sympathy for both characters, Frances O'Roark Dowell creates an emotionally complex story of girls going their separate ways but managing to reconnect, sometimes in a funny and poignant fashion.
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This sequel to Dowell's The Secret Language of Girls follows Marylin and Kate as they start seventh grade on a tense note, having drifted from being BFFs to being neighbors who tiptoe around each other, unsure of what to say. The third-person perspective shifts between the two: Marylin learns that being a cheerleader means putting up with obnoxious snobs, and Kate develops an interest in songwriting. This even-handedness is both a strength and a weakness. Both girls are sympathetic but the constant switching back and forth between their various crises-Marylin's parents' divorce; Kate's anxiety over a cute boy in her creative writing club-means neither girl's story gets substantial treatment. It's more a slice of middle school life, kept afloat by Dowell's smart insights into the way the middle school mind works. The territory is familiar, but for girls on either end of a friendship whose contours keep changing, Dowell's treatment will act as a balm. Ages 8-12. (Jan.)

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This insightful sequel to The Secret Language of Girls (S & S, 2004) stands alone, but readers will want to go back and find out more about these engaging characters. Kate and Marylin used to be best friends, but sixth grade changed things. Now, as seventh graders, they are trying to work their way back to the way things "used to be." But it's not so easy when they are so different; Kate's new passion is the guitar-and her heavy black boots-while Marylin, a cheerleader, is determined to be feminine and popular at all costs. Alternating points of view make it easy for readers to relate to both girls as they navigate friendship, romance, and family relationships. Dowell gets middle-school dynamics exactly right, and while her empathetic portraits of Kate and Marylin are genuine and heartfelt, even secondary characters are memorable. A realistic and humorous look at the trials and tribulations of growing up and growing independent.-Laurie Slagenwhite, Baldwin Public Library, Birmingham, MI

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"Do you ever miss it?" Marylin asks Kate. "Being all-the-time friends, like we used to be?" The protagonists of 2005's The Secret Language of Girls return, their sixth-grade year having found these two BFFs drifting apart. One year further along, they are still negotiating their new relationship, cheerleader Marylin desperate to help her friend not seem quite so "weird," while budding rocker Kate declares, "I'm good the way I am." At school, the girls occupy their separate orbits, finding new friends and new interests while still checking in with each other. Marylin's decision to run for student government provides her the opportunity to define herself and to develop a more mature friendship with Kate. The shifting third-person narrative follows each girl in turn, investing both with clearly distinct and highly sympathetic personalities that lead them in occasionally criss-crossing directions; the questions they ask themselves as they try out new identities arise naturally and their answers are always disarmingly honest. Dowell's characteristically sensitive exploration of the inner lives of these two girls will resonate long and loud. (Fiction. 10-12)

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781416997795
  • Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
  • Publication date: 4/27/2010
  • Pages: 256
  • Sales rank: 115,766
  • Age range: 8 - 12 Years
  • Lexile: 950L (what's this?)
  • Product dimensions: 7.70 (w) x 5.24 (h) x 0.68 (d)

Meet the Author

Frances O’Roark Dowell is the bestselling and critically acclaimed author of Dovey Coe, which won the Edgar Award; Where I’d Like to Be; the bestselling The Secret Language of Girls and its sequel The Kind of Friends We Used to Be; Chicken Boy; Shooting the Moon, which was awarded the Christopher Medal; the Phineas L. MacGuire series; Falling In; and the teen novel Ten Miles Past Normal. She lives with her husband and two sons in Durham, North Carolina. Connect with Frances online at FrancesDowell.com.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 23, 2011

    If you are in middle school READ THIS!!!

    If you are in middle school (6th grade) this is real good book to read. Plus it helps give you a taste of what is going to happen in 7th grade.

    11 out of 13 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted December 13, 2009

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    the kind of friends we used to be!

    this book is SO GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i give it a 1,000,0000 STAR RATING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    10 out of 13 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted February 5, 2009

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    Reviewed by Sally Kruger aka "Readingjunky" for TeensReadToo.com

    The friendship adventures of Kate and Marylin continue in THE KIND OF FRIENDS WE USED TO BE. The girls were in sixth grade in THE SECRET LANGUAGE OF GIRLS, and now they are in seventh.

    Marylin continues to hang out with the cheerleaders, although she is gradually beginning to realize that the controlling Mazie does not always have her best interests in mind. When Marylin meets Rhetta, the new girl, she never dreams that they could have so much in common. Rhetta's gorgeous anime drawings of fairies remind Marylin of the stories she constantly imagines but never has the courage to put down on paper. Their unlikely friendship gives Marylin the inspiration to stay a cheerleader but not follow the crowd just for the sake of following.

    Kate also makes some new and different friendship connections. Who would have guessed that Flannery, who just a year ago had made Kate feel so awful, could possibly become someone with whom she can share some of her most personal thoughts with? When Kate decides to move from an interest in basketball to taking up the guitar, Flannery provides the support and encouragement Kate needs. Kate also finds another musical kindred spirit when she meets Matthew Holler. He is not like the other boys. He recognizes her need to be something other than a girly-girl, and he really listens and cares about the song lyrics she feels driven to create.

    Both Kate and Marylin realize their friendship will survive the test of time, but they also realize that they will both need other friends to support them as their interests and needs change.

    Once again, Frances O'Roark Dowell tells a story that will connect with middle grade readers. She covers the topics of struggling friendships, divorcing parents, and the need to be an individual - all subjects that complicate the growing up process.

    Both THE KIND OF FRIENDS WE USED TO BE and THE SECRET LANGUAGE OF GIRLS would be excellent additions to any middle grade classroom or library.

    8 out of 10 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 24, 2012

    AMAZING

    I loved this book couldnt put it down every part was AWSOME!!

    7 out of 8 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 1, 2012

    READ THIS!!

    My bestfreind is dyslexic and reading is frustrating for her so she tries to avoid it but when she saw the cover of the book she immeteatly checked it out of the library wich is sooooo not like her. She read this book in a week it was the biggest book she ever read and the fastest she ever read a book. This book caused her to want to come with me to the library every other school day at study hall!! This book actually made an IMPACT ON A DYSLEXIC CHILDS LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!! This should proove you should read it!!!!!

    7 out of 8 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted October 14, 2011

    Okay

    Very good book, but can be boring at some parts but otherwise excellent book to read.

    7 out of 9 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 1, 2012

    It's amazing

    This book is one of the best books i ever read! I would recomond this to the girls even if your like a tomboy this book and relate to you it did to me. There are lots of details and it never gets boring. I would say this is a fifth or sixth grade book there are some big words , but its amazing i can relate to this book and i hope the author writes more

    4 out of 5 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 26, 2011

    GOOD READ

    This is a nice book to read but you should read the first book before this one. You will enjoy this book

    4 out of 7 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 4, 2011

    Aaaaaaawwewweeeeessssssoooommmeeee

    Awesome book. Love the author. Dont think. Just BUY!

    3 out of 4 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 29, 2012

    Awsome

    This book is AWSOME! u NEED to read it!

    2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 2, 2011

    Kate reminded me so much of myself.

    I wish there was a real girl like Kate because we really relate. I like to be myself. I want to learn guitar and i am a sort of songwriter. I also have a pretty word list sort of thing. And i have had bff friendship problems. But i t got fixed. I treasure this book eith my whole heart. I will always remember every word and detail from this book :')

    2 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 26, 2011

    Best book ever!!!

    I love this book!!! I love the sequel to it also. This is one of the best books I have ever read!!! I definetly recommend it!!!

    2 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 3, 2012

    Awesome!

    This book is simply one word: AWESOME! I love how it describes something so common between normal/regular friendships. It's very easy to picture yourself in that situation, because almost everybody has gone through it. I would rate this book a million bajillion stars if I could! This book is a must read for girls between the ages of 11 to 14!

    1 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 31, 2012

    Sandra

    Must read

    1 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 25, 2012

    Luv it

    I cant believe a man had wrote this book!!!!!no offense because it went into depth so deeply i thought this woman wrote a doggon gigitty book!imagine how i felt when i realized it was a male author!!!!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 14, 2012

    Looks good

    Would you recomend reading this series in differrnt order? Is it at least okay? Please respond soon enough.......

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 5, 2012

    Read this book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    I am halfway through this book and then i am going to start the secret language of girls even though that is not in the correct order.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 22, 2012

    Great author

    I reccomend the first book, the secret language of girls. I think this will b a great book too

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 16, 2012

    Awesome

    I love this book! Everyone, you should buy this book! <3

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 13, 2012

    Outstanding and True Friends

    The story was heart touching and a book that almost any girl can relate to. The two friends Marylin and Kate go through hard times. Looks of a person are not their exact personality. Along the way, the two friends meet people who the popular croud think are not as good as them so they treat them differently, ignoring them and acting like they are weird or insane and are not worthy like they 'are.' They learn that the populars are only people who care about themseleves. But really, the friends that realy count were the friends that actually had a true heart. Friends like Rhetta, someone who Marylin meets and is the only true friend that stuck by her when she needed a friend the most. Matthew, someome who Kate meets which she happens to have a crush on but still, Matthew has been an amaxing person to talk to and won't turn his back on you just because you talk back or doen't agree with him. Those are the friends that really count. Friends that Marylin and Kate both meet.

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