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Wilder Girls is a New York Times best seller. [1] The book received starred reviews from Shelf Awareness , [ 2 ] Publishers Weekly , [ 3 ] Booklist , [ 4 ] and Kirkus Reviews , [ 1 ] as well as positive reviews from NPR [ 5 ] and School Library Journal .
Goodreads' review system is more easily "gamed" than other online book-review platforms, although Goodreads remains by far the most popular website for book reviews. [ 73 ] [ 74 ] Amazon.com does not allow reviews to be posted for most books that have not yet been released, and Amazon book reviews indicate whether the user leaving the review ...
The Girls is the 2016 debut novel by American author Emma Cline.It is loosely inspired by the Manson Family and the murder of actress Sharon Tate. [1]The majority of the novel, set in 1969, focuses on 14 year old Evie Boyd, who, feeling isolated and unloved, spends her summer on a ranch with a group of teenage girls devoted to an aspiring musician named Russell Hadrick.
Each year, Goodreads, members cast votes for their favorite books, which are then curated into a list of around 15 of the year's best page-turners.This year, nearly 6 million (!) votes were cast ...
Hollis Woods - Young foster girl.. The Regans - Old man, Izzy, and Steven. They want Hollis to be a part of her family even though she pushes them away. Josie - An elderly retired art teacher who adores Hollis, but is forgetful, so Hollis is afraid that the agency will find out and make her go to a different foster home, so she takes her to the Reagans summer cabin/house.
Her first novel, Cracked Up to Be, was published in December 2008 [4] and was the 2009 Cybils Award winner for YA Fiction. [5] Her sophomore novel, Some Girls Are, was published in January 2010, [6] and received starred reviews from Kirkus Reviews, [7] Publishers Weekly, [8] and School Library Journal, [9] and was a 2010 Goodreads Choice Awards nominee in the YA Fiction category. [10]
[8] On Bookmarks Magazine Nov/Dec 2018 issue, a magazine that aggregates critic reviews of books, the book received a (3.5 out of 5) based on critic reviews with a critical summary saying, "The Silence of the Girls joins the ranks of recent novels that give voice to women during the classical era, including Mary Beard's SPQR (2015) and Madeline ...
Jean Kwok is the award-winning, New York Times and international bestselling Chinese American author of the novels Girl in Translation, Mambo in Chinatown, [1] and Searching for Sylvie Lee, which was chosen as The Today Show Read with Jenna Book Club Pick.