Agnes Parker... Girl in Progress

Name: Agnes Parker... Girl in Progress
Brand: Penguin Random House
Availability: InStock
Author: Kathleen O'Dell
ISBN: 9780307207050

Author: Kathleen O'Dell

Narrator: Cassandra Campbell

Unabridged: 3 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Listening Library

Published: 03/22/2005

Categories: Children's Fiction, School, Children's Social Themes

Synopsis

Eleven-year-old Agnes Parker has always been your everyday girl. But this year, Agnes is determined to become a whole new person. Maybe not a whole new person exactly, but just a better version of the girl she’s always been. Someone who’s not such an easy target for bullygirls like Peggy Neidermeyer. Someone who is as cool and confident as her best friend, Prejean. Will the new Agnes Parker make it through a school year filled with new glasses, broken arms, and a cute new boy in school?

About The Author

Kathleen O'Dell and her husband live with their sons in Glendale, California.Kathleen O'Dell was named a Publisher Weekly Flying Start author for Agnes Parker . . . Girl in Progress, about which VOYA proclaimed, "O'Dell creates some of the liveliest characters in recent young adult fiction."

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lindsey on February 24, 2010

Oh I remember reading this book in the 4th grade! I don't even know if this book is very well known but it was one of the first books that I truly really liked and made me want to read a lot more books! I've been searching for this one for ages and now I've finally found it! I can't remember the boy......more

Goodreads review by Dana on December 17, 2017

Bullyingg is so realistic in todays society and this a good book of how things happen to our children. The strength of Agnes is immaculate. She shows just how a person can become better in areas they are determined to.......more

Goodreads review by Bethany on October 06, 2020

I read this one with my big girl, but she was a little young for it. This is 6th grade and up. Deals with some heavy issues like loss of a parent, bullying, crushes. It would be good if timed right. A few things out of date like landlines 🤣......more

Goodreads review by Beimnet on December 05, 2013

The book Agnes Parker Girl in Progress is written by Kathleen O’Dell. The book was published by Dial Books and is 158pg long. On the cover of the book is a girl standing with her arms out which looks like to be Agnes Parker. She is standing around some images which look like to be what is going to h......more

Goodreads review by Natalia on December 02, 2009

I read this book for In2Books, a great program that matches elementary school kids with adults as electronic book-reading pen pals. From the adult pen-pal side, it's fun to read the books and write to my partner, and everything I've read says that the program has been hugely sucessful, since it moti......more