Ordinary Girls

Name: Ordinary Girls
Brand: Harper Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Blair Thornburgh
ISBN: 9780062914019

Author: Blair Thornburgh

Narrator: Jorjeana Marie

Unabridged: 8 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 06/04/2019

Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Coming Of Age, Family, Social Themes

Synopsis

*A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2019**A Booklist Editors' Choice for Books for Youth 2019*Perfect for fans of Sarah Mlynowski and Jenny Han, this heartfelt and humorous contemporary take on Sense and Sensibility follows two sisters—complete opposites—who discover the secrets they’ve been keeping make them more alike than they’d realized. For siblings as different as Plum and Ginny, getting on each other’s nerves is par for the course. But when the family’s finances hit a snag, sending chaos through the house in a way only characters from a Jane Austen novel could understand, a distance grows between them like never before.Plum, a self-described social outcast, finally has something in her life that doesn’t revolve around her dramatic older sister. But what if coming into her own means Plum isn’t there for Ginny when she, struggling with a hard secret of her own, needs her most?

About Blair Thornburgh

Blair Thornburgh is the author of several books for kids and teens. Her first novel, Who’s That Girl, was named a Bank Street Best Book of the Year. Ordinary Girls was named a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2019 for teens as well as an ALA Booklist Editors’ Choice: Books for Youth. A graduate of the University of Chicago and of Hamline University’s MFA program in Writing for Children and Young Adults, she lives outside of Philadelphia (in real life) and at www.blairthornburgh.com (online).

Reviews

Goodreads review by Samantha (WLABB) on June 06, 2019

From the opening, where Plum lamented how she had never been good at beginnings, I found myself totally engrossed with her storytelling and this tale. There was something about Plum's voice, that made me want to get to know her better, and I could not the resist the charm and allure of her quirky wo......more

Goodreads review by Blodeuedd on July 19, 2019

So nothing really happens, and a lot of fancy words are used, but, it was just so lovely to read a YA book where ok so there was some drama, but it was real drama. It was calm, and then a storm might come, but they weathered it. Patience and Ginny lives with their mum in a crumbling house. Too big, t......more

Goodreads review by erin on September 16, 2020

what is this book and WHY DID I LOVE IT?! Let's be real....I'm a sucker for books with sibling(more so sister) relationships. I knew I would love this book as soon as I read the synopsis. This novel is just so weird but somehow it works??!! Also, the writing is very inconsistent, and it often felt li......more

Goodreads review by Tina on June 14, 2019

A funny, smartypants exterior conceals a loving and emotional center in this angst ridden tale of two sisters at the end of the school year, the brilliant eldest awaiting college entry news and the younger trying to find a way to let her own light shine. Loss, grief, jokes, literary allusion, mini l......more

Goodreads review by 17wynnh101 on September 11, 2019

I really enjoyed this book because it was about everyday life so I could relate to it. I found it funny and relatable however not much went on throughout it. There was a good ending because at the struggles the girls were going through were resolved. I would recommend it to girls.......more