

The Wild Girls
Author: Pat Murphy
Narrator: Coleen Marlo
Unabridged: 6 hr 58 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Listening Library
Published: 10/09/2007
Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Social Themes, Coming Of Age, Girls & Women
Synopsis
“You’re lucky I didn’t just start throwing rocks at you. I can hide in the trees and nail a kid with a rock from thirty feet away.” That’s Sarah, who prefers to be called “Fox,” who lives with her writer father in a rundown house in the middle of the woods–near Joan’s suburb, but it feels like a totally different world.
Joan and Sarah–Newt and Fox–spend all their spare time outside, and soon start writing stories together. When they win a contest, they’re recruited for a summer writing class taught by a free spirit named Verla Volante. “Verla said that you need to open a door so that people can walk into your world. . . . To do that, you have to pay attention.”
The Wild Girls is about friendship, the power of story, and how growing up means finding your own answers–rather than simply taking adults on faith.