Frances O'Roark Dowell
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
HERE'S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT PHINEAS L. MACGUIRE,
BOY-SCIENTIST EXTRAORDINAIRE, AKA MAC:
1. He's allergic to purple, telephone calls, and girls, and can prove it.
2. He's probably the world's expert on mold, including which has the highest stink potential.
3. He does not have a best friend. He does, however, have an un-best friend, who he does not — repeat, not — want to upgrade to best-friend...
BOY-SCIENTIST EXTRAORDINAIRE, AKA MAC:
1. He's allergic to purple, telephone calls, and girls, and can prove it.
2. He's probably the world's expert on mold, including which has the highest stink potential.
3. He does not have a best friend. He does, however, have an un-best friend, who he does not — repeat, not — want to upgrade to best-friend...
2) The class
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"A sixth-grade class comes together to support a classmate in need, each of them giving their own perspective on the goings on"--Provided by the publisher.
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Critically acclaimed author Frances O'Roark Dowell has penned numerous books for young adults, including the Edgar Award-winning Dovey Coe. The Second Life of Abigail Walker introduces listeners to Abby, a sixth grader who's a little heavier than her peers—and who shoulders the brunt of their ridicule because of it. Finally giving up on trying to fit in, Abby discovers a new life, and new friends, waiting just around the bend.
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Edgar Award-winning author Frances O'Roark Dowell is acclaimed for the rich characterizations in her poignant coming-of-age novels. Drawing on her experience as a colonel's daughter, Dowell delivers an evocative portrait of a 12-year-old girl whose view of life, war, and her dad- Fort Hood's base commander-changes as her corpsman brother sends home haunting images from Vietnam. An eloquent narration captures the emotional intensity of the novel's...
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Having spent her youth travelling the world, Edgar Award winner Frances O'Roark Dowell is the author of the critically acclaimed Shooting the Moon. A compelling coming-of-age story, The Kind of Friends We Used to Be will resonate in the minds of listeners of all ages long after its conclusion.
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Can one mistake destroy the chance of a lifetime? A girl discovers there are many ways of being true in this magnificent ode to handwritten letters and the shining power of friendship from the author of "Dovey Coe," set in the Appalachian mountains of 1920s North Carolina. One true friend. Someone shining. That's all twelve-year-old Arie Mae wants. But shining true friends are hard to come by deep in the mountains of western North Carolina, so she...
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