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What Girls Learn

A Novel

Part of Vintage Contemporaries

Author Karin Cook
Ebook
Knopf | Vintage
On sale Feb 16, 2011 | 320 Pages | 9780307766151
Grades 9-12
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radiant debut novel, What Girls Learn takes readers on an intimate and haunting journey into the landscape of girlhood and the complex terrain of the family. Wise, bittersweet, and above all intensely human, this astonishingly powerful novel enchants readers with its humor and insight even as it breaks their hearts.
Karin Cook graduated from Vassar College and the Creative Writing Program at New York University. An activist and health educator, she currently lives and works in New York City where she is the development office at The Door, a multiservice youth center. View titles by Karin Cook
  • WINNER
    YALSA Best Books for Young Adults
  • WINNER | 1998
    Alex Award - YALSA

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radiant debut novel, What Girls Learn takes readers on an intimate and haunting journey into the landscape of girlhood and the complex terrain of the family. Wise, bittersweet, and above all intensely human, this astonishingly powerful novel enchants readers with its humor and insight even as it breaks their hearts.

Author

Karin Cook graduated from Vassar College and the Creative Writing Program at New York University. An activist and health educator, she currently lives and works in New York City where she is the development office at The Door, a multiservice youth center. View titles by Karin Cook

Awards

  • WINNER
    YALSA Best Books for Young Adults
  • WINNER | 1998
    Alex Award - YALSA

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