| Edition |
First Avon paperback edition. |
| Description |
xx, 424 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
Foreword : you are what you read / Laura Lippman -- Introduction : getting my period / Lizzie Skurnick -- Still checked out : YA heroines we'll never return -- She's at that age : girls on the verge -- Danger girls : I know what you did last summer (reading) -- Read 'em and weep : tearing up the pages -- You heard it here first : very afterschool specials -- Girls gone wild : runaways, left behinds, and ladies living off the fat of the land -- She comes by it supernaturally : girls who are gifted and talented -- Him she loves : romanced, rejected, affianced, dejected -- Old-fashioned girls : they wear bonnets, don't they? -- Panty lines : I can't believe they let us read this. |
| Subject |
Young adult fiction, American -- History and criticism.
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Teenage girls -- Books and reading -- United States.
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Heroines in literature.
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Girls in literature.
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Characters and characteristics in literature.
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| Added Author |
Cabot, Meg.
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| ISBN |
9780061756351 (acid-free paper) |
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0061756350 (acid-free paper) |
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