The Sound of Your Voice, Only Really Far Away

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Marylin and Kate find that boys can be just as complicated as friendship in this conclusion to the bestselling Secret Language of Girls trilogy, a quietly perceptive tour de force (Kirkus Reviews) from the bestselling author of Dovey Coe and The Secret Language of Girls.

Marylin knows that, as a middle school cheerleader, she has certain obligations. She has to smile as she walks down the hall, be friends with the right people, and keep her manicure in tip-top shape. But Marylin is surprised to learn there are also rules about whom shes allowed to likeand Benjamin, the student body president, is deemed unacceptable. But maybe there is a way to convince the cheerleaders that her interest in Benjamin is for their own goodmaybe shell pretend that shes using him to get new cheerleading uniforms!

Kate, of course, finds this ludicrous. She is going to like who she likes, thank you very much. And she just so happens to be spending more time than ever with Matthew Holler. But even a girl who marches to the beat of her own guitar strings can play the wrong notesand are she and Matthew even playing the same song Shes just not sure. So when Matthew tells Kate that the schools Audio Lab needs funding from the student government, she decides to do what she can to help him get it.

But there isnt enough money to go around, and it soon becomes clear that only one of the two girls can get her way. Ultimately, though, is it even her way Or are both girls pushing for something they never really wanted in the first place

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"She refuses to oversimplify, allowing readers access to the girls homes as well as school, making it clear that their inner lives are as complicated as their readers. Secondary characters, especially the girls parents, are likewise given satisfying emotional complexity.... readers leave Kate and Marylin poised between childhood and adulthoodthey are not finished, but they are on their way." * Kirkus Reviews, STARRED REVIEW *

Author Bio

Frances ORoark Dowell is the bestselling and critically acclaimed author ofDovey Coe, which won the Edgar Award and the William Allen White Award;Where Id Like to Be;The Secret Language of Girlsand its sequelsThe Kind of Friends We Used to BeandThe Sound of Your Voice, Only Really Far Away;Chicken Boy;Shooting the Moon, which was awarded the Christopher Award; the Phineas L. MacGuire series;Falling In;The Second Life of Abigail Walker, which received three starred reviews;Anybody Shining;Ten Miles Past Normal;Trouble the Water; the Sam the Man series;The Class;How to Build a Story; and most recently,Hazard. She lives with her family in Durham, North Carolina. Connect with Frances online at FrancesDowell.com.