Book Party: "Celebration of Friendship" with Frances O’Roark Dowell's new middle grade novel The Second Life of Abigail Walker
09/14/2012 7:00 pm
Etc/GMT-4
Fri 9/14 7pm-8pm
Book Party "Celebration of Friendship" with author Frances O’Roark Dowell to celebrate her new middle grade fiction book The Second Life of Abigail Walker
We will be making friendship bracelets, have a graffiti wall, a school counselor from Estes Hills will be on hand to talk to kids about friends and bullying, and…Cookies! Frances will be on WUNC's The State of Things Friday afternoon.
Atheneum Books for Young Readers hc $16.99 middle grade fiction 9781442405936
Is it possible to start afresh when you're thoroughly
weighted down? Seventeen pounds. That's the difference between Abigail Walker
and Kristen Gorzca. Between chubby and slim, between teased and taunting. Abby
is fine with her body and sick of seventeen pounds making her miserable, so she
speaks out against Kristen and her groupies--and becomes officially unpopular.
Embracing her new status, Abby heads to an abandoned lot across the street and
crosses an unfamiliar stream that leads her to a boy who's as different as they
come. This is a rousing, spirited story of a girl who is being bullied, a
discharged soldier with PTSD, and the ancient, mysterious fox that connects
them--and helps them see another way to live. This novel has already received
starred Publisher’s Weekly and Kirkus reviews.
Frances O’Roark Dowell is the bestselling and critically
acclaimed author of Dovey Coe, the
novel The Secret Language of Girls,
and its sequel The Kind of Friends We
Used to Be, the Phineas L. MacGuire series, and most recently Falling In and the teen novel Ten Miles Past Normal. She lives with
her husband and two sons in Durham.
Location:
- Street:
- 752 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
- Additional:
- Next to Foster's Market & Kitchen
- City:
- Chapel Hill ,
- Province:
- North Carolina
- Postal Code:
- 27514
- Country:
- United States
