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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.
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"I loved The Kind of Friends We Used to Be! Kate and Marylin's friendship has changed; they acknowledge that and miss the younger friendship-of-convenience that kids tend to have, but they still value one another and their shared history. Kate at one point tells Marylin, "I'm good the way I am," and while she does mean that, she is also trying on a new way. Meanwhile Marylin is starting to figure out that she can consult herself about things like whether to go out with a particular boy; it doesn't have to be about what anyone else is going to think. The ending was pure transcendent grace."
— Lindi (4 out of 5 stars)
The Kind of Friends We Used to Be Listener Reviews
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" I liked this book, but I think it was meant for younger kids. "
— Jane569, 2/12/2014 -
" It had a bunch if detail and you as a refer wanted to keep reading and have the book never end "
— Ari, 1/24/2014 -
" It was great! though it had one of those endings that dont really conclude the story. "
— Jz, 1/22/2014 -
" I loved the well-developed and complicated characters in this book. The ending felt a little rushed though and I was sad to be "excused" from the story when I wasn't ready to leave it. "
— Allison, 1/20/2014 -
" This book so far is really good, it's about a girl named kate that wants to be a guitar girl and she meets some new friends and is not sure if she likes her first day first day of school so far. "
— Danielle, 1/19/2014 -
" very good, just very long chapters "
— Taylor, 1/17/2014 -
" i think it was a really great book because me and my old best friend didnt have a lot in common>>>>>> "
— Cowgirl, 1/14/2014 -
" wow a book about 2 girl's that USED to be best friends how one became a catty cherleader and the other who became true to herself "
— Julia, 1/12/2014 -
" I really liked this book. way better than the first one. the way the characters matured was stupefying. Marilyn learned to be more accepting of others and Kate couldn't care less what others thought about her. "
— Gaia, 1/1/2014 -
" nice <3 "
— Tessa, 12/1/2013 -
" Bianca "
— Bianca, 11/28/2013 -
" Ok, but characters didn't really develop very much. Also, so many of them that I kept waiting to find out more about them. Liked the Phineas L. McGuire books better by this author. "
— Jez, 9/9/2013 -
" This book is about these two girls who end up hateing eachother, but then they end up finding out that they have alot in common then become friends. "
— Olivia, 8/6/2013 -
" This book was cute and easy to read with a good story line "
— Abby, 6/11/2013 -
" This book was fantastic but I wish it continued to Christmas instead of stopping on Christmas Eve. "
— Hanna, 1/25/2013 -
" I like this one a bit more than the first (The Secret Language of Girls). Everyone was just figuring themselves out. The end is very happy!!! "
— Madison, 11/20/2012 -
" It really made you think about your friends and they have changed. "
— Ruth, 7/7/2012 -
" This was a nice book, I had really liked the plot of everything. A nice quick read. "
— H.orses, 4/1/2012 -
" I think the only reason I let go was because it lost my interest. Also I'm more of a fantasy reader. "
— Alexa, 1/1/2012 -
" A girl at school makes a nasty remark about 'periods', and just not my kind of book. I didn't finish it. "
— Faith, 12/20/2011 -
" I thought it was as good the first. "
— Elizabeth, 11/10/2011 -
" So far i think this is a great book, i have only one more chapter to finish. However, i think this book has a great moral about the ups and downs of life and friendship. "
— Anna, 8/2/2011 -
" Friendships growing apart is such a common thing in middle school ... and Frances O'Roark Dowell writes about it beautifully in this little book. It's a sequel to The Secret Language of Girls, but you don't have to read that one first to appreciate The Kind of Friends We Used to Be. "
— Ms., 7/13/2011 -
" it was good but the ending totally sucked "
— Kanyinsola, 5/22/2011 -
" it was great but i think it needed like one more Detail! "
— Kelsey, 4/21/2011 -
" A good story of how two girls patched up a friendship even with everything else going on around them. "
— ?Stephanie, 4/17/2011 -
" I loved the well-developed and complicated characters in this book. The ending felt a little rushed though and I was sad to be "excused" from the story when I wasn't ready to leave it. "
— Allison, 4/5/2011 -
" This book was so good! i finished it in like less than a week. "
— Mary, 3/31/2011 -
" very good, just very long chapters <br/> "
— Taylor, 3/18/2011 -
" It is AWESOME to read! My friends and I have been just like Kate and Marylin! "
— Genie, 3/14/2011 -
" I liked this one too, but the end could have been better and explain more what happened between Mathew and Kate and Marilyn and that other guy. "
— Karen, 3/8/2011 -
" i think it was a really great book because me and my old best friend didnt have a lot in common>>>>>> "
— Cowgirl, 3/2/2011
About Frances O’Roark Dowell
Frances O’Roark Dowell is the bestselling and critically acclaimed author of Dovey Coe, which won the Edgar Award and the William Allen White Award; Where I’d Like to Be; the bestselling The Secret Language of Girls and its sequels The Kind of Friends We Used to Be and The Sound of Your Voice, Only Really Far Away; Chicken Boy; Shooting the Moon, which was awarded the Christopher Medal; the Phineas L. MacGuire series; Falling In; the teen novel Ten Miles Past Normal; and the critically acclaimed The Second Life of Abigail Walker. She lives with her husband and two sons in Durham, North Carolina.
About Jessica Almasy
Jessica Almasy (she, her) is an actress, theater teacher, and award-winning audiobook narrator. She has recorded over eighty titles, including the Earphones Award–winning Clementine series and Operation Yes. She is the winner of two Audie Awards and several AudioFile Earphones Awards.