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Critically acclaimed author Frances O'Roark Dowell has penned numerous books for young adults, including the Edgar Award-winning Dovey Coe. The Second Life of Abigail Walker introduces listeners to Abby, a sixth grader who's a little heavier than her peers--and who shoulders the brunt of their ridicule because of it. Finally giving up on trying to fit in, Abby discovers a new life, and new friends, waiting just around the bend.
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“Dowell masterfullyhandles the hot button topic of bullying and will have readers contemplatingthe pettiness and self-loathing that supports it. Beating at the triumphantheart of the book is Abigail’s realization that life is fullest whenexperienced genuinely. This is a story of Abigail’s crossings: crossing acomputer lab to make a friend; crossing a street to find peaceful isolation;crossing a creek to escape a tormentor; and crossing all the lines drawn toprevent her from feeling alive inside. A timely and heartening book for today’smiddle schoolers.”
— Booklist (starred review)
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“What’s wonderful is how Dowell…gracefully draws the many concentric circles of Abby’s life.”
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“Dowell creates a sympathetic and honest heroine with a flair for drama, humor, and creativity, and she resists a tidy ending in a novel that feels both timeless and entirely of-the-moment.”
— Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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A 2012 Publishers Weekly Best Book: Children's Fiction
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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.