{"product_id":"book-av17","title":"The Wild Girls","description":"Twelve-year-old Joan is sure that she is going to hate her new home–but almost right away she finds a kindred spirit. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“You’re lucky I didn’t just start throwing rocks at you. I can hide in the trees and nail a kid with a rock from thirty feet away.” That’s Sarah, who prefers to be called “Fox,” who lives with her writer father in a rundown house in the middle of the woods–near Joan’s suburb, but it feels like a totally different world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJoan and Sarah–Newt and Fox–spend all their spare time outside, and soon start writing stories together. When they win a contest, they’re recruited for a summer writing class taught by a free spirit named Verla Volante. “Verla said that you need to open a door so that people can walk into your world. . . . To do that, you have to pay attention.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Wild Girls\u003c\/i\u003e is about friendship, the power of story, and how growing up means finding your own answers–rather than simply taking adults on faith.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49340390900016,"sku":"BDav17","price":17.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/205767-av17-Square.jpg?v=1734043074","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-av17","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}