The Kind of Friends We Used to Be

Frances O'Roark Dowell

Apr 2010 · Sold by Simon and Schuster

About this ebook

Edgar Award–winning novelist Frances O’Roark Dowell explores the shifting terrain of middle-school friendship in this follow-up to the beloved The Secret Language of Girls. Kate and Marylin are smack dab in the middle of middle school—seventh grade—and they know they can never be best friends like they used to be. Marylin is a middle school cheerleader obsessed with popularity and hairstyles, and Kate is the exact opposite with her combat boots and hankering to learn guitar and write her own songs. Still, Kate and Marylin yearn to find some middle ground for their friendship—but it’s harder than they ever imagined.

Ratings and reviews

For some reason i'm anoyyed with marylin. But Kates so wierd. But i play Bass guitar and know y she loves it so much. GO GUITAR! :o

This book was so great. I read it from my cousin Zephaniah Sainta and I fell in love with t and I mean in LOVE with it. If anybody is thinking of getting this book, GET IT!!!!. You won't regret buying it.

Its an excellent way to continue the secret language of girls and it shows how two best friends keep growing apart but theyre trying to fix it and its interesting how frances oroark dowell puts all of this into a story just by thinking...its an excellent book and i enjoyed reading it...i never wouldve read it if it hadnt been for my book club teacher that introduced the first book to me and it got me interested in this sequel and i hope that you enjoy reading it just as much as i do.

About the author

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 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 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.