Local Girls
Alice Hoffman

2 sets                                             Reading Level 2


         
The local girls in question are Gretel Samuelson, her best friend, Jill, her mother, Franny, and Franny's cousin Margot--four characters who weave in and out of each of the 15 related stories that chronicle the rocky years of Gretel's adolescence.  As she grows up, Gretel is witness to the breakup of her parents’ marriage, the ups and downs of the search for love, the deterioration of a brother who passes up Harvard for a job at the supermarket, and the emotional explosions that shatter the Long Island suburban quiet.

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