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<p><p>sarah Promised Marjorie When They Were Five Years Old That They Would Be Best Friends Forever. But That Was Before Seventh Grade, When Everything Changed&#8212;everything Except Marjorie. While Sarah Wants To Meet New People And Try New Things, Marjorie Still Likes Doing The Same Things They Always Did. It Seems The More Time The Two Girls Spend Together, The More Time Sarah Wants To Spend Apart. How Did A Promise That Was So Easy To Make Become So Hard To Keep?</p><h3>publishers Weekly</h3><p>in This Quiet, Strongly Realistic Novel, Willner-pardo (my Mom And Other Mysteries Of The Universe) Explores The Intricacies Of Preadolescent Social Life, Where The Worst Possible Thing Is To Be Weird. Seventh-grader Sarah Struggles Between Her Devotion To Her Longtime Best Friend Marjorie--who Is Weird, And Doesn't Seem To Care--and Her New, Cooler, But Not As Interesting Friends. She Loves And Admires Marjorie For Her Idiosyncratic Individuality But, Acutely Aware Of Social Mores, Cringes When She Sees Her Through The Eyes Of Other Seventh-graders (marjorie Was Still Wearing Shirts With Cartoon Characters On Them). Mild And Accepting On The Outside, Sarah Is Inwardly Obsessed With Try

Author

Gina Willner-Pardo

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780547550176

Subjects

Children'S, Fiction, Juvenile

Rating

3.39 / 5 (116 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14