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Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang
 

Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang

by Joyce Carol Oates

Five teenage girls from upstate New York in the 1950s form a blood sisterhood to protect one another against the world and its oppressors, until their leader's disastrous act of revenge puts all their lives in turmoil. Reprint. NYT. (read review)

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Jacktastic
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“I love this book and it's one of my all-time favorites. Very sad, very accurate portrait of working poor adolescence.”

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Issy
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“Well I really wouldn't even give this one star -- but this site doesn't have 1/2 stars. I started reading this book after my cousin told me how she loved the story -- but I started reading it and I HATED it! I hated the way it was written - it just sucked! I can't remember how much I actually read but I know I didn't get far. I enjoyed the movie much more and thought that between the movie and the book the movie is actually worth watching - Angelia Jolie is great in it. Use the book for a...”

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