The Secret Life of Amanda K. Woods - Softcover

Cameron, Ann

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9780141306421: The Secret Life of Amanda K. Woods

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ISBN 10: 0141306424 ISBN 13: 9780141306421

Publisher: Puffin Books, 1999

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The determined Amanda K. Woods sets out to change the things she can in order to become a proud, strong, and confident twelve-year-old in rural Wisconsin in the 1950s. Reprint. 1998 National Book Award Finalist.

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There are some things in your life you can't change -- and others you can.

Amanda Woods is discovering that the person other people think she is and the person she really is are not the same. She doesn't want to be like her demanding mother or her perfect older sister, and, even though she feels close to her father, she doesn't want to be like him, either. But she has to start somewhere. So she changes her name from bland Amanda Woods to Amanda K. Woods -- someone who is proud and strong and sure of herself. And that change sets off a chain reaction, leaving Amanda -- and the whole Woods family -- entirely different.

About the Author:

Ann Cameron was born in Rice Lake, Wisconsin. She earned a BA with honors from Radcliffe College in Massachusetts in 1965, where she studied poetry with Robert Lowell and R. S. Fitzgerald. She earned a master's degree at the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1974. Today, Cameron is the bestselling author of many popular books for children, including The Stories Julian Tells, More Stories Julian Tells, The Stories Huey Tells, and More Stories Huey Tells.

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