MARC Record from marc_columbia

LEADER: 01977pam a2200301 a 4500
001 4225354
005 20221027061130.0
008 030520s2003 nyu 000 1 eng
010 $a 2003053600
020 $a0312288026
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm52347768
035 $a(NNC)4225354
035 $a4225354
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dYDX$dOrLoB-B
050 00 $aPS3619.W356$bS47 2003
082 00 $a813/.6$221
100 1 $aSwann, Maxine.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2003044497
245 10 $aSerious girls /$cMaxine Swann.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bPicador,$c2003.
300 $a229 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 1 $a"When her grandmother insists that Maya be sent away to boarding school, the sixteen-year-old feels as if her life has turned a new page. Raised in the remote countryside by her bohemian mother, Maya finds herself isolated in the all-girl community. When Roe, another outsider, becomes her friend, the two girls tell each other their life stories and speculate as to what growing up might mean. How do they become "people" with style and character as opposed to schoolgirls?" "Their desire to be adults takes them beyond the closed world of the school into the local town and the city, where they experiment with being grown up - shopping in thrift stores, confronting their fears as they try new identities, and wondering about sex. Both girls test the precarious line between an emerging sense of self and its total disintegration in the very different relationships from which they eventually escape, wiser and secure once again in their friendship and curiosity about life."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aTeenage girls$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008112612
650 0 $aFemale friendship$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008103512
650 0 $aBoarding school students$vFiction.
852 00 $bglx$hPS3619.W356$iS47 2003