Name: The New Girls
ISBN: 9780060977023

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Why This Clicks

Tradition Meets Change

Follow five girls through prep-school years as familiar traditions meet a society in upheaval.

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A coming-of-age story shaped by the mid-sixties
Private growing pains alongside public change

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Five girls at the center
A shift from innocence toward social conscience and self-discovery

Book Details

Authors: Beth Gutcheon
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: May 3, 2005
Format: Paperback
Theme: Gilded-Age Romance · 20th-Century US YA
Reading lane: Gilded-Age Romance

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Plays by Women
Literary Fiction
Medieval Romance
20th-Century Historical Romance

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Romantic Comedy
American Historical Romance
Royal Romance
Gilded-Age Romance

About This Book

The New Girls is a resonant, engrossing novel about five girls during their formative prep-school years in the tumultuous mid-sixties. Into their reality of first-class trips to Europe, resort vacations, and deb parties enter the Vietnam War, the women's movement, and the sexual revolution. As the old traditions collide with the new society, the girls lose their innocence, develop a social conscience, and discover their sexuality -- blossoming into women shaped by their turb...

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The New Girls is a resonant, engrossing novel about five girls during their formative prep-school years in the tumultuous mid-sixties. Into their reality of first-class trips to Europe, resort vacations, and deb parties enter the Vietnam War, the women's movement, and the sexual revolution. As the old traditions collide with the new society, the girls lose their innocence, develop a social conscience, and discover their sexuality -- blossoming into women shaped by their turbulent times.