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The New Girls

by Beth Gutcheon · 1979 · 352 pages

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Explores the lives of five girls on the brink of womanhood in a New England prep school.

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Genre
coming of agehistorical fictionwomen’s fictionliterary fiction
Setting
new englandboarding school
Audience
young adult
Length
medium · 352 pages

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