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My Life as a Girl

by Elizabeth Mosier · 1999

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During her last summer in Phoenix, Arizona, before going to an eastern college, eighteen-year-old Jaime works two waitress jobs and plans her escape from a life forever changed by her father's prison sentence.

Genre
coming of agecoming of ageMore like thisLess of this
Themes
familyfamilyMore like thisLess of this
Setting
1990s1990sMore like thisLess of thisPhoenixPhoenixMore like thisLess of this
Audience
young adult
Length
short · 192 pages

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