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Hoffman, Alice.

Local girls / - New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, �1999. - 197 pages ; 21 cm

Dear diary -- Rose red -- Flight -- Gretel -- Tell the truth -- How to talk to the dead -- Fate -- Bake at 350 -- True confession -- The rest of your life -- The boy who wrestled with angels -- Examining the evidence -- Devotion -- Still among the living -- Local girls.

A Jewish girl's adolescent years on Long Island are described in a collection of stories. In one, her father remarries, in a second her brother drops out of university, in a third her mother dies of cancer.

ISBN: 0399145079 9780399145070

LCCN: 98050632

Subjects--Chronological Terms:
1900-1999

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Teenage girls--Personal narratives--Juvenile fiction.
Women--Juvenile fiction.
Families--Juvenile fiction.
Teenage girls--Identity--Personal narratives--Fiction.
Women--Friendship--Fiction.
Girls and women--Fiction.
Family relationships--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States--Social life and customs--20th century--Juvenile fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Short stories.
Frame stories.
Bildungsromans.
Fiction.
Frame stories.
Juvenile works.

LC Class. No.: PS3558.O3447 / L63 1999

Dewey Class. No.: 813/.54