Welcome to the online home of Frances O’Roark Dowell, award-winning author of Dovey Coe, The Secret Language of Girls, Ten Miles Past Normal, Shooting the Moon and other novels for young readers. The learn about all of Frances’s books, be sure to check out the Books section of this web site. Students doing research will most most of the information they are looking for on the Biography and FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) pages.
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Coming Soon! — Trade Paperback Edition of Falling In
Frances O’Roark Dowell’s Falling In will be released in paperback on April 17, 2012. Read the unlikely story of Isabelle Bean — an ultimate misfit, an outsider extraordinaire, and definitely not a witch! <more>
Falling In by Frances O’Roark Dowell
Trade Paperback, 256 pages
List Price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 144242205X
ISBN-13: 9781442422056
In August 2012, Frances Dowell’s latest novel will be published. Watch this site or sign up for our newsletter to learn more about The Second Life of Abigail Walker. Here is the information that has been released.
The Second Life of Abigail Walker
A Novel by Frances O’Roark Dowell
Atheneum Books for Young Readers, August 2012
Hardcover, 240 pages
ISBN-10: 1442405937
ISBN-13: 9781442405936
Grades: 3 – 7
Publication Date: August 28, 2012.
The Trade Paperback edition of Ten Miles Past Normal will be released on May 22, 2012. In Frances Dowell’s first novel for a Young Adult audience, Janie Gorman wants to be normal. The problem with that: she’s not. She’s smart and creative and a little bit funky. She’s also an unwilling player in her parents’ modern-hippy, let’s-live-on-a-goat-farm experiment (regretfully, instigated by a younger, much more enthusiastic Janie). This, to put it simply, is not helping Janie reach that “normal target.” She has to milk goats every day…and endure her mother’s pseudo celebrity in the homemade-life, crunchy mom blogosphere. Goodbye the days of frozen lasagna and suburban living, hello crazy long bus ride to high school and total isolation–and hovering embarrassments of all kinds.
Speaking of Ten Miles Past Normal, check out the latest book trailer for the book on YouTube, and also find other videos related to the works of Frances Dowell. Here are just a few of our favorites.
A 60-Second Review of Ten Miles Past Normal
An Entry in a Library Contest
A Student Drama Based on Dovey Coe