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Frances O'Roark Dowell

Frances O'Roark Dowell
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Frances O'Roark Dowell

Frances O’Roark Dowell is the bestselling and critically acclaimed author of Dovey Coe, which won the Edgar Award and the William Allen White Award; Where I’d Like to Be; the bestselling The Secret Language of Girls and its sequels The Kind of Friends We Used to Be and The Sound of Your Voice, Only Really Far Away; Chicken Boy; Shooting the Moon, which was awarded the Christopher Medal; the Phineas L. MacGuire series; Falling In; the teen novel Ten Miles Past Normal; and most recently, the critically acclaimed The Second Life of Abigail Walker. She lives with her husband and two sons in Durham, North Carolina. Connect with Frances online at... Read full bio

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The Sound of Your Voice, Only Really Far Away will be released on August 27, 2013 in Hardcover, eBook
about 9 hours ago
The Second Life of Abigail Walker will be released on August 27, 2013 in Trade Paperback
about 11 hours ago
Phineas Mini Book 1 (Proprietary Edition) will be released on October 22, 2013 in Trade Paperback
May 05, 2013
Dovey Coe is now available in eBook
Mar 26, 2013
Dovey Coe will be released on March 26, 2013 in eBook
Mar 26, 2013
Where I'd Like To Be will be released on March 26, 2013 in eBook
Mar 26, 2013
Where I'd Like To Be is now available in eBook
Mar 26, 2013
The Secret Language of Girls will be released on March 26, 2013 in eBook
Mar 26, 2013
The Secret Language of Girls is now available in eBook
Mar 26, 2013
Excerpt:
Excerpt 1 from Dovey Coe
Nov 14, 2012
The Second Life of Abigail Walker will be released on August 28, 2012 in Hardcover, eBook
Aug 28, 2012
The Second Life of Abigail Walker is now available in Hardcover, eBook
Aug 28, 2012
Excerpt:
Chapter 1 from The Second Life of Abigail Walker
Aug 19, 2012
News:
Falling In has won an award
Aug 17, 2012
Excerpt:
Excerpt 1 from Dovey Coe
Aug 03, 2012
Excerpt:
Excerpt 1 from Where I'd Like To Be
Aug 03, 2012

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Fayetteville Observer, March 6, 2013
...Author Frances O'Roark Dowell told children at John Griffin Middle School that whether they know it, they are writers. "You have middle school, high school, college and you'll be writing...