{"product_id":"2940169177343","title":"The Wild Girls","description":"\u003cp\u003eTwelve-year-old Joan is sure that she is going to hate her new home-but almost right away she finds a kindred spirit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"You're lucky I didn't just start throwing rocks at you. I can hide in the trees and nail a kid with a rock from thirty feet away.\" That's Sarah, who prefers to be called \"Fox,\" who lives with her writer father in a rundown house in the middle of the woods-near Joan's suburb, but it feels like a totally different world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoan and Sarah-Newt and Fox-spend all their spare time outside, and soon start writing stories together. When they win a contest, they're recruited for a summer writing class taught by a free spirit named Verla Volante. \"Verla said that you need to open a door so that people can walk into your world. . . . To do that, you have to pay attention.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Wild Girls\u003c\/i\u003e is about friendship, the power of story, and how growing up means finding your own answers-rather than simply taking adults on faith.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47104324141296,"sku":"2940169177343","price":17.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169177343_p0.jpg?v=1763674557","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169177343","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}