Skip to content

The Second Life of Abigail Walker
Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different

The Second Life of Abigail Walker Paper back - 2013

by Frances O'Roark Dowell

  • Used
  • Paperback

An award-winning author returns to modern middle-grade fiction to tell the rousing, spirited story of a girl who is being bullied, a discharged soldier with PTSD, and the ancient, mysterious fox that connects themNand helps them see another way to live.

Description

Atheneum Books for Young Readers, August 2013. Paper Back . 4.1 PB extra nice +5%.
Used - 4.1 PB extra nice +5%
NZ$12.41
NZ$6.66 Shipping to USA
Standard delivery: 2 to 8 days
More Shipping Options
Ships from The Book Nook (Illinois, United States)
The BIBLIO Guarantee | Ask Seller a Question

Details

  • Title The Second Life of Abigail Walker
  • Author Frances O'Roark Dowell
  • Binding Paper Back
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used - 4.1 PB extra nice +5%
  • Pages 272
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Atheneum Books for Young Readers
  • Date August 2013
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated, Price on Product - Canadian
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 1017299
  • ISBN 9781442405943 / 1442405945
  • Weight 0.38 lbs (0.17 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.19 x 4.54 x 0.68 in (20.80 x 11.53 x 1.73 cm)
  • Ages 08 to 12 years
  • Grade levels 3 - 7
  • Reading level 740
  • Themes
    • Character Trait: Self-Confidence
    • Topical: Family
    • Topical: Friendship
    • Topical: Self-Esteem
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012010646
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About The Book Nook Illinois, United States

Biblio member since 2018
Seller rating: This seller has earned a 3 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.

We started out as a small used book store about 20 years ago. We occupied a small storefront with approx. 1000 square feet. We would find books wherever we could. Frequenting estate sales, garage sales, and auctions was a normal occurrence for us. Bringing our customers the best quality books for an even better price was our goal.
We now occupy four storefronts with approx. 7000 square feet and stock well over 200,000 items. We process approx 150-400 used books each day through our trade credit program. New items hit the shelves each and every day!

Through it all we still strive for the same goal. TO BRING YOU THE BEST QUALITY BOOKS FOR AN AFFORDABLE PRICE.

Terms of Sale: 30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.

Browse books from The Book Nook

Media reviews

* "Abigail Walker is a large girl living in a medium-sized world. She tries to fit in at school with a group of girls whose purpose is defined by how bad they make her feel. On top of that, her father nags her about her weight, and her mother fails to recognize how her insistence on constant harmony is inherently unfair. What Abby wants is rough edges and permission to feel whatever it was she was feeling. When she encounters a fox in an overgrown lot across the street from her house, it has a talismanic effect, and Abby starts to see how social expectations do not define her own happiness. Dowell masterfully handles the hot button topic of bullying and will have readers contemplating the pettiness and self-loathing that supports it. Beating at the triumphant heart of the book is Abigails realization that life is fullest when experienced genuinely. This is a story of Abigails crossings: crossing a computer lab to make a friend; crossing a street to find peaceful isolation; crossing a creek to escape a tormentor; and crossing all the lines drawn to prevent her from feeling alive inside. A timely and heartening book for todays middle schoolers."

About the author

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 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 Award; the Phineas L. MacGuire series; Falling In; The Second Life of Abigail Walker, which received three starred reviews; Anybody Shining; Ten Miles Past Normal; Trouble the Water; the Sam the Man series; The Class; How to Build a Story; and most recently, Hazard. She lives with her family in Durham, North Carolina. Connect with Frances online at FrancesDowell.com.

Hang on… we’re fetching the requested page.