Foxfire

Confessions of a Girl Gang

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English language

Published Oct. 20, 1999 by Bt Bound.

ISBN:
978-0-7857-6985-9
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3 stars (1 review)

The time is the 1950s. The place is a blue-collar town in upstate New York, where five high school girls are joined in a gang dedicated to pride, power and vengeance on a world they never made--a world that seems made to denigrate and destroy them.

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3 stars

At its best, this book provided a unique perspective of societal issues in the 1950s through the character of Legs Sadovsky--a poor teenage girl with a vision to achieve equality and justice for the fringe members of society through her girl gang, FOXFIRE. Unfortunately, the story was bogged by the narrator's uneven voice, which drifted in and out of a tedious stream of consciousness to relay anecdotes that ultimately detracted from the best parts of the story.

Subjects

  • Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9)