The Secret Language Of Girls - by Frances O'Roark Dowell

Significance
Perspective
Evidence
Connection
Supposition

Significance
This book is about two girls named Marylin and Kate. These to eleven year old girls have been best friends for as long as they can remember- well, that is until the new girl moved in across the street. Flannery was a grade older than them, and acted as if the whole world revolved around her. Kate immediately realized Flannery was not her type of friend, but Marilyn thought differently. Marilyn started to hang out more with Flannery than Kate, and also started treating Kate is if she didn't exist.
This book is important because it's like a how-to book for when you are in that type of sutuation. And for a lot of people, this book could probably help them solve their problems. I chose to read this book for December because one of my friends read it and suggested that I should read it as well. It looked interesting so I decided I would try it out.

Perspective
The author of this book is Francis O'Roark Dowell. She wrote this book in 2005. If this book was written by a guy, then the story might be a little bit different because maybe the main character would have been a boy. If i had to explain this book to a third grader, then I would probably say something like, "Kate and Marilyn were best friends. They had always been best friends, until Flannery moved into the house across the street and ruined their friendship..."
The way that Kate overcomes her problem of Marilyn being friends with Flannery, is that she just tries to make new friends at school instead of only trying to be Marilyn's friend again.

Evidence
The argument that the author seems to be trying to make is that Marilyn made a bad dicision to be friends with Flannery, and Kate needs to realize that it isn't her own fault, but if she tries to be friends with her again, it wouldn't be the same. The author has shown her support for her argument by sneeking in small gestures from Flannery to Kate, showing how rude Flannery not only is her self, but how what she is turning Marilyn into. In my opinion, I completely agree with the author's argument.

Connection
I know that personally, I cannot relate to this situation. Even though I have experienced the opposite, which is when my best friend that lived down the street moved all the way to Colorado. But I do know that this book does relate to today's world because people move around all the time, and alot of people can relate to either when they were the new kid, or a new kid moved in This book has inspired me to read more books about real people and real things that happen to them. Or maybe just to read more books by Francis O'Roark Doewll.

Supposition
I predict that in the next book, there will bea new girl that moves in but she is nice. Then Kate and Marilyn will have a completely different situation to deal with. If this story was about two boys that were best friends and a new boy moved in, then the story would be completely different. For example, there might be more physical instead of emotional fights.