Lauren Frankel. (2015). Hyacinth Girls: A Novel. Crown.

Lauren Frankel. 2015. Hyacinth Girls: A Novel. Crown.

Lauren Frankel, Hyacinth Girls: A Novel. Crown, 2015.

Lauren Frankel. Hyacinth Girls: A Novel. Crown, 2015.

OverDrive Product Record

images

• cover:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/0111-1/{28DACAE9-C4E0-4FD1-812F-EDF4DBACE8C8}Img100.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• thumbnail:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/0111-1/{28DACAE9-C4E0-4FD1-812F-EDF4DBACE8C8}Img200.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover150Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/0111-1/28D/ACA/E9/{28DACAE9-C4E0-4FD1-812F-EDF4DBACE8C8}Img150.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover300Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/0111-1/28D/ACA/E9/{28DACAE9-C4E0-4FD1-812F-EDF4DBACE8C8}Img400.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg

formats

1. • identifiers:
     1. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9780553418064
     2. • type: PublisherCatalogNumber
        • value: 239943
   • name: Adobe EPUB eBook
   • id: ebook-epub-adobe
2. • identifiers:
     1. • type: ASIN
        • value: B00N6PD2VK
     2. • type: PublisherCatalogNumber
        • value: 239943
   • name: Kindle Book
   • id: ebook-kindle
3. • identifiers:
     1. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9780553418064
     2. • type: PublisherCatalogNumber
        • value: 239943
   • name: OverDrive Read
   • id: ebook-overdrive

mediaType

eBook

primaryCreator

• role: Author
• name: Lauren Frankel

title

Hyacinth Girls

dateAdded

2015-12-18T11:53:00-05:00

contentDetails

1. • href: https://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=141&titleID=2032968
   • type: text/html
   • account:
     • name: Sacramento Public Library (CA)
     • id: 1151

sortTitle

Hyacinth Girls A Novel

crossRefId

2032968

subtitle

A Novel

id

28dacae9-c4e0-4fd1-812f-edf4dbace8c8

starRating

3.4

OverDrive MetaData

isPublicDomain

False

formats

1. • fileName: HyacinthGirls_9780553418064_2032968
   • partCount: 0
   • fileSize: 2051635
   • identifiers:
     1. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9780553418064
     2. • type: PublisherCatalogNumber
        • value: 239943
   • rights:
     1. • type: Copying
        • value: 0
     2. • type: Printing
        • value: 0
     3. • type: Lending
        • value: 0
     4. • type: ReadAloud
        • value: 0
     5. • type: ExpirationRights
        • value: 0
   • name: Adobe EPUB eBook
   • isReadAlong: False
   • id: ebook-epub-adobe
   • onSaleDate: 5/12/2015
   • samples:
     1. • source: From the book
        • formatType: ebook-overdrive
        • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/hyacinth-girls?.epub-sample.overdrive.com
2. • fileName: HyacinthGirls_2032968
   • partCount: 0
   • fileSize: 0
   • identifiers:
     1. • type: PublisherCatalogNumber
        • value: 239943
     2. • type: ASIN
        • value: B00N6PD2VK
   • name: Kindle Book
   • isReadAlong: False
   • id: ebook-kindle
   • onSaleDate: 5/12/2015
   • samples:
     1. • source: From the book
        • formatType: ebook-overdrive
        • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/hyacinth-girls?.epub-sample.overdrive.com
3. • fileName: HyacinthGirls_9780553418064_2032968
   • partCount: 0
   • fileSize: 1913756
   • identifiers:
     1. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9780553418064
     2. • type: PublisherCatalogNumber
        • value: 239943
   • name: OverDrive Read
   • isReadAlong: False
   • id: ebook-overdrive
   • onSaleDate: 5/12/2015
   • samples:
     1. • source: From the book
        • formatType: ebook-overdrive
        • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/hyacinth-girls?.epub-sample.overdrive.com

keywords

1. • value: Teenage girls
2. • value: literary fiction
3. • value: YA
4. • value: Adolescent
5. • value: parenting
6. • value: high school
7. • value: Teen Life
8. • value: teenagers
9. • value: detective
10. • value: Thrillers
11. • value: Female friendship
12. • value: Coming of age
13. • value: suspense
14. • value: Young Adult
15. • value: Adolescence
16. • value: parenthood
17. • value: Bullying
18. • value: mystery
19. • value: Drama
20. • value: womens fiction
21. • value: harassment
22. • value: orphaned
23. • value: Cyberbullying
24. • value: bully
25. • value: psychology
26. • value: Thriller
27. • value: betrayal
28. • value: sexting
29. • value: orphan
30. • value: Social Media
31. • value: raising girls
32. • value: thriller books
33. • value: mysteries and thrillers
34. • value: high school drama
35. • value: death of mother
36. • value: mean girls
37. • value: snapchat
38. • value: raising teenagers
39. • value: teenage behavior
40. • value: mystery thriller suspense
41. • value: suspense books

creators

1. • role: Author
   • fileAs: Frankel, Lauren
   • bioText: Lauren Frankel received her BA in English from Vassar College. She has worked with young people, as both an educator and a librarian, in the US and the UK. She holds an MA in creative writing from the University of East Anglia, where she won the David Higham Award. Born in Connecticut, she now lives with her husband and son in England.
   • name: Lauren Frankel

imprint

Crown

publishDate

2015-05-12T00:00:00-04:00

isOwnedByCollections

True

title

Hyacinth Girls

fullDescription

A stunning debut about a young teenager on the brink and a parent desperate to find the truth before it's too late.

   Thirteen year old Callie is accused of bullying at school, but Rebecca knows the gentle girl she's raised must be innocent. After Callie is exonerated, she begins to receive threatening notes from the girl who accused her, and as these notes become desperate, Rebecca feels compelled to intervene. As she tries to save this unbalanced girl, Rebecca remembers her own intense betrayals and best-friendships as a teenager, when her failure to understand those closest to her led to tragedy. She'll do anything to make this story end differently. But Rebecca doesn’t understand what’s happening or who is truly a victim, and now Callie is in terrible danger.
   This raw and beautiful story about the intensity of adolescent emotions and the complex identity of a teenage girl looks unflinchingly at how cruelty exists in all of us, and how our worst impulses can estrange us from ourselves - or even save us.

reviews

1. • premium: False
   • source: New York Daily News
   • content: "Quite the twisty tale."
2. • premium: False
   • source: People
   • content: "Disconcerting and suspenseful, Frankel's debut offers insights into the pressures of adolescence, the cruelty of society--and how little we know our children."
3. • premium: True
   • source:
   • content:

     March 30, 2015
     The particular cruelty that can arise in female adolescent friendship is explored in Frankel's engaging but somewhat convoluted debut. Its problem arises from two interesting but complicated stories that vie for the reader's attention. Callie's story is primary—a 13-year-old orphan raised by her mother's best friend, Rebecca. The seemingly carefree girl is suddenly accused of bullying someone in her class, and shortly thereafter Callie's life unravels. Rebecca, über devoted to her charge, can't help but get involved and reflect on her own problematic teen friendships—notably the bond she had with Callie's free-spirited mother, and a debacle with her other close friend Lara, who ended up marrying Rebecca's cousin, Curtis. The contrast between Rebecca inadvertently antagonizing Lara years earlier (she made fun of Lara's stuttering, not knowing Lara was within earshot) and what's now possible in the age of social media is eye-opening, and Frankel perceptively depicts a spiral of brutality that would have been unheard of just a decade ago. But the combination of these story lines results in unnecessary melodrama and undermines the impact of Callie's riveting story.

4. • premium: True
   • source:
   • content:

     March 1, 2015
     When a bully turns into a target, it's hard to know whom to blame. And, as this twisty debut demonstrates, whom to believe.Murder and suicide don't make for an auspicious entree into motherhood, but that's how Rebecca becomes the caretaker of her late best friend's daughter, Callie, when the girl is only 4. Frankel introduces us to this odd little family nine years later, as teenage Callie's face goes up on a billboard next to a pointed question: "Do you know your children?" The answer isn't a mystery (spoiler: no), but we spend the rest of the book retracing Rebecca's and Callie's steps to find out why not. A lonely dental hygienist with insomnia and an awkward budding romance, Rebecca means well but lacks the intuition to see through Callie's lies about the misery her school life has become. Callie blames Robyn, an unpopular girl in her class, for the trouble Callie and her friends have been getting into. Rebecca's version of support looks like willing gullibility, driven by her insecurity about playing the role of mom: "I had never been a great one at connecting the dots," she tells us, and we soon find out she's not being modest. As she peels away the layers of Callie's story, much of which is revealed through instant messages and texts between the girls, Rebecca discovers that her worst fears about herself and her young charge are depressingly accurate. It seems clear that we ought to root for Rebecca and Callie, but it's much less apparent if their redemption is even an option. Hell hath no misery like a mean girl scorned.

5. • premium: True
   • source:
   • content:

     June 1, 2015
     

     When we first meet Rebecca Lucas, the naive yet well-meaning dental hygienist who narrates most of this novel, she has just commissioned a billboard displaying a teenager's face with the question: "Do you know your children?" The teenager is Callie, the daughter of Rebecca's best friend Joyce who was killed when Callie was young. The mystery of Joyce's death, revealed in bits and pieces throughout the story, is connected to a small-town puzzle that Rebecca and Joyce tried to solve themselves when they were teens. The perspective of the story shifts between these flashbacks and the current drama unfolding at Callie's school, where she is accused of bullying--though Rebecca is convinced that Callie and her catty friends are in fact the victims. Callie gets to tell her side of things about halfway through, with details of the heartbreaking cruelty that teenage girls inflict on one another. VERDICT Frankel's debut includes beautiful turns of phrase and poetic language, and although it's a bit predictable, the plot zips along nicely. This could serve as a quick read for fans of literary thrillers or a cautionary tale for parents of teenagers.--Kate Gray, Worcester P.L., MA

     Copyright 2015 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

6. • premium: True
   • source:
   • content:

     October 1, 2015
     

     Rebecca, guardian to 13-year-old Callie, has just learned that Callie has bullied Robyn, a girl from school. Certain that Callie would never do such a thing, Callie's friends stand up for her, and the accusation goes nowhere. When Callie herself becomes the target of relentless bullying, it appears to Rebecca that Robyn turned the tables and has become the bully. Rebecca, treading on very unfamiliar ground, is Callie's guardian because her best friend Joyce was killed in an automobile accident. As the first narrator, Rebecca relates the events in Callie's life while seeking to understand how to handle it based on her own childhood relationships with Joyce. Callie doesn't know the real story behind her mother's accident, or of her father's subsequent suicide. This leaves the girl unsure of who she is and whether or not she might become like the imaginary people she believes they were. Teens' interest will pick up when Callie tells her story. Readers need both perspectives in order to understand how Rebecca, through her struggles to understand, keeps missing clues to what is really going on. Fearing for Robyn's life as much as for Callie, Rebecca is determined to make everything all right, but sometimes, others intervene to make decisions for themselves. Teenage friendships, loyalty, and when to stand one's ground is at the heart of this story. VERDICT The race to the suspenseful end will keep readers reading long into the night; the conclusion will inspire much thought.-Connie Williams, Petaluma High School, CA

     Copyright 2015 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

7. • premium: True
   • source:
   • content:

     May 15, 2015
     Rebecca likes to live in a world of order, where outcomes fall neatly into place after directions are followed to the letter. But after she becomes the legal guardian of Callie, her late best friend's daughter, she's forced to face how complicated life can be, especially once Callie is accused of bullying. Rebecca is incredulous that her sweet, smart charge could be responsible for tormenting another student and joins in on conversations vilifying the bullied girl and accusing her of being desperate for attention. But in the wake of the incident, Callie begins acting strangely and Rebecca gradually uncovers the depth of the 13-year-old's secrets, as well as the truth about who the real victim is. Debut author Frankel alternates between Rebecca's and Callie's perspectives, providing insight into the messy, secretive emotions each buries beneath her calm exterior. Though Rebecca occasionally seems painfully out of touch, her anxiety about caring for Callie, as well as the intensity of Callie's teenage emotions, comes through in Frankel's lyrical prose, all while revealing the pervasive, damaging cruelty both children and adults can so carelessly espouse.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2015, American Library Association.)

popularity

162

links

• self:
  • href: https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L1BWwAAAA2I/products/28dacae9-c4e0-4fd1-812f-edf4dbace8c8/metadata
  • type: application/vnd.overdrive.api+json

id

28dacae9-c4e0-4fd1-812f-edf4dbace8c8

starRating

3.5

images

• cover:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/0111-1/{28DACAE9-C4E0-4FD1-812F-EDF4DBACE8C8}Img100.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• thumbnail:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/0111-1/{28DACAE9-C4E0-4FD1-812F-EDF4DBACE8C8}Img200.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover150Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/0111-1/28D/ACA/E9/{28DACAE9-C4E0-4FD1-812F-EDF4DBACE8C8}Img150.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover300Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/0111-1/28D/ACA/E9/{28DACAE9-C4E0-4FD1-812F-EDF4DBACE8C8}Img400.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg

isPublicPerformanceAllowed

False

languages

1. • code: en
   • name: English

subjects

1. • value: Fiction
2. • value: Literature
3. • value: Suspense
4. • value: Thriller

publishDateText

05/12/2015

otherFormatIdentifiers

1. • type: ISBN
   • value: 9780553418057

mediaType

eBook

shortDescription

A stunning debut about a young teenager on the brink and a parent desperate to find the truth before it's too late.

   Thirteen year old Callie is accused of bullying at school, but Rebecca knows the gentle girl she's raised must be innocent. After Callie is exonerated, she begins to receive threatening notes from the girl who accused her, and as these notes become desperate, Rebecca feels compelled to intervene. As she tries to save this unbalanced girl, Rebecca remembers her own intense betrayals and best-friendships as a teenager, when her failure to understand those closest to her led to tragedy. She'll do anything to make this story end differently. But Rebecca doesn’t understand what’s happening or who is truly a victim, and now Callie is in terrible danger.
   This raw and beautiful story about the intensity of adolescent emotions and the complex identity of a teenage girl looks unflinchingly at how cruelty...

sortTitle

Hyacinth Girls A Novel

crossRefId

2032968

subtitle

A Novel

publisher

Crown

bisacCodes

1. • code: FIC019000
   • description: Fiction / Literary
2. • code: FIC030000
   • description: Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense
3. • code: FIC043000
   • description: Fiction / Coming of Age