What girls learn : (Record no. 600)

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005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
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008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION
fixed length control field 261016s1997 xx ||||| |||||||| 1|eng d
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780679448280
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 0679448284
035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER
System control number (KOHALIB)isbn-9780679448280
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Original cataloging agency KOHALIB
Language of cataloging eng
Description conventions rda
Transcribing agency KOHALIB
082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 813.54
Edition information 23
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Cook, Karin.
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title What girls learn :
Remainder of title a novel /
Statement of responsibility, etc. Karin Cook.
264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture New York :
Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer Pantheon Books,
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice 1997.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 304 pages
336 ## - CONTENT TYPE
Content type term text
Content type code txt
Source rdacontent
337 ## - MEDIA TYPE
Media type term unmediated
Media type code n
Source rdamedia
338 ## - CARRIER TYPE
Carrier type term volume
Carrier type code nc
Source rdacarrier
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. What Girls Learn takes readers on an intimate and haunting journey into the landscape of girlhood and the complex terrain of the family. Wise, bittersweet, and above all intensely human, this astonishingly powerful novel enchants readers with its humor and insight even as it breaks their hearts. In this emotional novel, Tilden, an adolescent girl, & her slightly younger sister move with their mother to suburban Long Island, where Tilden has social problems & her mother discovers she is dying of cancer. The narrator is 12-year-old Tilden of Atlanta, one of two daughters of a single mother. The story begins on a happy note as the mother finds a man and the trio move north to Long Island. Tragedy strikes when the mother is diagnosed with breast cancer. A first novel.
590 ## - LOCAL NOTE (RLIN)
Local note Inventory: Single copy, entry 613; recorded quantity 1; damaged N/A
650 #4 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Terminally Ill
650 #4 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Breast
650 #4 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Cancer
650 #4 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Mothers and Daughters
650 #4 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Adolescence
650 #4 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Fiction
650 #4 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Patients
650 #4 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Sisters
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Koha item type Book
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     Fiction Main Library Main Library 10/16/2026   813.54 COO LIB02043 10/16/2026 10/16/2026 Book