cover image The Secret Life of Amanda K. Woods

The Secret Life of Amanda K. Woods

Ann Cameron. Puffin Books, $6.99 (201pp) ISBN 978-0-14-130642-1

This National Book Award finalist, set in 1950s Wisconsin, centers on an 11-year-old girl's coming of age. PW called her transformation ""less dramatic than a butterfly's metamorphosis, but just about as impressive."" Ages 10-14. (Oct.)