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    Girls Don't Fly
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    Girls Don't Fly
    Audiobook7 hours

    Girls Don't Fly

    Written by Kristen Chandler

    Narrated by Becca Battoe

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    She's learning to be happy . . . on her own.

    Myra is used to keeping her feet firmly on the ground. She's got four younger brothers, overworked parents, and a pregnant older sister, and if Myra wasn't there to take care of everyone, they'd probably fall apart. But when her boyfriend unceremoniously dumps her, Myra feels like she's lost her footing. Suddenly she's doing things she never would have a few months earlier: jumping around in a chicken suit for a part-time job, competing against her ex-boyfriend for a scholarship to study birds in the Galápagos, and falling for a guy who's encouraging her to leap from her old life . . . and fly.

    With plenty of heart and humor, Kristin Chandler tells a story that will make you feel good from the soles of your feet to the tips of your wings.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateOct 13, 2011
    ISBN9780307942494
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    Girls Don't Fly
    Author

    Kristen Chandler

    Kristen Chandler lives in Orem, Utah.

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    • 4/5
      Myra takes care of everyone in her large family. Her mother and father work long hours to support them. Myra goes to school, works, and takes care of her four younger brothers. Now her older sister is home, pregnant and on bed-rest, so Myra must care for her as well. When the opportunity to wina scholarship for a research trip comes up Myra really wants to go, even if it means competing against her sleazy ex-boyfriend, and in spite of the fact that no one seems to think she can win.
    • 2/5
      Kristen Chandler writes well. She really does. I read her first book, "Wolves, Boys, and Other Things That Might Kill Me" and enjoyed it. The weakness of the first book was it went on too long just developing characters before any real plot got rolling. The problem with this book is that ALL of the book is developing characters, and no plot ever really develops at all.Myra is a teen in a large family which depends on her too much. Her dreadful boyfriend dumps her as the book opens and she is then promptly in a competition with him to receive a grant to study for the summer in the Galapagos Islands. Those two sentences accurately summarize about 90% of the book. I found it very disappointing. I liked Myra, and Chandler writes well enough that it's never painful to read, but in the end I was left desperately longing for something to have happened besides self-discovery and realizing that her ex-boyfriend was an ass.
    • 4/5
      Myra takes care of everyone in her large family. Her mother and father work long hours to support them. Myra goes to school, works, and takes care of her four younger brothers. Now her older sister is home, pregnant and on bed-rest, so Myra must care for her as well. When the opportunity to wina scholarship for a research trip comes up Myra really wants to go, even if it means competing against her sleazy ex-boyfriend, and in spite of the fact that no one seems to think she can win.
    • 3/5
      Girls Don't Fly by Kristen Chandler was a cute story with a beautiful setting that makes me miss Utah. The whole time the main character, Myra, is musing and plotting on how to leave her state, I was reveling in the descriptive landscapes and scenery that the author wonderfully injected into the book. Myra is a senior in high school and she has just been dumped by her golden-boy boyfriend. She's in a hard place, but it's a perfect spot for her story to begin. After being with someone for so long and having no real friends of her own and nothing but responsibilities and family drama at home, she's learning to find her niche in the world. She applies for a scholarship to study birds far away on the Galapagos Islands. The simple act of applying and stepping out of her comfort zone helps Myra evolve and transform as a character. I really enjoyed reading this process, and feeling inspired - like anything is possible and people can change if you really want to. I really loved the way that Chandler infused natural history and her love of wildlife into this story. It really stands out as more than just another YA novel. And I enjoyed it so much, I'm really looking forward to reading her other book as well, titled Wolves, Boys and Other Things That Might Kill Me.
    • 4/5
      This book was ok. I was intrigued enough to read the entire book and I guess the main character grew by the end of the book, but it seemed like she was still defining herself by her relationships with others instead of what was inside of her. Her parents need to have a stern talking to as does her sister. I'm not sure I would recommend this book, but it wasn't terrible.
    • 4/5
      Myra is stuck in a house full of little brothers, overworked parents and a pregnant older sister. Her boyfriend just dumped her and she quit her dead-end job at the ice cream parlor. All she wants to do is get out of her small Utah town, just like the gulls that visit the Great Salt Lake just a few miles away.When Myra finds out about a science contest that offers a trip to the Galapagos Islands as a prize, she decides this is her chance to escape. The trouble is, to enter the contest she not only has to come up with a winning research proposal but also $1,000 toward the cost of the trip. Even worse, her ex-boyfriend Erik is also trying for the prize, and he’s smart, rich and still makes her heart go pitter-pat.To further complicate things, the grad student who is assisting the students applying for the scholarship is charming, knows everything about birds … and thinks Myra is amazing. Will Myra come to see herself the way Pete does? Or will she give up her dreams to do what her family expects her to do? This is a smart, clever story about finding your wings and balancing your duty to your family and to yourself. And birds. Lots of birds.
    • 2/5
      Well written, but very predictable with an unbelievable ending that does nothing to endear the story to readers. Recently dumped by her boyfriend and continuously taken advantage of by her overworked and chaotic family, self proclaimed doormat Myra enters a contest to win a trip to conduct research in the Galapagos. Although her pining for her ex-boyfriend is believable, her entering the contest in spite of her failure to believe in herself is not. The "climax" of the book goes on too long and is virtually unbelievable. Not a great read.