Paperback, 250 pages
English language
Published Sept. 23, 2005 by Little, Brown Young Readers.
Keeping You a Secret
- ISBN:
- 978-0-316-00985-0
- OCLC Number:
- 436820034
- Goodreads:
- 272315
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Keeping You a Secret is a young adult novel by Julie Anne Peters. It was first published in hardback in 2003, and later in paperback in 2005. This novel deals with mature themes. It is about a young girl (Holland, aged 17) discovering her sexuality and what it is like to experience homophobia. What starts out as a confusing "girl crush" becomes a discovery of Holland's true feelings and coping with the concept of attraction to a member of her own sex. Other characters in the novel discover her crush and employ various means of physical and emotional abuse and violence, displaying strong homophobic behaviors.
Subjects
- Fiction dealing with sexuality & relationships
- Juvenile Fiction
- Children's 12-Up - Fiction - General
- Children: Young Adult (Gr. 10-12)
- Social Issues - Homosexuality
- Juvenile Fiction / Social Situations / Homosexuality
- General
- Fiction
- High schools
- Interpersonal relations
- Lesbians