- Mothers and sons, Child abuse, Abused children, Juvenile fiction
Fourteen-year-old John creates alternative realities in his mind as he tries to deal with his mother's abusive boyfriend, his crush on a beautiful, but shallow classmate and other problems at school.
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Earnest, contemporary, spare and grave.
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- contemporarynostalgic
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- David Klass
- First published
- September 5, 2002
- Pages
- 267
- Publisher
- Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media, HarperTeen, E-Viking childrens books
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781402584671
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First sentence
“You don't know me.”
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