- Juvenile fiction, Coming out (Sexual orientation), Lesbian teenagers, Lesbians
This groundbreaking book is the story of two teenage girls whose friendship blossoms into love and who, despite pressures from family and school that threaten their relationship, promise to be true to each other and their feelings. This book is so truthful and honest, it has been banned from many school libraries and even publicly burned in Kansas City.
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Earnest, classical in form, grave and spare.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- resolvedopen-ended
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About the book
- Author
- Nancy Garden
- First published
- 1982
- Pages
- 233
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), Random House/Listening Library, Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.
- Editions
- 15
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780374303662
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On Open Library, 26 have read it and 183 want to.
“Ms. Widmer, who taught English at Foster Academy, always said that the best way to begin a story is to start with the first important or exciting incident and then fill in the background.”
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