I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This
Book Details
Author(s)
Jacqueline Woodson
Publisher
Puffin Books
ISBN / ASIN
0142417041
ISBN-13
9780142417041
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Sales Rank
#470,855
Category
Juvenile Fiction
Marketplace
United States 🇺🇸
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Description
Jacqueline Woodson is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature
Twelve-year-old Marie is a leader among the popular black girls in Chauncey, Ohio, a prosperous black suburb. She isn't looking for a friend when Lena Bright, a white girl, appears in school. Yet they are drawn to each other because both have lost their mothers. And they know how to keep a secret. For Lena has a secret that is terrifying, and she's desperate to protect herself and her younger sister from their father. Marie must decide whether she can help Lena by keeping her secret... or by telling it.
Twelve-year-old Marie is a leader among the popular black girls in Chauncey, Ohio, a prosperous black suburb. She isn't looking for a friend when Lena Bright, a white girl, appears in school. Yet they are drawn to each other because both have lost their mothers. And they know how to keep a secret. For Lena has a secret that is terrifying, and she's desperate to protect herself and her younger sister from their father. Marie must decide whether she can help Lena by keeping her secret... or by telling it.
