Things I'll Never Say : Stories about Our Secret Selves by Ann Angel (2015, Hardcover)

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PublisherCandlewick Press
ISBN-100763673072
ISBN-139780763673079
eBay Product ID (ePID)202512031

Product Key Features

Book TitleThings I'll Never Say : Stories about Our Secret Selves
Number of Pages320 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2015
TopicSocial Themes / Adolescence, Social Themes / Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance, General, Short Stories, Social Themes / Emotions & Feelings
GenreJuvenile Fiction, Young Adult Fiction
AuthorAnn Angel
FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight15 oz
Item Length8.1 in
Item Width5.6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceYoung Adult Audience
LCCN2014-944916
Dewey Edition23
ReviewsThe collection offers many worthy entries. -Kirkus Reviews Rather than providing tidy solutions to the characters' dilemmas, the stories focus on the feelings of entrapment and anxiety that go along with living a lie. -Publishers Weekly This collection will resonate with many young adults who have their own secrets as well as readers who vicariously live through the risqué lifestyles of others.... A very discussible title for fans of Chris Lynch's and Ellen Hopkins's hard-hitting realistic fiction. -School Library Journal, The collection offers many worthy entries. --Kirkus Reviews Rather than providing tidy solutions to the characters' dilemmas, the stories focus on the feelings of entrapment and anxiety that go along with living a lie. --Publishers Weekly This collection will resonate with many young adults who have their own secrets as well as readers who vicariously live through the risqu lifestyles of others.... A very discussible title for fans of Chris Lynch's and Ellen Hopkins's hard-hitting realistic fiction. --School Library Journal This new collection of short stories about secrets is an ideal combination of form and subject.... The balance and diversity that Angel has achieved here is marvelous, and nearly any teen who picks this up will find a bit of herself or himself--or at least a friend--inside these pages. A collection to treasure and share widely. --Booklist The assortment of approaches to the theme of our secret selves offers plenty of surprises for the reader. --Horn Book A thought- provoking collection. --Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books Older students who are ready for more mature topics will find these stories perfect for opening a discussion or individual pieces just might reach someone struggling with the same secret. --School Library Connection
Grade FromNinth Grade
Dewey Decimal[Fic]
SynopsisFifteen top young-adult authors let us in on provocative secrets in a fascinating collection that will have readers talking. A baby no one knows about. A dangerous hidden identity. Off-limits hookups. A parent whose problems your friends won't understand. Everyone keeps secrets--from themselves, from their families, from their friends--and secrets have a habit of shaping the lives around them. Acclaimed author Ann Angel brings together some of today's most gifted YA authors to explore, in a variety of genres, the nature of secrets: Do they make you stronger or weaker? Do they alter your world when revealed? Do they divide your life into what you'll tell and what you won't? The one thing these diverse stories share is a glimpse into the secret self we all keep hidden. With stories by: Ann Angel Kerry Cohen Louise Hawes Varian Johnson erica l. kaufman Ron Koertge E. M. Kokie Chris Lynch Kekla Magoon Zoë Marriott Katy Moran J. L. Powers Mary Ann Rodman Cynthia Leitich Smith Ellen Wittlinger, Fifteen top young-adult authors let us in on provocative secrets in a fascinating collection that will have readers talking. A baby no one knows about. A dangerous hidden identity. Off-limits hookups. A parent whose problems your friends won't understand. Everyone keeps secrets--from themselves, from their families, from their friends--and secrets have a habit of shaping the lives around them. Acclaimed author Ann Angel brings together some of today's most gifted YA authors to explore, in a variety of genres, the nature of secrets: Do they make you stronger or weaker? Do they alter your world when revealed? Do they divide your life into what you'll tell and what you won't? The one thing these diverse stories share is a glimpse into the secret self we all keep hidden. With stories by: Ann Angel Kerry Cohen Louise Hawes Varian Johnson erica l. kaufman Ron Koertge E. M. Kokie Chris Lynch Kekla Magoon Zo Marriott Katy Moran J. L. Powers Mary Ann Rodman Cynthia Leitich Smith Ellen Wittlinger
LC Classification NumberPZ5.T3176 2015

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