Keeping You a Secret
2003 young adult novel by Julie Anne Peters / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.
Author | Julie Anne Peters |
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Language | English |
Genre | Young adult novel |
Publisher | Little, Brown |
Publication date | 2003 |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | Print (hardcover and paperback) |
Pages | 250 pg |
ISBN | 0-316-00985-7 |
OCLC | 59282187 |
The novel is about Holland, a 17-year-old girl, 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.
Keeping You a Secret was a finalist for the 2004 Lambda Literary Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature and Stonewall Book Award.