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Country United States Publication date 2003 ISBN 0-316-00985-7 Publisher Little, Brown and Company | 4/5 Goodreads Language English Pages 250 pg Originally published 2003 Genre Young adult fiction OCLC 59282187 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Media type Print (hardcover and paperback) Nominations Lambda Literary Award for Children's/Young Adult, Stonewall Book Award-Barbara Gittings Literature Award Similar Works by Julie Anne Peters, Young adult fiction books, Homosexuality books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Keeping you a secret by julie anne peters
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. This novel deals with mature themes. It is about a young girl (Holland, aged 17) 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.
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