Keeping You a Secret
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| Author | Julie Anne Peters |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Young adult novel |
| Publisher | Little, Brown |
Publication date | 2003 |
| Media type | Print (hardcover and paperback) |
| Pages | 250 pg |
| ISBN | 0-316-00985-7 |
| OCLC | 59282187 |
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.[1] 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.[2][3]
See also
- Lesbian teen fiction
References
- ↑ Author's official website
- ↑ Keeping You a Secret, book profile on "LibraryThing"
- ↑ Peters, Julie Anne (2003). Keeping you a secret : a novel (1st ed. ed.). New York: Little, Brown.