I Hadn't Meant To Tell You This - Hardcover

Woodson, Jacqueline

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0399244999 ISBN 13: 9780399244995

Publisher: Putnam Juvenile, 2006

Synopsis

Marie, the only black girl in the eighth grade willing to befriend her white classmate Lena, discovers that Lena's father is doing horrible things to her in private. A Coretta Scott King Honor Book & ALA Notable Book. Simultaneous.

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Review:

Two girls: one white, one black; one abused, one protected, both missing their mothers. An unlikely friendship ignites between the two, and, in sharing their differences, both of their lives are transformed. Jacqueline Woodson won a Coretta Scott King Honor for this moving, tightly written tale of friendship, racism, and loss. In a starred review, The Horn Book calls it a "haunting and beautifully poetic novel."

From the Inside Flap:

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.
From the Paperback edition.

About this edition

• Publisher: Putnam Juvenile
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0399244999
• ISBN 13: 9780399244995
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 176