THE PERFECT SECRET

Text/New & Bright. Blue embossed black linen boards/Fine. DJ/Fine (a human face with a tightly "zippered mouth" illustrated byWill Staehle --- meaning secrets can generate more problems), w/trace humidity stain to lower back edge. 2018 First Editon, 2nd Printing. Author Rob Buyea (1976 -), American children's fiction writer w/years of teaching experience, known for his Mr. Terupt series of novels which won the 2011, E.B. White Read Aloud Award. This book is devoted to secrets --- how withheld information & particulars (intentional or not) often to quell pain to the self & loved ones, can generate horrors when bits of secrets leak out!) In the 6th grade, the class learns their teachers, Mrs. Woods & Mrs. Magenta, did not speak to one another although they were related, but gave it no thought. Now, in the 7th grade, students learn that adults, in their own families, kept secrets from one another as well! 364 pgs. A sensitive tale that one can, when mouths are unzipped, with support from schoolmates, teachers & family and find peace as one treds the long road ahead.…