I Hadn't Meant to Tell you This
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Youth level.
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.
COMMUNITY REVIEWS
Historic Fiction for 6th Graders submitted by sdunav on June 17, 2017, 11:18am This middle-grade/young teen novel is about two eighth-grade girls who become friends despite differences in race and class. The setting – a small, mostly Black town in southern Ohio – and the characterization and historical detail are amazing. And although I guessed the “terrible secret” that Lena was hiding pretty early on, the book was still so very, very good and ultimately hopeful that I recommend it without reservation, for kids (especially girls) 12 & up.
PUBLISHED
New York : Delacorte, 1994.
Year Published: 1994
Description: 115 p. ; 22 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
READING LEVEL
Lexile: 740
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0440219604 (pbk.) :
0385320310 :
SUBJECTS
Race relations -- Fiction.
African Americans -- Fiction.
Incest -- Fiction.
Child sexual abuse -- Fiction.
Fathers and daughters -- Fiction.