Things I'll Never Say: Stories About Our Secret Selves
Edited by award-winning author Ann Angel, this anthology of short stories is told by some of the most innovative, compelling YA writers in the field.
Louise’s story, along with fourteen other amazing “secrets,” offer astonishing glimpses into the interior lives of young characters struggling to strike a balance between the personal and the private, the illicit and the approved, the individual and the group. What secrets are yours to keep? Which are the ones you need to tell? How will they change your life when you do?
Publisher: Candlewick
ISBN: 978-0763673079
Reviews
The collection offers many worthy entries. —Kirkus Reviews
Rather than providing tidy solutions to the characters’ dilemmas, the stories focus on the feelings of entrapment and anxiety that go along with living a lie. —Publishers Weekly
This collection will resonate with many young adults who have their own secrets as well as readers who vicariously live through the risqué lifestyles of others…. A very discussible title for fans of Chris Lynch’s and Ellen Hopkins’s hard-hitting realistic fiction. —School Library Journal
This new collection of short stories about secrets is an ideal combination of form and subject…. The balance and diversity that Angel has achieved here is marvelous, and nearly any teen who picks this up will find a bit of herself or himself—or at least a friend—inside these pages. A collection to treasure and share widely. —Booklist
The assortment of approaches to the theme of our secret selves offers plenty of surprises for the reader. —Horn Book
A thought- provoking collection. —Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books
Older students who are ready for more mature topics will find these stories perfect for opening a discussion or individual pieces just might reach someone struggling with the same secret. —School Library Connection
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