I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This - Softcover

Woodson, Jacqueline

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0440219604 ISBN 13: 9780440219606

Publisher: Laurel Leaf, 1995

Synopsis

Lena, a white girl, has been abused by her father and Lena's new African-American friend, Marie, faces difficult choices about what to do when she learns the truth. Coretta Scott King Award Honor Book. Reprint.

About this title

About the Author:

Born February 12 in Columbus, Ohio, Jacqueline Woodson grew up in Greenville, South Carolina and Brooklyn, New York and graduated from college with a B.A. in English. A former drama therapist for runaways and homeless children in New York City, she now writes full-time and has received The Kenyon Review Award for Literary Excellence in Fiction. Though she spends most of her time writing, Woodson also enjoys reading the works of emerging writers, encouraging young people to write, heated political conversation with her friends, and sewing. At one time, she made most of her own clothing, but now she makes mostly scarves and quilts for her friends.
Jacqueline Woodson began to consider becoming a writer when she was chosen to be the literary editor of a magazine in the fifth grade. Eventually, three books helped

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Laurel Leaf
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0440219604
• ISBN 13: 9780440219606
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback