She Loves You, She Loves You Not
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| Rating | : | 4.18 (695 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0316078751 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-26 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Julie Anne Peters is the critically acclaimed author of Define "Normal," Keeping You a Secret, Pretend You Love Me, Between Mom and Jo, It's Our Prom (So Deal With It), and Luna, a National Book Award finalist. She lives with her partner, Sherri Leggett, in Lakewood, Colorado.
and will also respect Peters's choice to give Alyssa new hope."Publishers Weekly"Compelling, taut, and heartbreaking."The Bulletin. "The story of friends, family, and lovers will pull readers into the deeper themes of trust, rejection, and intimate secrets revealed."Booklist"A warm and substantive character study and a welcome addition to stories about LGBTQ teens."Kirkus Reviews"Readers will appreciate Alyssa's honesty as she slowly reveals the details of her desperate break-up with Sarah
Alyssa's story will speak to anyone who has known the joy and pain of first love and the struggle to start over again.. She had her family and her best friends and, most important, she had Sarah. Sarah, her girlfriend, with whom she dreamed about the day they could move far away and live out and proud and accepted for themselves, instead of having to hide their relationship. But disowned by her father and cut off from everyone she loves, she is forced to move hundreds of miles away to live with Carly, the biological mother she barely knows, in a town where everyone immediately dismisses her as "Carly'
"I haven't finished it but it's been so hard to" according to giselle719. I haven't finished it but it's been so hard to put down. I had to buy more books from this same author.. Powerful LGBTQ book for older teens She Loves You, She Loves You Not by Julie Anne Peters follows Alyssa, a girl who has been sent to live with a mother she does not know after being caught in bed with a girl by her father who is a homophobe. Alyssa takes a job in a diner, starts a relationship with a girl and has to get to know a mother whom she has never known and whom works various sketchy jobs including at a strip club. The author also reveals the details of the relationship that Alyssa had that ca. Sarah Dessen meets GLBT. Sarah Dessen meets GLBT. It's a sweet, wonderfully-written, coming of age novel with a lesbian main character. I'm a huge fan of Julie Anne Peters because she is able to convey so much emotion with her writing and she rarely sugarcoats things. Also, her characters are always incredibly memorable. In She Loves You, She Loves You Not, my favorite character was Arlo. He stole my heart, which is something one of her characters always manages to do when I'm reading Peter'