How do you define yourself? By your friends? Your family? Your boyfriend? Your grades? Your trophies? Your choices? By a single choice? From the author of the acclaimed Poisoned Apples comes a novel in verse about a young woman and the aftermath of a life-altering decision. Fans of Laurie Halse Anderson and Ellen Hopkins will find the powerful questions, the difficult truths, and the inner strength that speak to them in Ask Me How I Got Here.Addie has always known what she was running toward, whether in cross country, in her all-girls Catholic school, or in love. Until she and her boyfriendher sensitive, good-guy boyfriendare careless one night, and she gets pregnant. Addie makes the difficult choice to have an abortion. And after thateven though she knows it was the right decision for hernothing is the same. She doesnt want anyone besides her parents and her boyfriend to know what happened; she doesnt want to run cross country anymore; she cant bring herself to be excited about anything. Until she reconnects with Juliana, a former teammate whos going through her own dark places. Once again, Christine Heppermann writes with an unflinching honesty and a deep sensitivity about the complexities of being a teenager, being a woman. Her free verse poems are moving, provocative, and often full of wry humor and a sharp wit.
المزيد من الكتب الإلكترونية من نفس المؤلف (المؤلفين) / محرر
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