Don't You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey
Mrs. Dunphrey agrees not to read the private entries written in her students' English journals, thus Tish Bonner finds herself pouring her emotions into her book in an effort to relieve the pressures in her life that she feels she cannot discuss with anyone.
Mrs. Dunphrey agrees not to read the private entries written in her students' English journals, thus Tish Bonner finds herself pouring her emotions into her book in an effort to relieve the pressures in her life that she feels she cannot discuss with anyone.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780689800979 (0689800975)
Publish date: September 1st 1996
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
Pages no: 112
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Childrens,
Teen,
Academic,
School,
Realistic Fiction,
Juvenile,
Middle Grade,
Contemporary,
Sociology,
Diary,
Abuse
3.5/5 starsI read this book when I was in Junior High, it was one of those stories that I remembered vaguely but I knew I had liked at the time. It’s very short and in the format of journals assigned by Tish’s English teacher, Mrs. Dunphrey.Tish has been forced to grow up much faster than the normal...
Tish's English teacher, Mrs. Dunfrey, requires the students to write in a journal 3 times a week. She specifically said that if the students mark an entry "Do Not Read" she will not read it. At first, Tish distrusts the promise. She tests Mrs. Dunfrey by writing about harmless things that no one els...
This book kind of reminds me of Scrawl. But, you know, with a girl (right?). I don't remember it well, but it was good, yes.
I like diary books but this didn't do it for me.
I was sitting around tonight, putting off doing anything productive, when I picked up this book up off my shelf and started reading bits of it. I first read it in seventh grade, and I really enjoyed it at the time.Haddix deals with difficult subject matter in this book, more explicitly a girl abusi...
10 years ago
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