If I Tell
by:
Janet Gurtler (author)
"It was like watching a train wreck. I wanted to look away but couldn't take my eyes off them."IF ONLY ...If only I hadn't gone to that party. I never would have seen what I did. Jackson wouldn't have driven me home. I wouldn't have started to fall for a guy just out of reform school. I could go...
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"It was like watching a train wreck. I wanted to look away but couldn't take my eyes off them."IF ONLY ...If only I hadn't gone to that party. I never would have seen what I did. Jackson wouldn't have driven me home. I wouldn't have started to fall for a guy just out of reform school. I could go back to pretending everything was normal. I wouldn't be keeping a secret from my mom that could blow our family apart ..."Gutler's writing unfurls with the exquisite grace of a flower." – Sarah Ockler, bestselling author of Fixing Delilah and Twenty Boy Summer
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781402261039 (1402261039)
Publish date: October 1st 2011
Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Teen,
Realistic Fiction,
Romance,
Family,
Coming Of Age,
Contemporary,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit,
High School,
Young Adult Contemporary
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Originally posted at my blog Chasing Empty PavementsThis book was one of those books where I enjoyed it half the time and hated it the other half. There were some parts that I thought were done so well and then there were some things that I thought were kind of off base. The Good: I think Gurtler ha...
Reviewed at http://www.mandikayereads.com/archives/190
I thought this YA novel was well-paced, well-written, and original. I was reading it late at night, and I meant to go to sleep and polish it off the next day, but instead I stayed up late to finish it. If I Tell is about a girl who finds her mother's boyfriend making out with her best friend, and sh...
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