The Miseducation of Cameron Post
emily m. danforth,NOOK Book (eBook), English-language edition,Pub by HarperCollins Publishers on 02-07-2012
emily m. danforth,NOOK Book (eBook), English-language edition,Pub by HarperCollins Publishers on 02-07-2012
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780062101969 (006210196X)
Publish date: February 7th 2012
Publisher: Balzer & Bray
Pages no: 354
Edition language: English
Nuanced, realistic fiction that feels like the best books I discovered as a teen in the 90s - which were books written and marketed to adults. This is much more an adult novel than a YA novel in terms of its scope, although it's about a teen. A lot of that has to do with how it's written in hindsig...
I honestly wish more YA LGBTQA novels were written like this, the author did an amazing job at bringing Cameron to life. Danforth shows Cameron exploring her sexuality without completely ignoring the other parts that make her who she is. Cameron spends just as much time dealing with her grief over l...
DNF at page 77 Beautiful writing. But I kinda lost interest. So I'm DNFing it for now. Maybe I'll come back to it.
"I told myself that I didn’t believe any of that shit, but there it was, repeated to me day after day after day. And when you’re surrounded by a bunch of mostly strangers experiencing the same thing, unable to call home, tethered to routine on ranchland miles away from anybody who might have known y...
Read for Banned Books Week. The Miseducation of Cameron Post became the center of controversy earlier this year when it was banned by the Cape Henlopen School Board from the 9th grade reading list, after it was placed on the list by a consortium of librarians. Other books on the Blue Hen list incl...