The Boy I Love

Informationen zum Autor Nina de Gramont is the author of the acclaimed Meet Me at the River and Every Little Thing in the World as well as the story collection Of Cats and Men and the adult novel The Gossip of Starlings . Her work has appeared in Redbook , Harvard Review , Nerve , and Seventeen . Nina lives with her husband and daughter in coastal North Carolina. Klappentext When the boy you love asks you to keep his greatest secret, do you? A thought-provoking, achingly complex novel about prejudice and the many meanings of love from Nina de Gramont, author of Meet Me at the River, which Kirkus Reviews calls a "must-read." Fifteen-year-old Wren has been content to stay in her best friend Allie's shadow. It doesn't bother her that Ally gets the cutest guys, the cutest clothes, and even a modeling gig—Wren is happy hanging with the horses on her family's farm and avoiding the jealousy of other girls. But when Tim, the most intriguing guy in school, starts hanging out with Allie and Wren, jealousy is unavoidable, but not the kind Wren expects. Because even though Allie is wayyy into him and Wren hasn't flirted, not one little bit, it becomes increasingly clear that Tim prefers Wren's company above anyone else's. Tim's unexpected devotion comes at the exact time Wren's home life is about to be turned upside down. Her parents have just found out that the family horse farm is on land that was once a slave plantation and are struggling with whether to sell it. Wren aches at the thought of losing her horses and leaving town, but at least there is Tim...always a gentleman on their dates. Such a gentleman. Too much of a gentleman, even, and Wren begins to wish he'd be a wee bit less gentlemanly. And as Tim's church becomes actively homophobic, his pressuring parents don't understand why he won't help "spread the word,” and he's now a wreck. Then he tells Wren something he's never told a soul, and Wren must decide what she'll really do for love. Leseprobe The Boy I Love One I could tell you that the trouble between Allie and me started with Tim Greenlaw, but that wouldn’t be completely true. If I’m going to be honest (and what’s the point of telling this story if I’m not going to be honest?), it’s never been easy having a best friend who looks like Allie. Not that I’m the worst-looking girl in the world. I’m fine, I guess, if you don’t count my thighs, or the fact that I look way younger than my age. But really that seems like the tiniest little piece of it, because Allie was beautiful a long time before any serious problems cropped up. So I would have to say that the moment everything truly began to change was my run-in with the alligator. When I say alligator, I am not talking about a school mascot, or a stuffed toy, or some kid with a corny nickname. I mean the green and scaly variety, complete with eighty sharp teeth and two beady eyes. A real, live alligator, nearly seven feet long from head to tail. It happened at the end of my first day at Williamsport High. I’d been waiting for this day all summer, but let me tell you: huge disappointment. After six hours in that big brick building, I felt like I never should have left the Cutty River School. See, originally I’d switched schools so Allie and I could stay together, because she was switching schools, but once my parents said I could go, I got pretty amped up about it. So for weeks I’d been playing it through in my head, all the new friends I’d make, the cute new guys I’d meet, and all the fun we’d have. But that first day, the one single person who talked to me at all was Allie. I guess we should have figured that turning up as new sophomores in a school of about eighty million kids, where everyone else had started out as freshmen, would put us at a dis...

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Nina De Gramont, Nina de Gramont
• Verlag: Simon & Schuster USA
• Sprache: Englisch
• Altersempfehlung: 12 bis 99 Jahre
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erscheint: 30.09.2015, verspätet
• EAN: 9781442480575
• ISBN: 978-1-4424-8057-5
• Seiten: 288
• Thema: Kinder- und Jugendbücher