The Truth About You & Me

by Amanda Grace

Overview

Smart girls aren't supposed to do stupid things. On her first day at Green River Community College, Madelyn Hawkins meets Bennett Cartwright, her biology professor. He's funny. He's interested. And he has no idea that Madelyn is only sixteen. When they're together, Madelyn feels more alive than she's ever felt before. And she knows Bennett feels the same way. She also knows that if she tells him her real age, their relationship will be over. So Madelyn makes a simple decision. She won't tell him.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780738739571
Publisher:	North Star Editions
Publication date:	09/08/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	264
File size:	3 MB
Age Range:	12 - 17 Years

About the Author

Amanda Grace is an alias for Mandy Hubbard, who is the author of Prada & Prejudice, You Wish, Ripple (all published by Razorbill/Penguin), But I Love Him and In Too Deep (both published by Flux). In Too Deep has been named a Junior Library Guild selection. She is a literary agent for D4EO Literary, where she represents authors of middle grade and teen fiction. Grace is currently living happily ever after with her husband and young daughter in Tacoma, Washington. For more information, visit her online at: AmandaGraceBooks.com.

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Editorial Reviews

Recommended for fans of ‘forbidden love’ stories.” —School Library Journal


“Grace ... treats delicate issues with honesty and control.” —Publishers Weekly

From the Publisher

An honor-roll teen falls for her community college professor in this mawkish romance. Madelyn Hawkins, 16, is enrolled in a program that allows high school students to take college courses. The first day of biology 101, she becomes besotted with her young professor, Bennett Cartwright. At first, it seems destined never to be more than a crush, but then the two run into each other while hiking the hills of their Seattle suburb. From that point on, a romantic yet chaste relationship blossoms, as Bennett believes Madelyn is 18 and wants to wait until the course is over before he even kisses her. After many platonic dates, they consummate their perfect love only to have it fall apart when Bennett discovers Madelyn's true age. The story is written in awkward second person as a letter from Madelyn to Bennett after the end of the affair and includes details the character couldn't possibly remember like, "…a long tangled strand of my wavy dark-blond hair slid forward….For a split second, your eyes followed it down before you looked back at your computer." But despite the paper-thin characterizations and unimaginative dialogue, the topic and short length may be attractive to some reluctant readers. For more complex examinations of student-teacher affairs, readers should be directed to Barry Lyga's Boy Toy (2007) or R.A. Nelson's Teach Me (2005). (Fiction. 14 & up)

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