I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This

Description:

Marie, the only black girl in the eighth grade willing to befriend her white classmate Lena, discovers that Lena's father is doing horrible things to her in private.

subjects: African Americans,  Child sexual abuse,  Fathers and daughters,  Fiction,  Friendship,  Incest,  Juvenile fiction,  Race relations,  Sexual abuse,  Child sexual abuse, fiction,  Friendship, fiction,  Insects, fiction,  Race relations, fiction,  Children's fiction,  Fathers and daughters, fiction,  African americans, fiction,  Sex crimes, fiction