Themes: Sexuality, School, Love
Characters:
Liza, Annie, Sally and Mrs. Poindexter
Summary:
Liza
is at the museum admiring the architecture and hears someone singing. She finds
the voice and meets Annie. They both are the same age but they attend different
schools. Liza attends Fosters, a private school and is the school’s student council
president. She finds Sally, a classmate, piecing students’ ears. Mrs.
Poindexter finds out and calls Liza into her office. Mrs. Poindexter suspends
Liza because she did not report the rule.
She
and Annie set up a meeting at Cloisters and they agree Liza will attend public
school with Annie. This is an eye opening experience, she see a boy with a
chain around his neck. Annie wrote Liza
a letter expressing her feelings about her.
During
Spring Break, Liza volunteers to house sit Ms. Widmer and Ms. Stevenson’s
house. Liza asks Annie to come over and
they discover the teachers are gay. Sally and Ms. Baxter come by and catch
Annie and Liza as well as the teachers’ living situation. The school fires the
teachers and let Liza stay in school. In the end, Annie and Liza brake up but
reconcile their relationship in college.
Staying
with the theme of the book (homosexuality), another book to follow up can be Even Keeping you a Secret by Julie Anne
Peters.
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