You Don't Know Me

Moving, wholly involving, original, and emotionally true, You Don't Know Me is a multilayered young adult novel that presents a winning portrait of an understandably angst-ridden adolescent.

John (My father named me after a toilet!) wrestles with the certainty that no one really knows him -- not in his miserable home, and certainly not at school. It's true that no one can guess his hidden thoughts, which are hilarious, razor-sharp observations about lust, love, tubas, algebra, everything. And then there's his home: his father ran off years ago, so he's being raised by his mother, who works long hours, and by her boyfriend, whom John calls the man who is not and never will be my father. This man is his enemy, an abusive disciplinarian who seems to want to kill John and, in a horrible final confrontation, nearly succeeds.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Square Fish
Published: 09/14/2010
ISBN: 9780312653026
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 8.08h x 5.46w x 0.76d
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 46861 / You Don't Know Me
Reading Level: 6.4 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 11