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You don't know me: a novel

Fourteen-year-old John creates alternative realities in his mind as he tries to deal with his mother's abusive boyfriend, his crush on a beautiful, but shallow classmate and other problems at school.

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Main Author: Klass, David
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Frances Foster Books, 2001.
Edition:1st ed.
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Self-perception > Young adult fiction.
Child abuse > Young adult fiction.
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Summary:Fourteen-year-old John creates alternative realities in his mind as he tries to deal with his mother's abusive boyfriend, his crush on a beautiful, but shallow classmate and other problems at school.
Item Description:"Frances Foster books"
Physical Description:262 p. ; 22 cm.
ISBN:0374387060
Author Notes:David Klass is the author of many young adult novels, including Dark Angel and You Don't Know Me . He is also a Hollywood screenwriter, having written more than twenty-five action screenplays, including Kiss the Girls, starring Morgan Freeman and Ashley Judd, Walking Tall, starring The Rock, and Desperate Measures, starring Michael Keaton and Andy Garcia. Klass grew up in a family that loved literature and theater--his parents were both college professors and writers--but he was a reluctant reader, preferring sports to books. But he started loving the adventure stories his parents would bring home from the library--particularly Jack London, Robert Louis Stevenson and Alexandre Dumas. After his sister twice won a story contest in Seventeen magazine, Klass decided he would win it too, and when he was a senior in high school, he did, publishing his first story, "Ringtoss," in the magazine. He studied at Yale University, where he won the Veech Award for Best Imaginative Writing. He taught English in Japan, and wrote his first novel, The Atami Dragons , about that experience. He now lives in New York with his wife and two small children.

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