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It Happened to Nancy by Beatrice Sparks

It Happened to Nancy

By an Anonymous Teenager, a True Story From Her Diary

Beatrice Sparks

HarperCollins · Print & ebook · June 22, 2010

The editor of the classic GO ASK ALICE has compiled the poignant journals of a 14-year-old date-rape victim who contracted AIDS and died.

Surviving Sexual AbuseYA Illness & Disease StoriesLetters & Diaries for Teensromance
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Who it’s for
A raw diary voice that turns reading into eavesdropping, with very little distance to spare.
Genres
Surviving Sexual Abuse, Letters & Diaries for Teens, YA Illness & Disease Stories
Published
HarperCollins, June 22, 2010

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About this book

The editor of the classic GO ASK ALICE has compiled the poignant journals of a 14-year-old date-rape victim who contracted AIDS and died.

Diary Intensity

A raw diary voice that turns reading into eavesdropping, with very little distance to spare.

Come here for

  • Diary-form immediacy
  • A true-story voice with hard edges

Expect

  • Nonfiction shaped as personal testimony
  • Heavy material handled in an intimate, unfolding register

Where it sits

YA Illness & Disease Stories57%
Letters & Diaries for Teens47%
Surviving Sexual Abuse42%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • YA Stories About Boys & Men
  • YA Classics
  • Coming of Age
  • YA Family Stories
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  • YA Stories About Girls & Women
  • Contemporary YA Romance
  • Social Themes for Teens
  • Dating & Sex for Teens
Authors
Beatrice Sparks
Publisher
HarperCollins
Published
June 22, 2010
Format
Print & ebook
Reading lane
YA Stories About Boys & Men