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Holly’s Secret
Nancy Garden
Farrar Straus Giroux
132 pages
Copyright 2000
MCMLS Call No.YA F – Gar
Library Catalog Summary: When she starts middle school, eleven-year-old Holly decides to become sophisticated and feminine, change her name to Yvette, and hide the fact that her two moms are lesbians.
Library Catalog Subjects:
Identity (Philosophical concept) – Fiction
Lesbians – Fiction
Schools – Fiction
Prejudices- Fiction
Holly tells her girlfriend:
You know, the person I’ve been calling Aunt Kate. She’s not my Aunt, she’s - um - my other mom. Will and I are adopted. And - um - Mom and KJ are gay...They love each other...like they were married...Then Mary said, very softly, It doesn’t matter. Are you gay, too?...I don’t think so...That wouldn’t have mattered either. (Page 125)
Holly tells her boyfriend:
...so what’s the big deal...Who cares if your parents are both women... (Pages 129-130)
Holly tells Linda:
...I don’t care about your moms. At least you’ve got two parents. I wish I did... (Page 131)


 


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