Learning to Scream

Learning to Scream

by KatyDerbyshire (Translator), Beate Teresa Hanika (Author)

Synopsis

Malvina is thirteen years old. She and her best friend, Lizzy, have taken over an abandoned villa, raised a pirate flag and waged war on the boys from the local estate. This is Malvina's story about last summer, but she has another story that's intertwined, a story she's ashamed of. She can't quite tell it yet, not to anyone, not even to Lizzy, or her big brother Paul. But Granddad knows her secret; he says it's just between them and no one else would understand. And then Malvina meets a boy. A boy she can trust; a boy she thinks she could fall in love with. But first she needs to learn how to scream!

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 144
Publisher: Andersen
Published: 04 Nov 2010

ISBN 10: 1849390606
ISBN 13: 9781849390606
Children’s book age: 12+ Years
Book Overview: This empowering book about a young girl learning how to get out of an abusive situation became the most talked-about teenage book in Germany last year.

Media Reviews
A book that gives courage. Courage to face the truth and speak it aloud. Clear, precise and poetic. -- Mirjam Pressler
A courageous and heartbreaking book, written in the unbelievably light and poetic language of a thirteen year old. * Die Zeit *
Life-affirming and uplifting * Wendy Cooling *
A sensitive portrait of girls between childhood and puberty. * Buch Tips *
This story of sexual abuse is an astonishing book which gives courage despite the depressing subject and is an appeal to parents and grownups to pay more attention to girls reaching puberty. * Literaturen *
Author Bio
Beate Teresa Hanika was born 1976 in Regensburg and is a photographer. From 1997 she worked for several years as a model in various European towns. She has been writing stories and poems since she was seventeen. She lives with her family in a small town near Regensburg. Her first novel Rotkaeppchen muss weinen won several awards including the Oldenburger Picture Book and Novel Prize 2007 and the Bavarian State Young Author Prize 2009.