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Name Me Nobody

by Lois-Ann Yamanaka · 1999 · 240 pages

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A powerful novel of friendship, family, sexuality, and identity from a unique voice in fiction in which 13-year-old Emi-Lou struggles with coming of age and middle school in Hawaii.

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Genre
LGBT
Themes
LGBTdiversityfriendship
Setting
1990shawaii
Audience
young adult
Length
medium · 240 pages

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