SuitabookCreative ambition and privacy
Autumn enters an essay about her changing relationship with her brother in a contest and must consider whether publication would reveal family secrets.
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Claudia Mills - Author
This is a story about a young writer discovering that turning private family experience into public work can affect people she loves. It combines creative ambition with embarrassment, changing sibling closeness and a difficult ethical choice.
Twelve-year-old Autumn loves to write. She finds inspiration all around her, especially in Cameron, the dreamy boy in her journalism class who she has a major crush on. Then her older brother, Hunter, who used to watch out for her but has grown distant since he started high school, reads one of her poems about Cameron to Cameron's older brother. They make fun of it and she is devastated. Determined to show her brother how talented she really is, Autumn decides that she is going to become a published author - now! She writes an essay about her changing relationship with her brother, enters it in a contest, and wins, and her dream of publication is within reach. But if her essay is published, everyone will know her family's secrets. Is being published worth hurting those you love?
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Sign in for personalised guidanceThis is a story about a young writer discovering that turning private family experience into public work can affect people she loves. It combines creative ambition with embarrassment, changing sibling closeness and a difficult ethical choice.
Autumn enters an essay about her changing relationship with her brother in a contest and must consider whether publication would reveal family secrets.
Hunter used to watch out for Autumn but has grown distant since starting high school; her essay addresses their changing relationship.
Hunter shares one of Autumn's poems with Cameron's older brother, and they make fun of it, leaving Autumn devastated; she then seeks to prove her talent.
Pay attention to how the book handles the poem being mocked, Autumn's distress, her crush on Cameron, and the widening distance between siblings.
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