Guarding Secrets, Patrick Jones
Guarding Secrets, Patrick Jones
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Guarding Secrets

Author: Patrick Jones

Narrator: Book Buddy Digital Media

Unabridged: 1 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Lerner

Published: 01/01/2018


Synopsis

Everyone has secrets in high school. But no one has a secret quite like Camila Hernandez's.

For as long as Camila can remember, her mother has been in prison. And Camila has tried to make sure no one finds out. She avoids all friendships. She keeps to herself. Because if people get too close to her, they might find out the truth. And once they know, they will see her only as a criminal's daughter.

Sure, some of Camila's classmates also have parents doing time. But her mother isn't any ordinary criminal. Her mother is on death row.

Reviews

Camila has kept a secret all her life; she has been tossed around between relatives ever since her mom was incarcerated and sentenced to death for killing in cold blood. Now, in high school, she has a strait-laced, A-student boyfriend, but she still has not told him her secret. She's OK with ignorin......more

Goodreads review by Sara

Camila's mother is on death row. She now lives with her aunt and tries to avoid other teens because she doesn't want them to know her secret. There wasn't much of a storyline here, other than Camila coming to terms with her mother's fate and learning to let people care about her. Still, readers might......more