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À 16 ans et tandis que son père accepte une promotion à Cleveland, April s'installe pour quelques semaines à Westport chez son amie Violet (Vi) afin de poursuivre et terminer son année scolaire sans changer d'école. Or, comme la mère de Vi part en tournée, les jeunes filles se retrouvent bientôt sans parents pour les surveiller. Les grandes adolescentes entreprennent alors de réaliser tout ce dont elles ont rêvé sans jamais oser le faire. Et tandis que certaines expériences sont plus fantasques que raisonnables, d'autres, plus risquées, mèneront April sur le sentier de l'amour et de la désillusion. [SDM].
Un roman léger féminin réaliste proposant de suivre la quête d'autonomie et les premières expériences amoureuses et sexuelles d'une héroïne débrouillarde qui tombe malheureusement dans les pièges du mensonge et de l'amour aveugle. Narré en un long flash black faisant suite à l'arrivée inattendue de son père chez Vi, où une soirée bien arrosée avait eu lieu la nuit précédente et durant laquelle bien des règles avaient été transgressées, l'adolescente en état de panique doit faire face à une situation bien embarrassante: le diagnostic d'une MTS. Une occasion, pour April, de poser un regard lucide sur sa vie. [SDM].
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Fiction, Interpersonal Relations in Fiction, Dating (Social customs), Self-reliance, Juvenile fiction, Conduct of life, Interpersonal relations, Sex, First sexual experiences, Children's fiction, Conduct of life, fiction, Interpersonal relations, fiction, Self-reliance, fiction, Connecticut, fictionPlaces
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2 filles + 3 garçons - les parents: 10 choses que nous n'aurions pas dû faire
2015, Le Livre de poche jeunesse
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Ten Things We Did and Probably Shouldn't Have
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Ten Things We Did (and Probably Shouldn't Have)
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2 girls + 3 guys + 1 house – parents = 10 things April and her friends did that they (definitely, maybe, probably) shouldn't have.
If given the opportunity, what sixteen-year-old wouldn't jump at the chance to move in with a friend and live parent-free? Although maybe "opportunity"
isn't the right word, since April had to tell her dad a tiny little untruth to make it happen (see #1: "Lied to Our Parents"). But she and her housemate
Vi are totally responsible and able to take care of themselves. How they ended up "Skipping School" (#3), "Throwing a Crazy Party" (#8), "Buying a Hot
Tub" (#4), and, um, "Harboring a Fugitive" (#7) at all is kind of a mystery to them.
In this hilarious and bittersweet tale, Sarah Mlynowski mines the heart and mind of a girl on her own for the first time. To get through the year, April
will have to juggle a love triangle, learn to do her own laundry, and accept that her carefully constructed world just might be falling apart . . . one
thing-she-shouldn't-have-done at a time.
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