num_pages: 262
description: Fourteen-year-old John lives with his single mother and her boyfriend, a man who is violent towards him whenever John's mother is not around. John believes that if he tells his mother about the abuse, she will side with "the man who is not my father". There's a lot of pain, humour and horror in this book before John resolves his relationship with his mother and lets her begin to know him.
language: English
title: You Don't Know Me
titlecomplete: You Don't Know Me
genres: Young Adult, School, Abuse, Coming Of Age, Teen, High School, Fiction, Contemporary, Realistic Fiction, Romance
ratings_count: 9044
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Vermont Golden Dome Book Award, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Michigan Library Association Thumbs Up! Award, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Gateway Readers Award
publisher: Gardners Books