Stone, Heather Duffy. This Is What I Want To Tell You. Flux. March 2009. ISBN: 978-0-7387-1450-9. Gr 7-11.

-- School Library Journal, 4/1/2009

This Is What I Want To Tell You is a story of two twins, their best friend, and how one summer apart can change everything. Nadio and Noelle are twins and the story’s narrators. Having both perspectives helps the reader understand how they’ve both grow up and grow apart in the process.

Throughout the book, Keeley, Noelle’s best friend, keeps a secret about her summer in England. Since her return she has changed and something about her is different. Farther into the novel, the reader becomes curious about her change in character and that curiosity compels one to continue reading.

I thought the cover was intriguing but didn’t reflect the contents of the book thoroughly. The cover was overly-dramatic about the contents of the novel. I liked the book and writing style, but the cover art and title were too blatant to be interesting.

This review is from a member of theTeens Know “Best" YA Galley Group of the St. Paul Public (MN) Library and the Metropolitan State University Library and Learning Center, a part of YALSA’s Young Adult Galley/Teen Top Ten Project, which uses 15 public libraries and school library media centers from across the country to provide feedback to publishers of young adult books.