A Very, Very Bad Thing
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc.
Publication Year
2017
ISBN
9781338118407
Pages
240 pages
Genre
realism
Format
novel
Item Type
Fiction
Annotation
Marley is comfortable with being gay in Winston-Salem, but he never had any real passions until he met Christopher, son of a bigoted television evangelist; the two become an inseparable couple until Christopher's parents send him to a religious program intended to "cure" him of being gay, and outraged Marley tells a very big lie--and then has to deal with the repercussions.
Grade Level
9-12
Diversity Topics
LGBTQ (Gender and Sexuality); Gay/Lesbian; homosexual; gay teenager
Main Character
boy
Race/Ethnicities
White
Family Formation
mother and father
LGBTQ+
male/male
Keywords
homophobia; truthfulness and falsehood; friendship; prejudices; suicide; parent and child; conversion camp; romance; dating
Diversity Impact
direct
STARS Citation
Self, Jeffrey, "A Very, Very Bad Thing" (2017). Diverse Families. 1286.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/diversefamilies/1286