The Words We Keep by Erin Stewart

Title: The Words We Keep
Author: Erin Stewart
Genre: Young Adult; Realistic Fiction

Lily is still trying to process her own feelings and reactions after finding her sister, Alice, in the bathroom hurting herself three months ago. Lily has refused to go and visit Alice while she received treatment and is startled when she is told that Alice is coming home. Struggling to keep everything together and to maintain her façade of reaching perfection in all that she does (academics, track, taking care of her little sister), Lily feels like she can't tell anyone how she really feels. This is even trickier when a new student, Micah, enters school and starts talking about his time in the same treatment center as Alice, and Lily panics that her classmates might learn that Alice hasn't been in college this year.

Unwillingly partnered with Micah when her creative writing class combines with an art class for a project that just might give Lily a chance to get a scholarship for her dream college, Lily is confronted with complete writer's block. Micah promises to help her overcome her trouble writing, and Lily begins to share her true feelings all over school under the cloak of anonymity. Join Lily as she discovers the true power that embracing - and sharing - our words and facing the truth of our own emotions.

- Katrina

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