Please Don't Hug Me

Author: Kerr, Kay

Publisher: Melbourne, Australia: Text Publishing Company 2020

 In this own voices story Erin is the girl who is completing her last year of year 12. She lost her job and it was not her fault. 

She planned to go to schoolies but due to loosing her job she didn’t have enough money for the trip. Everything seems to go wrong, including her relationship with her boyfriend. She didn’t have a choice and she started to write to her brother who left home due to  misunderstanding from his parents a year ago.  Please don’t hug me is a coming-of-age novel where Erin is telling her life story through the letters to her brother Rudy and explain how one high school girl can feel while she finding difficulties at current stage. It is a format letter and  recommend  everyone to read it. Do not include first person “I” in your annotation.  

Labels and tags:  autism, young adult fiction ,contemporary, friendship, letter writing,  

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