Philadelphian Jennifer R. Hubbard's first young adult novel The Secret Year is being promoted as a mix of Romeo and Juliet and The Outsiders. Seventeen-year-old Colt has been secretly seeing Julia, a girl from an upper-class neighbourhood, for a year. They never told anyone else about their relationship, especially Julia's boyfriend. When Julia dies in a car crash on the way home from a party, Colt has to cope with his grief while pretending that he never even knew her. He discovers a journal Julia left behind but can he deal with what he discovers about their intense relationship?

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