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Don't Tell Me What Happens

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  • Paperback

    320 pages

  • Release Date

    20 April 2027

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Summary

A dual-timeline mystery and queer summer romance as two boys set out on a sun-soaked adventure to uncover how someone else’s love story really ends.

Deliver this journal to Casey Rohner, wherever he is.

Sixteen-year-old Noah is dreading summer in Venice Beach - until he stumbles into Billy Goat Vintage and meets Tomo, the effortlessly cool skateboarder behind the counter. Buried in a box of old records, the boys find a sketchbook from the 1980s: the journal of teen artist Dieg…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780241728277
ISBN-10:0241728274
Author:Raphael Simon, Phillip de León
Publisher:Penguin Random House Children's UK
Imprint:Penguin Books Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:320
Release Date:20 April 2027
Weight:229g
Dimensions:20mm x 129mm x 198mm
Audience Age:12-19
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Don't Tell Me What Happens by Raphael Simon - ISBN: 9780241728277
129 × 198 mm
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Critics Review

Don’t Tell Me What Happens is tender and moving and FUNNY. Like so many of my most beloved books, it is rollicking, real, and bursting with humanity. Noah and Diego will live inside me for a long time. * Eliot Schrefer, New York Times-bestselling author of The Darkness Outside Us *

About The Author

Raphael Simon

Raphael Simon

Raphael Simon has come out twice: as gay at age eighteen, and years later as Pseudonymous Bosch, the no-longer-secret author of the New York Times bestselling Secret Series and Bad Books. Most recently, Raphael published The Anti-Book, the first book to appear under his own name.

Phillip de Leon

Phillip de Leon designs textiles by day, sings in jazz clubs by night, and has been drawing men in some way or other since he was fifteen. He is also the creator and illustrator of the darkly fabulous Ghastlies, an ongoing series of print stories for Alexander Henry Fabrics.

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