# I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This

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- Book: [I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This](https://www.bookquiver.com/jacqueline-woodson/i-hadnt-meant-to-tell-you-this) ([I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jacqueline-woodson/i-hadnt-meant-to-tell-you-this.md))
- Authors: [Jacqueline Woodson](https://www.bookquiver.com/jacqueline-woodson)
- Publisher: nancy_paulsen_books
- ISBN: 978-01-4241-704-1
- Pages: 160
- Published: 2010-11-11
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Twelve-year-old Marie is a leader among the popular black girls in Chauncey, Ohio, a prosperous black suburb. She isn't looking for a friend when Lena Bright, a white girl, appears in school. Yet they...