It’s Not Like It’s a Secret is a young adult novel by Misa Sugiura. The book is about Sana, a Japanese American sixteen year old girl with a lot of secrets that she hides in a small lacquer box. Even though some of her secrets are really obvious she has a lot of trouble acknowledging and facing them. Everything changes when suddenly her dad moves her family across the country from Wisconsin to California, sort of confirming the secret that hangs over her family. In California, she finds it difficult to continue keeping all of her secrets to herself when her dad begins to not come home most nights and when she catches feelings for one of the best runners on the girl’s track team at her new school. I read It’s Not Like It’s a Secret because I saw it on a shelf at Barnes & Nobles and I thought that it sounded like a really interesting when I read the description. Once I started reading it, I couldn’t stop because Sana’s character is really relatable and well written. It has a good storyline and it was never boring. One of my favorite things about this book was how the author used poetry to help tell the story. It really helped to show how the different characters felt about what was going on in the story. Overall, this is a really good book and I would recommend it to anyone who likes realistic fiction books that have happy endings. -EPM, grade 10
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