An edition of I'll Get There, It Better Be Worth the Trip
(1969)
I'll get there, it better be worth the trip
a novel.
[1st ed.]
by John Donovan
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Thirteen-year-old Davy has a difficult time adjusting to his grandmother's death and life in New York with his erratic mother.
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Teenage boys, Families, Juvenile fiction, Interpersonal relations, Friendship in adolescence, Fiction, Boys, Homosexuality, Sexuality, Friendship, Alcoholism, History, Children's fiction, Adolescence, fiction, Interpersonal relations, fiction, New york (n.y.), fiction, Homosexuality, fiction, LGBTQ young adult, LGBTQ fiction before StonewallPlaces
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I'll Get There, It Better Be Worth the Trip: 40th anniversary edition
2010, Flux
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0738721344 9780738721347
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Thirteen-year-old Davy has a difficult time adjusting to his grandmother's death and life in New York with his erratic mother. He becomes close friends with a male classmate at his new school. The friendship later turns sexual, eventually causing Davy to struggle with feelings of guilt. It was one of the first mainstream teen novels to deal with homosexuality.
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| December 28, 2022 | Edited by MARC Bot | import existing book |
| November 9, 2021 | Edited by AgentSapphire | Edited without comment. |
| November 9, 2021 | Edited by AgentSapphire | Added new cover |
| November 9, 2021 | Edited by AgentSapphire | Update covers |
| April 1, 2008 | Created by an anonymous user | Imported from Scriblio MARC record |