Description: Targeted by their sexually predatory English teacher who threatens their promising futures, high school seniors Jordan, Nick, and Chloe hatch a desperate plan for both revenge and retribution: plot a murder so perfect that maybe, just maybe, they can get away with it.
Brief description:
Edward Kay is an author, screenwriter and television producer who has been creating children's television and books for more than 20 years. He has developed, produced and written kids' television programs for broadcasters including Disney, BBC, TV Ontario, CBC, Cartoon Network, Discovery Kids, ABC Australia and France Télévisions. He has also been a story consultant for Lego and Sesame Workshop. His nonfiction title Indigenous Ingenuity: A Celebration of North American Traditional Knowledge, co-written with Cree author Deidre Havrelock, received starred reviews from Booklist and School Library Journal and was named a 2024 NCTE Orbis Pictus Honor Book. His other titles have been finalists for both the Red Cedar and Hackmatack Awards. Edward lives in Toronto.
Review Quotes: "With honest depictions of bullying, sexual assault, grooming, power and politics, violence, and murder, Our Little Secret, the co-written debut from writers Edward Kay and Mikhael Klassen-Kay is a frank, few-holds-barred thriller that presses against the boundaries of young adult fiction ... Our Little Secret is a suspenseful thriller rooted in the realities of contemporary teenage life, with plenty of twists and a keen sense of morality that will have readers cheering (perhaps quietly) for the protagonists to get away with their crime. While intended for young readers, the novel will appeal to most adult thriller readers as well." Starred Review--Robert J. Wiersema "Quill & Quire"