I'm Not Convinced

by Beth Goobie

How can eighth-grader Sharon Frejer leave painful memories behind when panic confronts her every day? How will she adjust to a new school? All she wants is to disappear. But new friends have different plans for her. Now she's free to examine the "truth" behind the viscous names she's been called for as long as she can remember.

143 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1997

About the author

Beth Goobie is best known for her quirky and dark young adult novels. She's published several of them, beginning in 1994. Her novel Before Wings won the Canadian Library Association's Young Adult Book Award in 2000, and was chosen by young readers for the Best Books list of the American Library Association.Much of the turmoil in Goobie's life has been laid bare in two books for adult readers, Scars of Light, which is autobiographical poetry, and The Only-Good Heart, a book of short stories. Both are built on the theme of cults, abuse, and emotional torture. They were, she says, both therapeutic for herself and a warning to others.