At the camp, Cameron comes face to face with the cost of denying her true identity. When she’s eventually outed, her aunt sends her to God’s Promise, a religious conversion camp that is supposed to “cure” her homosexuality. There she falls in love with her best friend, a beautiful cowgirl. Orphaned, Cameron comes to live with her old-fashioned grandmother and ultraconservative aunt Ruth. Their deaths mean they will never learn the truth she eventually comes to - that she’s gay. Cameron Post feels a mix of guilt and relief when her parents die in a car accident. danforth’s The Miseducation of Cameron Post is a powerful and widely acclaimed YA coming-of-age novel in the tradition of the classic Annie on My Mind. Set in rural Montana in the early 1990s, emily m. Morris Young Adult Debut Award, and was named a winner in the young adult category of the 2013 Lamba Literary Awards. Published by Balzar + Bray (an imprint of HarperCollins), it won the 2012 Montana Book Award, was a finalist for the William C. danforth’s The Miseducation of Cameron Post made quite a splash when it was published in 2012. Review Source: American Indians in Children’s LiteratureĮmily m.
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