Learning to Scream

Malvina is thirteen-years-old. She and her best friend, Lizzy, have taken over an abandoned villa, raised a pirate flag and waged war on the boys from the local estate. This is Malvina's story about last summer, but she has another story that's intertwined, a story she's ashamed of. She can't quite tell it yet, not to anyone, not even to Lizzy, or her big brother Paul. But Granddad knows her secret, he says it's just between them and no one else would understand. And then she meets a boy. A boy she can trust; a boy she thinks she could fall in love with. But first she needs to learn how to scream!