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To Be Perfectly Honest: A Novel Based on an Untrue Story
Contributor(s): Sones, Sonya (Author)

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ISBN: 0689876041     ISBN-13: 9780689876042
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
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Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: August 2013
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes - Dating & Relationships
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes - Adolescence & Coming Of Age
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes - Values & Virtues
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2012048563
Age Level: 12-17
Grade Level: 7-12
Lexile Measure: 850(Not Available)
Physical Information: 1.7" H x 5.9" W x 8.3" L (1.20 lbs) 496 pages
Themes:
- Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age
- Locality - San Luis Obispo-Atascadero, CA
- Cultural Region - Southern California
- Geographic Orientation - California
- Sex & Gender - Girl's Interest
Features: Ikids, Price on Product
Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2013
School Library Journal 08/01/2013 pg. 116
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 10/01/2013 pg. 115
Booklist 09/15/2013 pg. 77
Voice of Youth Advocates 10/01/2013 - Recommended - Readable
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2014 pg. 127 - Below Average, With Minor Flaw
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 164444
Reading Level: 5.4   Interest Level: Upper Grades   Point Value: 6.0
 
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Publisher Description:
Can honesty lead to heartbreak if the truth is subjective? A compelling novel in verse from Sonya Sones.

Her friends
have a joke about her:
How can you tell if Colette is lying?

Her mouth is open.

Fifteen-year-old Colette is addicted to lying. Her shrink says this is because she's got a very bad case of Daughter-of-a-famous-movie-star Disorder--so she lies to escape out from under her mother's massive shadow. But Colette doesn't see it that way. She says she lies because it's the most fun she can have with her clothes on. Not that she's had that much fun with her clothes off. At least not yet, anyway...

When her mother drags her away from Hollywood to spend the entire summer on location in a boring little town in the middle of nowhere, Colette is less than thrilled. But then she meets a sexy biker named Connor. He's older, gorgeous, funny, and totally into her. So what if she lies to him about her age, and about who her mother is? I mean, she has to keep her mother's identity a secret from him. If he finds out who she really is, he'll forget all about Colette, and start panting and drooling and asking her for her mother's autograph. Just like everyone always does.

But what Colette doesn't know is that Connor is keeping a secret of his own...


Contributor Bio(s): Sones, Sonya: - Sonya Sones has written five YA novels-in-verse: To Be Perfectly Honest (A Novel Based on an Untrue Story), Stop Pretending, One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies, What My Mother Doesn't Know, and its companion, What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know. Her books have received many honors, including a Christopher Award, the Myra Cohn Livingston Poetry Award, and a Los Angeles Times Book Prize nomination. But the coolest honor she ever got was when What My Mother Doesn't Know made it onto the American Library Association's list of the Top 100 Most Banned Books of the Decade (to see why, see p.46). She lives near the beach in southern California, and only tells the occasional fib. Visit her at SonyaSones.com or follow @SonyaSones on Twitter.
 
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