Tell It True
$26.96
- Hardcover
208 pages
- Release Date
19 October 2021
Summary
Lisa Rives had higher expectations for sophomore year. Her beauty queen mom wonders why she can’t be more like other 15-year-old girls in their small Alabama town. Lisa’s Dad, well, she suspects he’s having an affair with a colleague at his top-secret job. Her friend Preethy seems to be drifting away, and Lisa spends her schooldays dodging creepy boys and waiting to graduate. Then she finds herself in charge of her high school newspaper, which is the last thing she wanted—school newspapers are for popular kids and club-joiners, not outcasts like her, and besides, the stories are never about anything you actually want to know. But after accidentally tipping the scales in the school election, then deciding to cover a “real” story—the upcoming execution of a local man charged with murder—and becoming a surprise news story herself, Lisa learns some hard lessons about friendship and truth-telling. As Lisa navigates the dilemmas, challenges, and unintended consequences of journalism, she finds her life—and her convictions—changing in ways she couldn’t have imagined. Tell It True is a sometimes hilarious, sometimes devastating, always relatable coming-of-age story about the importance of speaking the truth in a world of denial and fake news.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781644210826 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1644210827 |
| Author: | Tim Lockette |
| Publisher: | Seven Stories Press,U.S. |
| Imprint: | Triangle Square |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 19 October 2021 |
| Weight: | 567g |
| Dimensions: | 146mm x 220mm |
| Audience Age: | 12-14 |
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Critics Review
Like the best journalism, Tim Lockette’s novel, Tell it True pulls no punches. It refuses to sugar coat the realities of being a teenager–family struggles, friendship, the feeling that you don’t belong–while also challenging readers to think about what it means to have integrity in a world that often rewards looking the other way. Laugh-out-loud funny and painfully real, Tell it True asks you to see the world differently–to give a damn. –Bryan Bliss, National Book Award Long-Listed Author of We’ll Fly AwayTell it True is a compelling look at what it means to seek the truth, no matter where it will lead. Its bold, clear-eyed heroine goes on a journey from cynical high school outsider to ‘real’ journalist, and her hard-won wisdom will stay with you.–Lindsey Klingele, author of The Truth Lies Here
Tim Lockette
Tim Lockette is a reporter, novelist and teacher of journalists. He has written for Teaching Tolerance, The Anniston (Ala.) Star and The Gainesville (Fla.) Sun, among other publications, and has done extensive reporting on Alabama’s death penalty. He is the author of the middle-grade novel Atty at Law. He lives in Alabama with his family.
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