True (. . . Sort Of)

By Katherine Hannigan
(Greenwillow Books, Hardcover, 9780061968730, 368pp.)

Publication Date: April 2011

Other Editions of This Title: Paperback

Categories: Social Issues - Friendship, School & Education

Selected by Indie Booksellers for the Summer 2011 Kids' Next List

“This is a book I want to hand to people and say 'just read it' because it is so difficult to put into words how truly touching and tender this story is. It's about a group of misunderstood loners, including one with a difficult secret, who find each other and are healed through friendship. Involved are a wonderful family, a secret 'hideaways,' a snarly cat, and even the game of basketball. Delly Pattison, an impossible-to-forget, self-avowed troublemaker with an imaginative and descriptive vocabulary, is the kind of character you'd like to leap off the page and into your life.”

-- Pam Stilp, Boswell Book Company, Milwaukee, WI

Description

True: Delly Pattison likes surpresents (presents that are a surprise). The day the Boyds come to town, Delly's sure a special surpresent is on its way. But lately, everything that she thinks will be good and fun turns into trouble. She's never needed a surpresent more than now.

True: Brud Kinney wants to play basketball like nothing anybody's ever seen. When the Boyds arrive, though, Brud meets someone who plays like nothing he's ever seen.

True: Ferris Boyd isn't like anyone Delly or Brud have ever met. Ferris is a real mysturiosity (an extremely curious mystery).

True: Katherine Hannigan's first novel since her acclaimed Ida B is a compelling look at the ways friendships and truths are discovered.

It's all true ( . . . sort of).

About the Author

Katherine Hannigan's first novel, Ida B . . . and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World was a New York Times bestseller, a Book Sense bestseller, and a Parents' Choice Gold Award winner. She lives in northeastern Iowa.

This book is on these lists:

Ilyser's Wish List by ilyser
Ideas for Kiddos by mvosmik
Bookwyrms's Wish List by bookwyrms
8knot8's Wish List by 8knot8
Rana73's Wish List by rana73
citylights98 book list continued by citylights98
Dyana's Wish List by Dyana
Rkuhn's Wish List by rkuhn
Donna23's Wish List by donna23
IndieGodess's Wish List by IndieGodess

All lists >>

- More Indie Next Lists -

	Flight Behavior Barbara Kingsolver Harper
	The Art Forger Barbara Shapiro Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
	Sweeth Tooth Ian McEwan Nan A. Talese
	The Light Between Oceans ML Steadman Scribner