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The Almost Truth
The Almost Truth
The Almost Truth
From the author of Unraveling Isobel and The Education of Hailey Kendrick, a smart, romantic novel about a teenage con artist who might be in over her head.Sadie can’t wait to get away from her backwards small town, her delusional mom, her jailbird dad, and the tiny trailer where she was raised…even though leaving those things behind also means leaving her best friend Brendan. Sadie wants a better life, and she has been working steadily toward it, one con at a time. But when Sadie’s mother wipes out Sadie’s savings, her escape plan is suddenly gone. She needs to come up with a lot of cash—and fast—or she’ll be stuck in this town forever. With Brendan’s help, she devises a plan—the ultimate con—to get the money. But the more lies Sadie spins, the more she starts falling for her own hoax…and perhaps for the wrong boy. Sadie wanted to change her life, but she wasn't prepared to have it flipped upside down by her own deception. With her future at stake and her heart on the line, suddenly it seems like she has a lot more than just money to lose...

Book Details

Genre: 

  • Chick Lit
  • Fiction
  • Romance

Age Level: 

  • 12 and up
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A young teenager lives on the poor side. She is a con trying to make a living and wanting to get away. Her dad is in jail, and she and her mom live in a trailer park. She has a best friend who sticks by her through thick and thin, but he wants more. Then when she gets a bank statement she finds out all the money she saved is gone; she gets angry and tries to find a way to get it back. She wants to try the biggest con she will ever do, but will she do it? Even though there is lying, loss and gaining, and survival, she finds the truth.

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