The Truth About Alice
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Average rating3.2
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Ratings9
Average rating3.2
Winner of the Children's Choice Book Awards' Teen Choice Debut Author Award Everyone knows Alice slept with two guys at one party. When Healy High star quarterback, Brandon Fitzsimmons, dies in a car crash, it was because he was sexting with Alice. Ask anybody. Rumor has it Alice Franklin is a slut. It's written all over the "slut stall" in the girls' bathroom: "Alice had sex in exchange for math test answers" and "Alice got an abortion last semester." After Brandon dies, the rumors start to spiral out of control. In this remarkable debut novel, four Healy High students tell all they "know" about Alice--and in doing so reveal their own secrets and motivations, painting a raw look at the realities of teen life. But in this novel from Jennifer Mathieu, exactly what is the truth about Alice? In the end there's only one person to ask: Alice herself. This title has Common Core connections.
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Alice is a teenager who is carrying more than her share of stupid other people's burdens. You can't help but think that she is the only mature person in the whole book, even when you want to yell at her for not standing up for herself - and then you finally get it that probably she's right.
In any case, the book is told by others' POV - you only get to hear Alice at the end - and it is sad in the way only teenagers can be.
