Nothing but the Truth by AviMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
I'm bribing my kids to read their recommended books for the summer from school by promising them lunch out if they read one. The idea was to get them to read their books and having a discussion while enjoying lunch out. My soon-to-be 8th grader opted for $5 instead, but he still had to disscuss it with me. It was an fast, easy read with "documents" and discussions in transcript form--no internal dialouge, no adverbs to describe how the person said something. What was interesting was how much information a conversation or letter could convey even without these descriptors. And it was a great book to use to discuss what the "truth" was, and how individual circumstances could change the "truth" people saw. It was also insightful to discuss "rules" and "rights" with my teen, and I was surprised by where his sympathies lay. This is such an easy read and yet has a lot of discussion points, I would recommend it for a teen book club.
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