Everything Sad Is Untrue: (a True Story)
Everything Sad Is Untrue: (a True Story)

Everything Sad Is Untrue: (a True Story)

Written by Daniel Nayeri
Hardcover
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10 - 13
Reading age
368
Page count
233
Words per page
~829L
Lexile measure
Aug 25, 2020
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At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls “Daniel”) stands, trying to tell a story. His story. But no one believes a word he says. To them he is a dark-skinned, hairy-armed boy with a big butt whose lunch smells funny; who makes things up and talks about poop too much. But Khosrou’s stories, stretching back years, and decades, and centuries, are beautiful, and terrifying, from the moment his family fled Iran in the middle of the night with the secret police moments behind them, back to the sad, cement refugee camps of Italy.and further back to the fields near the river Aras, where rain-soaked flowers bled red like the yolk of sunset burst over everything, and further back still to the Jasmine-scented city of Isfahan. We bounce between a school bus of kids armed with paper clip missiles and spitballs to the heroines and heroes of Khosrou’s family’s past, who ate pastries that made people weep and cry “Akh, Tamar!” and touched carpets woven with precious gems. Like Scheherazade in a hostile classroom, Daniel weaves a tale to save his own life: to stake his claim to the truth. And it is (a true story). It is Daniel’s.

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      Daniel Nayeri

      Daniel Nayeri was born in Iran and spent some years as a refugee before immigrating to Oklahoma at age eight with his family. He is the author of several books for young readers, including Straw House, Wood House, Brick House, Blow: Four Novellas. He lives with his family in New Jersey.

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    Book Details

    ISBN
    9781646140008
    Publication Date
    August 25, 2020
    Publisher
    Levine Querido
    Page Count
    368
    Words Per Page
    233
    Audience
    Middle Grade
    Reading Age
    10 - 13 years
    Lib. of Congress (LCCN)
    2019909484
    Est. Lexile® Level
    ~829L
    Est. Fountas & Pinnell Level
    ~T
    ATOS® Book Level
    5.3
    Accelerated Reader® Points
    13
    Accelerated Reader Quiz
    509792
    Accelerated Reader Interest Level
    MG

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