The Secret Identity of Devon Delaney

Written by Lauren Barnholdt

A summer of harmless lies comes back to haunt a girl when her new friend moves to town.

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272 pages· 54,142 words· Est. 6 hour read· 680L· AR 4.1 · 8 AR pts

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Over the summer, Devon Delaney told her new friend Lexi that she was popular back home and dating Jared Bentley, the most popular boy at school. Then Lexi shows up in Devon's math class, newly moved to town. To keep her story alive, Devon sets out to actually become popular, but the harder she tries, the more everything goes wrong with her family and her best friend.

From the publisher

Mom says karma always comes around to get you, and I guess it's true. Because last summer I was a total liar, and now, right in the middle of Mr. Pritchard's third-period math class, my whole world is about to come crashing down. That's because while Devon was living with her grandmother for the summer, she told her "summer friend," Lexi, that she was really popular back home and dating Jared Bentley, only the most popular guy at school. Harmless lies, right? Wrong. Not when Lexi is standing at the front of Devon's class, having just moved to Devon's town. Uh-oh. Devon knows there's only one way to handle this -- she'll just have to become popular! But how is Devon supposed to accomplish that when she's never even talked to Jared, much less dated him?! And it seems the more Devon tries to keep up her "image," the more things go wrong. Her family thinks she's nuts, her best friend won't speak to her, and, as if it's not all complicated enough, Jared starts crushing on Lexi and Devon starts crushing on Jared's best friend, Luke. It all has Devon wondering -- who is the real Devon Delaney?

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