Lies We Tell Ourselves (Harlequin Teen)

Lies We Tell Ourselves (Harlequin Teen)

By Robin Talley

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Grades 9 - 12Grade 5n/a4.2105748

In 1959 Virginia, the lives of two girls on opposite sides of the battle for civil rights will be changed forever. 

Sarah Dunbar is one of the first black students to attend the previously all-white Jefferson High School. An honors student at her old school, she is put into remedial classes, spit on and tormented daily. 

Linda Hairston is the daughter of one of the town's most vocal opponents of school integration. She has been taught all her life that the races should be kept "separate but equal." 

Forced to work together on a school project, Sarah and Linda must confront harsh truths about race, power and how they really feel about one another. 

Boldly realistic and emotionally compelling, Lies We Tell Ourselves is a brave and stunning novel about finding truth amid the lies, and finding your voice even when others are determined to silence it.

Publisher: Harlequin Teen
ISBN-13: 9780373212040
ISBN-10: 0373212046
Published on 1/26/2016
Binding: Paperback
Number of pages: 416

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I loved this book and I think it would be good if everyone read it because it shows controversial topics from different points of view. Also, I liked the ending.