Everything sad is untrue : (a true story) / Daniel Nayeri.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Montclair, [New Jersey] : Levine Querido, 2020Distributor: San Francisco, California : Distributed by Chronicle Books LLC, 2020Description: 356 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781646140008
  • 1646140001
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: Everything sad is untrue.DDC classification:
  • 813/.6 23
LOC classification:
  • PZ7.N225 Ev 2020
  • PS3614.A939 E97 2020
Online resources: Awards:
  • Michael L. Printz Award Winner, 2021
Summary: 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.
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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.

Ages: 12-17.

Grades: 7-12.

Lexile: 800L.

Michael L. Printz Award Winner, 2021

Accelerated Reader MG 5.3 13.

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