TY - BOOK AU - Nayeri,Daniel TI - Everything sad is untrue: (a true story) SN - 9781646140008 AV - PZ7.N225 Ev 2020 U1 - 813/.6 23 PY - 2020/// CY - Montclair, [New Jersey] PB - Levine Querido KW - Nayeri, Daniel KW - Michael L. Printz Award KW - 2021 KW - Middle school boys KW - Oklahoma KW - Juvenile fiction KW - Immigrants KW - Iranians KW - United States KW - Iranian American teenagers KW - Truthfulness and falsehood KW - Young adult fiction KW - Iranian Americans KW - Fiction KW - Refugees KW - Iran KW - Mothers and sons KW - Storytelling KW - Family life KW - Middle schools KW - Iraniens KW - Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse KW - Mensonge KW - Roman pour jeunes adultes KW - JUVENILE FICTION / Biographical / General KW - bisacsh KW - JUVENILE FICTION / Family / Multigenerational KW - JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Emigration & Immigration KW - Families KW - fast KW - Family members KW - homoit KW - sears KW - Family KW - School stories KW - Middle school students KW - Biography & Memoir KW - Michael L. Printz Award winners KW - Fictional Work KW - Domestic fiction KW - Young adult works KW - gsafd KW - lcgft KW - Autobiographical fiction KW - Novels KW - Romans KW - rvmgf N1 - Ages: 12-17; Grades: 7-12; Lexile: 800L; Accelerated Reader; MG; 5.3; 13 N2 - 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 UR - https://www.ala.org/yalsa/printz ER -