Little Black Lies
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Initial publish date
- May 2011
- Category
- General, General
- Recommended Age
- 13 to 18
- Recommended Grade
- 8 to 12
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781443402729
- Publish Date
- Jun 2010
- List Price
- $9.99
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781554684625
- Publish Date
- May 2011
- List Price
- $11.99
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781554684618
- Publish Date
- Sep 2009
- List Price
- $14.99
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Description
Sara and her father are moving to Boston from small-townLundun, Massachusetts. She is going to attend Anton HighSchool -- crowned “North America’s Most Elite and Most BizarrePublic School” by TIME magazine and tougher to get into thanHarvard. The entrance exam is brutal: only 175 student are admittedout of the 11,000 gifted kids who apply. (The other 10,825Lesser Gifteds will live with their failure the rest of their lives.)
Because of the strict admission exam, no one ever transfersto Anton High. Except Sara. What makes her so special? Herfather has been hired as a school custodian. Which she doesn’twant anyone to know. And which gets harder and harder tohide when her father’s obsessive compulsive disorder starts attractingattention from all the students. Will all of Sara’s secretsbe uncovered?
About the author
Tish Cohen is the author of Inside Out Girl, a Globe and Mail bestseller, and Town House, a regional finalist for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book. Town House is currently in development as a feature film with Fox 2000, with Ridley Scott as producer. Cohen has also written three novels for younger readers -- The Invisible Rules of the Zoë Lama and The One and Only Zoë Lama, for middle-grade readers; and, most recently, Little Black Lies, for teen readers. Cohen has contributed articles to some of Canada’s largest newspapers, including The Globe and Mail and the National Post. She currently lives in Toronto. You can visit her online at http://www.tishcohen.com.
