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

Nayeri, Daniel, (author.).

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."-- Amazon.
Daniel Nayeri tells the true story (with poetic license) of his life as an 11-year-old Iranian immigrant in Oklahoma struggling to be understood. Young Daniel uses his only gift--storytelling--to explain who he is, both to his peers and to his readers.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781646140008
  • ISBN: 1646140001
  • ISBN: 9781646142729
  • ISBN: 1646142721
  • ISBN: 9781536481334
  • ISBN: 1536481335
  • Physical Description: 356 pages ; 22 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Levine Querido, [2020].

Content descriptions

Target Audience Note:
800L Lexile
Ages 10 to 13. Ingram.
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR MG 5.3 13 509792.
Awards Note:
Michael L. Printz Award -- Winner -- Young Adult -- 2021

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Middle school boys > Oklahoma > Juvenile fiction.
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Truthfulness and falsehood > Juvenile fiction.
Iranian Americans > Oklahoma > Juvenile fiction.
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Refugees > Oklahoma > Juvenile fiction.
Mothers and sons > Juvenile fiction.
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Middle schools > Juvenile fiction.
Oklahoma > Juvenile fiction.
Genre: Domestic fiction.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at McDowell County Public Library.

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