Ages 13%E2%80%93up Agent: Caryn Wiseman, Andrea Brown Literary Agency.

By book's end, readers will feel like they have seven new friends. One of the fun things you can do while reading Riley Redgate’s new YA novel Seven Ways We Lie is to try to match up each of her seven narrators with the seven deadly sins, as the book’s cover, with its seven nametags-one for each of the deadly sins-invites you to do. Redgate writes with much insight into the complicated world of contemporary high school, revealing both its hard edges (the taunts of jocks toward an eccentric outcast, vicious rumor mills) and its tender underbelly (the loyalty of friends, the pain of a broken first love, the excitement of new romance). She currently lives and writes in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The seven stories and characters come together as the school reels from a rumor that a student is having an affair with a teacher. The teens%E2%80%94whose difficulties include being abandoned by a negligent mother, addiction, and self-loathing%E2%80%94tell their stories in alternating first-person narratives. Read Seven Ways We Lie by Riley Redgate for free on hoopla. This story of seven teenagers, all high school juniors carrying significant emotional baggage tied to the seven deadly sins, revolves around the pitfalls of hiding one's true self and the redeeming power of friendship. Noah brought seven of each clean male animal and seven of each clean female animal. For the unlikely allies at the heart of it all, the collision of their seven ordinary-seeming lives results in extraordinary change. Debut author Redgate neatly captures the heart, soul, and social intricacies of a high school in a conservative Kansas City suburb. File Type PDF Seven Ways We Lie By Riley Redgate The Golden Gate is one of seven entrances to the Old City that is currently blocked but will be opened when the Mashiach arrives. When that scandal bubbles over, and rumors of a teacher-student affair surface, everyone starts hunting for someone to blame.

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