Everything Sad Is Untrue : (A True Story )
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Montclair : LQ/Levine Querido, [2020].
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356 pages ; 22 cm
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
800L
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Teen Nonfiction / BIOGRAPHYT 923.252 / NAYER, D / everythiChecked OutMarch 30, 2024

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Published
Montclair : LQ/Levine Querido, [2020].
Format
Book
Language
English
Accelerated Reader
MG
Level 5.3, 13 Points
Lexile measure
800

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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. We bounce between a school bus of kids armed with paper clip missiles and spitballs to the heroines and heroes of Khosrou's family's past, who ate pastries that made people weep and cry "Akh, Tamar!" and touched carpets woven with precious gems. Like Scheherazade in a hostile classroom, Daniel weaves a tale to save his own life: to stake his claim to the truth. And it is (a true story)"--
Target Audience
13+
Target Audience
800,Lexile.
Study Program Information
Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning,MG,5.3,13.0,509792.
Awards
Michael L. Printz Award, 2021

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Nayeri, D. (2020). Everything Sad Is Untrue: (A True Story ) . LQ/Levine Querido.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Nayeri, Daniel. 2020. Everything Sad Is Untrue: (A True Story ). LQ/Levine Querido.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Nayeri, Daniel. Everything Sad Is Untrue: (A True Story ) LQ/Levine Querido, 2020.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Nayeri, Daniel. Everything Sad Is Untrue: (A True Story ) LQ/Levine Querido, 2020.

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