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

Nayeri, Daniel, (author.).

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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."-- 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.

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  • 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:
Ages 10 to 13. Ingram.
800L Lexile
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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Nayeri, Daniel > Juvenile fiction.
Middle school boys > Oklahoma > Juvenile fiction.
Immigrants > Iran > Juvenile fiction.
Iranian American teenagers > Oklahoma > Juvenile fiction.
Families > Iran > Juvenile fiction.
Truthfulness and falsehood > Juvenile fiction.
Iranian Americans > Oklahoma > Juvenile fiction.
Refugees > Iran > Juvenile fiction.
Refugees > Oklahoma > Juvenile fiction.
Mothers and sons > Juvenile fiction.
Storytelling > Juvenile fiction.
Middle schools > Juvenile fiction.
Oklahoma > Juvenile fiction.
Genre:
Domestic fiction.

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  • 70 of 86 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 4 of 4 copies available at Onslow County Public Library.

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  • 1 current hold with 86 total copies.
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Jacksonville Main Library JUV FIC NAYERI (Text) 36015001781992 Juvenile Fiction Available -
Richlands Branch Library JUV FIC NAYERI (Text) 36015001782016 Juvenile Fiction Available -
Sneads Ferry Branch Library JUV FIC NAYERI (Text) 36015001782008 Juvenile Fiction Available -
Swansboro Branch Library JUV FIC NAYERI (Text) 36015001782024 Juvenile Fiction Available -

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