Little Black Lies
Tish Cohen
Paperback
(HarperTrophy, May 17, 2011)
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?
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