The Truth About Twelve

Twelve-year-old Lindy Perkins desperately wants to get back to Philadelphia. She wants everything to be like it used to be before The Awful Thing happened and her whole life changed. But she’s stuck living in fancy Shelbourne, where all the kids are rich, and Lindy has to pretend that she is, too. But the worst thing of all is the secret that she has been hiding even from her own family. It is the secret of what she did that day – the day that changed all their lives forever. -- Book Flap

“…It’s a masterful performance, and the read is agonizingly suspenseful as the author gradually increases both the familial and social pressure on her fiercely struggling, down-but-not-out heroine….her depiction of the “crazy-upside-down roller-coaster ride” dynamics of 12 -- the friendships, rivalries, crushes, and little and big social slights -- is almost unbearably real as is her sympathetic understanding of the human condition.” -- Kirkus Reviews

"Readers will appreciate the wonderful softball descriptions and infusions of suspense and humor..." -- School Library Journal