She's The Liar
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- £7.99
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- £7.99
Publisher Description
A new dual perspective middle-grade novel from The Pros of Cons coauthor, Alison Cherry.When Abby enters sixth grade at her new boarding school, Brookside Academy, she is determined to reinvent herself. She sheds her shy personality and starts playing the part of confident, bubbly, popular "Abbi." She quickly learns about the Committee, an all-powerful student organization that controls nearly every aspect of extracurricular life. Whatever you do, you don't want to be on the Committee's bad side.Abby's older sister, Sydney, is in eighth grade at Brookside. At home she was always a loner, but Abby is shocked to discover that Sydney has also crafted herself into a new person at school-she's the president of the Committee, and she rules the entire student body through intimidation.Each sister is a threat to the success of the other's new personality, and things grow heated as Abby and Sydney try to outmaneuver each other for power and influence. But both girls have hidden motives, and they soon find themselves hopelessly tangled in a web of lies, schemes, and blackmail.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Two sisters coping with insecurities in dramatically different ways share the role of narrator in this incisive novel by Cherry (Willows vs. Wolverines). At a boarding school, the autonomous student committee exploits its power in decisions about campus life. Painfully shy sixth grader Abby arrives at Brookside Academy determined to "begin my brand-new life" as confident extrovert Abbi and finally make friends. Shedding her timidity remarkably effortlessly, Abbi braves an audition and lands a part in the school play, which is subsequently canceled by the committee, despotically controlled by Abbi's haughty eighth grade sister, Sydney. The story's psychological implications deepen when the narrative voice changes mid-novel, and Sydney reveals herself as a lonely outsider, feared rather than liked by her peers, who convinces herself that she has sabotaged the play to protect her sister from reliving the humiliating stage fright she experienced in third grade. Cherry gives each girl a compelling voice distinctive enough that despite Sydney's apparent vindictiveness, both characters emerge as highly sympathetic. A reflective story exploring self-honesty, courage, and redemption. Ages 8 12.
