Description
| Product ID: | 9781526654854 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Lies We Tell |
| Authors: | Author: Katie Zhao |
| Page Count: | 352 |
| Subjects: | Children’s / Teenage fiction: Thrillers / suspense, Thrillers (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage fiction: Relationship stories, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Racism and anti-racism, Romance & relationships stories (Children's / Teenage), Personal & social issues: racism & multiculturalism (Children's / Teenage), Interest age: from c 12 years |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating All Anna Xu wants to do as she starts freshman year at the local prestigious Brookings University is keep up her stellar academic performance, break out of her shell, be more social ... and investigate the unsolved on-campus murder of her former babysitter six years ago. And if that wasn't difficult enough, it seems that Chris Lu, whose family are the Xu's business rivals, is attending Brookings too. There's no way they can be friends. Until a vandal attacks the Lu's bakery and Anna puts the perpetrator's call sign together with a clue from her investigation into the cold-case murder. When a very specific threat is made to Anna, she is forced to team up with Chris to undertake a dangerous search into the hate crimes happening around campus. Can they root out the current threat or will the town's ugly history take them down? All Anna Xu wants to do as she starts freshman year at the local prestigious Brookings University is keep up her stellar academic performance, break out of her shell, be more social ... and investigate the unsolved on-campus murder of her former babysitter six years ago. And if that wasn''t difficult enough, it seems that Chris Lu, whose family are the Xu''s business rivals, is attending Brookings too. There''s no way they can be friends. Until a vandal attacks the Lu''s bakery and Anna puts the perpetrator''s call sign together with a clue from her investigation into the cold-case murder.When a very specific threat is made to Anna, she is forced to team up with Chris to undertake a dangerous search into the hate crimes happening around campus. Can they root out the current threat or will the town''s ugly history take them down? |
| Imprint Name: | Bloomsbury YA |
| Publisher Name: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-11-15 |
