| Description |
356 pages ; 22 cm |
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age Children |
| Summary |
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. |
| Awards |
Michael L. Printz Award Winner, 2021 |
| Subject |
Middle school boys -- Oklahoma -- Juvenile fiction.
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Middle school boys. |
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Oklahoma. |
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Immigrants -- Iran -- Juvenile fiction.
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Immigrants. |
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Iran. |
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Iranian American teenagers -- Oklahoma -- Juvenile fiction.
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Iranian American teenagers. |
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Truthfulness and falsehood -- Juvenile fiction.
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Truthfulness and falsehood. |
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Young adult fiction. |
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Iranians. |
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United States. |
| Chronological Term |
2021 |
| Genre/Form |
Novels.
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Juvenile works.
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Autobiographical fiction.
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Domestic fiction.
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Fiction.
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Young adult works.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Nayeri, Daniel. Everything sad is untrue. Montclair [NJ] : Levine Querido, [2020] 9781646140022 (DLC) 2019909484 (OCoLC)1190756423 |
| ISBN |
9781646140008 (hardback) |
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1646140001 (hardback) |
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