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Devlin, Calla

Tell Me Something Real

294 pp. | Atheneum | August, 2016 | Trade ISBN 978-1-4814-6115-3 $17.99 | Ebook ISBN 978-1-4814-6117-7
(2) YA In 1970s San Diego, narrator Vanessa and her sisters accompany their mom, who has leukemia, south of the border to an experimental clinic. They befriend Caleb, who is also a patient, and Vanessa and Caleb develop romantic feelings for each other. A bombshell revelation about Mom's illness strains the family. Fully realized characters and lovely sentence-level writing make this an engaging debut.
Reviewer: Jonathan Hunt | Horn Book Magazine Issue: September, 2016

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