TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nayeri,Daniel
TI  - Everything sad is untrue: (a true story) 
SN  - 9781646142729
AV  - PZ7.N225 Eve 2023
U1  - [Fic] 23
PY  - 2023///
CY  - [Montclair, N.J.]
PB  - Lantern Paperbacks, Levine Querido
KW  - Storytelling
KW  - Fiction
KW  - sears
KW  - Refugees
KW  - Oklahoma
N1  - School Library Journal starred, July 2020; Booklist starred, July 2020; Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books starre, July 2020; Pub Weekly, June 2020; Kirkus Starred, May 2020; New York Times, September 2020; Horn Book, November 2020; 5.3; 5-8; Follett School Solutions; Accelerated Reader AR; MG; 5.3; 13.0; 509792; BR
N2  - "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 he, his mother, and sister fled Iran in the middle of the night, stretching all the way back to family tales set in the jasmine-scented city of Isfahan, the palaces of semi-ancient kings, and even the land of stories"--Publisher
ER  -