The Truth About Alice: A Novel [Paperback]

By the author ofMoxie, a powerful feminist novel that deals with slut-shaming, told through the perspectives of four small-town teens, about how everyone has a motive to bringand keepa teen girl down.

Winner of the Children's Choice Book Awards' Teen Choice Debut Author Award

Everyone knows Alice slept with two guys at one party. When Healy High star quarterback Brandon Fitzsimmons dies in a car crash, it was because he was sexting with Alice. Askanybody.

Rumor has it Alice Franklin is a slut. It's written all over the slut stall in the girls' bathroom: Alice had sex in exchange for math test answers and Alice got an abortion last semester. After Brandon dies, the rumors start to spiral out of control. In this remarkable debut novel, four Healy High students tell all they know about Alice-and in doing so reveal their own secrets and motivations, painting a raw look at the realities of teen life. But in this novel from Jennifer Mathieu, exactly what is the truth about Alice? In the end there's only one person to ask: Alice herself.

This title has Common Core connections.

Also by Jennifer Mathieu:
Devoted: A girl with a controlling, conservative family realizes that her life is her ownif only she can find the courage to fight for it.
Afterward: A tragic kidnapping leads to an unlikely friendship in this novel about finding light in the midst of darkness.
Moxie: An unlikely teenager starts a feminist revolution at a small-town Texas high school.

Praise forThe Truth about Alice:
Fans ofSpeakby Laurie Halse Anderson andSpeechlessby Hannah Harrington will welcome first time author Mathieu, who has crafted a realistic and hard-hitting debut. VOYA,starred review

A tough, unapologetic look at slut-shaming from a promising new voice. Booklist

Swift pace and lÄ