Nothing but the Truth

By Avi

Subjects: award:Newbery_award, Fiction, general, Reading Level-Grade 12, Friendship, fiction, Large type books, Criticism and interpretation, Reading Level-Grade 9, High schools, grade:min:4, Reading Level-Grade 8, lexile_code:NP, Schools, fiction, Reading Level-Grade 7, Fiction, Children's fiction, grade:max:7, Reading Level-Grade 11, Newbery Honor, age:max:13, Juvenile fiction, Reading Level-Grade 10, Truthfulness and falsehood, fiction, Readers (Secondary), Schools, age:min:12

Description: (From Scholastic (publisher) website): In this thought provoking examination of freedom, patriotism, and respect, ninth grader Philip Malloy, is kept from joining the track team by his failing grades in English class. Convinced that the teacher just doesn't like him, Philip concocts a plan to get transferred out of her class. Breaking the school's policy of silence during the national anthem, he hums along, and ends up in a crisis at the center of the nation's attention.