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The truth as told by Mason Buttle / Leslie Connor.

Summary:

"Mason Buttle is the biggest, sweatiest kid in his grade, and everyone knows he can barely read or write. Mason's learning disabilities are compounded by grief. Fifteen months ago, Mason's best friend, Benny Kilmartin, turned up dead in the Buttle family's orchard. An investigation drags on, and Mason, honest as the day is long, can't understand why Lieutenant Baird won't believe the story Mason has told about that day. Both Mason and his new friend, tiny Calvin Chumsky, are relentlessly bullied by the other boys in their neighborhood, so they create an underground haven for themselves. When Calvin goes missing, Mason finds himself in trouble again. He's desperate to figure out what happened to Calvin and, eventually, Benny. But will anyone believe him?"-- Amazon

Record details

ISBN: 9780062491435
ISBN: 0062491431
Physical Description: 326 pages ; 22 cm
Publisher: New York, NY : Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2018]
Copyright: ℗♭2018.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Publisher, publishing date and paging may vary.
Target Audience Note:	310L Lexile. 310L Lexile Decoding demand: 81 (very high) Semantic demand: 99 (very high) Syntactic demand: 51 (medium) Structure demand: 86 (very high) Lexile
Study Program Information Note:	Accelerated Reader MG 2.7 8 193450. Accelerated Reader AR MG 2.7 8 193450.
Awards Note:	A Junior Library Guild selection (JLG.) ALSC Notable Children's Book, 2019 Chicago Public Library Best Fiction for Older Readers, 2018 Kirkus Prize Nominee for Young Readers' Literature, 2018 National Book Award Finalist for Young People's Literature, 2018 New York Public Library Best Books for Kids, 2018 Publisher's Weekly Best Middle Grade Book, 2018 Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award Nominee, 2020 Schneider Family Book Award Winner for Middle School, 2019