The Truth Lies Here
By (Author) Lindsey Klingele
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
HarperTeen
20th August 2018
United States
Young Adult
Fiction
813.6
Hardback
416
Width 140mm, Height 210mm, Spine 33mm
479g
Stranger Things meets Men in Black in this funny and eerie young adult novel.
WHATS GOING ON IN BONE LAKE THE TRUTH WILL SURPRISE YOU.
In small town Michigan, Penny Hardjoy, an aspiring journalist, teams up with the nerdy boy next door and the towns star quarterback to find her conspiracy theorist father after he goes missing and several other people turn up dead in the woods.
The deeper she digs, the weirder things start to get. Townspeople repeat the same phrasesverbatim. Men in black suits stroll around Main Street. Chunks ofPenny's memory go missing.
Pretty soon,her research leads her to the long-ago meteorite crash in Bone Lakes woods, and shes going to have to reconsider her definition of real if she wants answers. . . .
Klingeles spooky, sci-fi-tinged mystery reads like a YA X-Files in the best possible way. Booklist A surprisingly heartfelt coming-of-age story wrapped in a zany package. Kirkus Reviews [M]arvelous...a believable story for teens who love coming-of-age stories in the vein of Stranger Things or science fiction shows like The Twilight Zone or The X-Files. This one has great appeal for most teens who enjoy classic science fiction and a good mystery. School Library Journal A fun and entertaining read. Recommended. Teen Librarian Toolbox (SLJ blog)
Lindsey Klingele, author of The Marked Girl and its sequel, The Broken World, as well as The Truth Lies Here, was raised in Michigan and now lives in Los Angeles. She has worked in television, in addition to writing YA novels. You can visit her online at www.lindseyklingele.com.