The Secret Identity of Devon Delaney

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A couple seemingly harmless lies flip a girls life on its head as she tries to fit in with her schools popular crowd in this hilarious and all-too-relatable middle grade novelnow with a reimagined look!

While thirteen-year-old Devon Delaney spends the summer with her grandmother, she tells her summer friend, Lexi, about how popular she is back homeeven dating the most popular guy in school, Jared Bentley. Devon is a total liar. Its all made up, but theres no way Lexi could find out the truth, right Wrong. On the first day of school, a new student gets introduced to the class: Lexi.

Now, Devon has to scramble to make her lies come true before Lexi realizes what huge fibs she told over the summer. How hard can it be to get popular fast Or to start dating Jareda boy shes never talked to before. Devon does what she can, but the more she tries to keep up her new image, the more things go wrong. Her family thinks shes nuts, her best friend wont speak to her, and even worse, Jared starts crushing on Lexi and Devon starts crushing on Jareds best friend, Luke!

If she wants to keep the people she really cares about, shell have to figure out who the real Devon Delaney is before shes gone too far.

Author Bio

Lauren Barnholdt is the author of the teen novels The Thing About the Truth, Sometimes It Happens, One Night That Changes Everything, Two-way Street, Right of Way, and Watch Me. She is also the author of the middle grade novels The Secret Identity of Devon Delaney, Devon Delaney Should Totally Know Better, Four Truths and a Lie, Rules for Secret-Keeping, Fake Me a Match, and the Girl Meets Ghost series. She lives in Waltham, Massachusetts. Visit her at LaurenBarnholdt.com.