"A Lie For A Lie"

Robin Merrow MacCready is the author of Buried, recipient of the Edgar Award for Best YA novel. She teaches reading and writing to middle school students, and lives in Maine with her family.

MacCready applied the Page 69 Test to her latest YA novel, A Lie for a Lie, and reported the following:

A Lie For A Lie takes place over the course a summer in the life of seventeen year old Kendra. The story begins when she sees her father with a woman who is not her mother. Rather that confront him; she spies on him. On page 69, she and her friend Bo have just found out that the relationship is more serious that they thought. “He was trying to insinuate himself into her life, like he wanted it to last.” This is a great disappointment. The relationship doesn’t seem to be a fling. This is also about the time the reader is realizing that Bo wants his friendship with Kendra to be more serious than it is, but Kendra is crazy about another guy. He gives her a gift that reminds her of their childhood games together—not his intention. When she arrives home from being with Bo, she sees her mother dressed up and ready to go out. To her this is a sign that her mom is doing better emotionally and maybe her father’s bad behavior, if it’s found out, won’t be as damaging to her as she thought.

But not everything is as it seems…

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My Book, The Movie: A Lie for a Lie.

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