BEST FRIENDS TELL THE BEST LIES (Laurel-Leaf Books)

by Carol Dines

Book Overview

Fourteen-year-old Leah's loyalty and devotion to her emotionally troubled friend, Tamara, brings into focus some of her conflicting feelings about her mother's imminent remarriage and her own growing... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0440206758
• Release Date: June 1990
• Publisher: Laurel Leaf
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.

Customer Reviews

very underrated

I remember picking this book up in fifth grade and thinking it was going to be another incipit pre-teen novel. I was probably in detention or something and was flipping through whatever was in the classroom. I read a few pages and it was a lot darker than I imagined a book at my school would be. I was used to the struggling and emotional stories of Ann Tyler, thanks to my mother and the invention of the "book-on-tape." This story really did keep on par. Though it is about the tedious and rediculousness of middle school "best-friendship" There is a lot of emotional and social manipulation, honest predjudice, and errie phsycological disturbances. Although the book says something about "Leah's growing feelings for the Mexican-American..." it doesn't say how she seems him, at first, as stereotypical ogar. This is truely a facinating and compelling story questioning the legitimacy of friendship, love and emotions.