Truth to Tell

by Nancy Bond

A 14-year-old girl journeys to New Zealand with her mother--a writer hired to help an aristocratic woman write the story of the mansion in which she lives. Resentful of her mother and their strange... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0689506015
• ISBN13: 9780689506017
• Release Date: May 1994
• Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
• Length: 325 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.8" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

An excellent book

This book, Truth to Tell, is about a young girl called Alice who is being dragged halfway around the world by her mother, who is going to help an eccentric old lady, Miss Emilia Fairchild, write a book about her house. Alice hates New Zealand, and more, she has a stepfather. She struggles to find out who her true father was, for she looks like Len,her stepfather, but how can that be? Her mother claims that her father was killed during the war, but why had she never met her father's parents? Mrs.Fairchild then says, "It's a wise father that knows his own child," and Alice has to find out who her father was, and, more importantly, who she is. I loved this book because it offers wonderful insight into a girl's struggles to grasp a situation that's out of her control and find out who she is.