03425cam a2200745 i 4500 603704101 TxAuBib 20220902120000.0 190711s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2019909484 9781646140008 hardback 1646140001 hardback TxAuBib rda Nayeri, Daniel, author Everything sad is untrue. Everything sad is untrue : (a true story) / Daniel Nayeri. Montclair, [New Jersey] : Levine Querido, [2020] San Francisco, California : Distributed by Chronicle Books LLC, 2020. ©2020. 356 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls "Daniel") stands, trying to tell a story. His story. But no one believes a word he says. To them he is a dark-skinned, hairy-armed boy with a big butt whose lunch smells funny; who makes things up and talks about poop too much. But Khosrou's stories, stretching back years, and decades, and centuries, are beautiful, and terrifying, from the moment his family fled Iran in the middle of the night with the secret police moments behind them, back to the sad, cement refugee camps of Italy, and further back to the fields near the river Aras, where rain-soaked flowers bled red like the yolk of sunset burst over everything, and further back still to the jasmine-scented city of Isfahan. 20220902. Michael L. Printz Award Winner, 2021. Nayeri, Daniel Fiction. Middle school boys Oklahoma Juvenile fiction. Immigrants Iran Juvenile fiction. Iranian American teenagers Oklahoma Juvenile fiction. Truthfulness and falsehood Juvenile fiction. Young adult fiction. Iranian Americans Oklahoma Fiction. Refugees Iran Fiction. Refugees Oklahoma Fiction. Refugees Juvenile fiction. Refugees Fiction. Mothers and sons Fiction. Storytelling Fiction. Storytelling Juvenile fiction. Family life Iran Fiction. Family life Fiction. Middle schools Fiction. JUVENILE FICTION / Biographical / General. JUVENILE FICTION / Family / Multigenerational. JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Emigration & Immigration. Families. Immigrants. Iranian American teenagers. Middle school boys. Truthfulness and falsehood. Iranians Juvenile fiction. Iranians Fiction. Family Juvenile fiction. School stories. Middle school students Juvenile fiction. Middle school students Fiction. Oklahoma Fiction. Oklahoma Juvenile fiction. Iran. Oklahoma. Domestic fiction. Fiction. Young adult works. Domestic fiction.