The Truth about Alice - Jennifer Mathieu

By the author of Moxie , a powerful feminist novel that deals with slut-shaming, told through the perspectives of four small-town teens, about how everyone has a motive to bring - and keep - a teen girl down. Winner of the Children's Choice Book Awards' Teen Choice Debut Author Award. Everyone knows Alice slept with two guys at one party. When Healy High star quarterback Brandon Fitzsimmons dies in a car crash, it was because he was sexting with Alice. Ask anybody. Rumor has it Alice Franklin is a slut. It's written all over the slut stall in the girls' Alice had sex in exchange for math test answers and Alice got an abortion last semester. After Brandon dies, the rumors start to spiral out of control. In this remarkable debut novel, four Healy High students tell all they know about Alice-and in doing so reveal their own secrets and motivations, painting a raw look at the realities of teen life. But in this novel from Jennifer Mathieu, exactly what is the truth about Alice? In the end there's only one person to Alice herself. This title has Common Core connections.