Truth is
Seventeen-year-old poet Truth Bangura begins senior year unsure of life after graduation, but when she learns she's pregnant by her ex-boyfriend, she makes one decision she is sure about-an abortion. When Truth performs a poem about her decision and her emotionally turbulent home life, the performan...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Amulet Books,
2025.
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| Summary: | Seventeen-year-old poet Truth Bangura begins senior year unsure of life after graduation, but when she learns she's pregnant by her ex-boyfriend, she makes one decision she is sure about-an abortion. When Truth performs a poem about her decision and her emotionally turbulent home life, the performance is recorded and posted online for everyone to see-including her mother. |
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| Physical Description: | 461 pages ; 22 cm |
| Audience: | Ages 14 to 18. |
| ISBN: | 9781419776830 1419776835 |
| Author Notes: | Hannah V. Sawyerr is a poet and young adult novelist who was named the Youth Poet Laureate of Baltimore in 2016. Her debut novel in verse, All the Fighting Parts, was a William C. Morris Award finalist, a Walter Dean Myers Award Honor Book, a Rise Feminist Book Project Top Ten title, and a Kirkus Best Book of the Year. Her second novel in verse, Truth Is , was a finalist for the 2025 National Book Award for Young People's Literature and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature. Her spoken-word work has been featured on the BBC's World Have Your Say and in the National Education Association's "Do You Hear Us?" campaign, and her writing has appeared in Essence , xoNecole, and gal-dem. She holds a BA in English from Morgan State University and an MFA in Creative Writing from The New School. |
