{"product_id":"truth-is-isbn-9781419776830","title":"Truth Is","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the 2025 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the critically acclaimed author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eAll the Fighting Parts\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e comes an empowering and defiant novel in verse in which a teen poet grapples with an unplanned pregnancy and determines what happens to her body in a world that wants to take the choice away from her.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeventeen-year-old Truth Bangura wants nothing more than to know a life beyond her hometown. Writing and performing is her only solace in a life overwhelmed by a drifting relationship with her best friend, an emotionally turbulent home environment, and the reality that her below average grades make her true dream—escaping her mother’s grasp after graduation—uncertain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Truth learns she’s pregnant by her ex-boyfriend, she makes one decision she’s finally sure about: an abortion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDetermined to move forward, Truth turns to the pages in her notebook with the support of her slam poetry team—including the poet with a voice smooth as summer jazz, who’s been catching her eye during practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt an open mic night, Truth finally gains the courage to perform a piece that dives into her rocky relationship with her mother–and reveals the choice she never told her. But when a video of Truth’s performance is posted online and starts going viral, her decision quickly becomes everyone’s business–including her mother’s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTold through searing free-verse, journal entries, and interspersed fill-in-the-blank poetry prompts, Hannah V. Sawyerr’s \u003ci\u003eTruth Is\u003c\/i\u003e reminds us there is always a choice. There is always hope. And there is always a way forward.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harry N. Abrams","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47819546656997,"sku":"NP9781419776830","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/truth-is-isbn-9781419776830","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}