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All the Truth That's in Me
Author:
Berry, Julie
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Class:
Fiction
Age: 12-19
Language: English
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LC: PZ7
Grade: 7-12
Print Run: 50000
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ISBN-13: 9780670786152
LCCN: 2012043218
Imprint: Viking
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Pub Date: 09/26/2013
Availability: Out of Stock Indefinitely
List: $17.99
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Hardcover
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Physical Description:
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273 pages ; 22 cm
H 8.5",
W 5.75",
D 1",
0.8875 lbs.
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LC Series:
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Brodart Sources:
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Brodart's For Youth Interest: Popular
Brodart's Insight Catalog: Teen
Brodart's TOP Young Adult Titles
Brodart's YA Reads for Adults
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Bibliographies:
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Middle and Junior High Core Collection, 12th ed.
Middle and Junior High Core Collection, 13th ed.
Middle and Junior High Core Collection, 14th ed.
Middle and Junior High Core Collection, 15th ed.
Senior High Core Collection, 19th ed.
Senior High Core Collection, 20th ed.
Senior High Core Collection, 21st ed.
Senior High Core Collection, 22nd ed.
Texas Tayshas Reading List
Young Adult Fiction Core Collection, 4th ed.
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Awards:
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BCCB Starred Reviews
Best Fiction for Young Adults
Horn Book Fanfare
Horn Book Guide Titles, Rated 1 - 4
Horn Book Starred Reviews
Kirkus Best Books
Kirkus Starred Reviews
Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People
Publishers Weekly Starred Reviews
School Library Journal Best Books
School Library Journal Starred Reviews
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Starred Reviews:
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Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
Horn Book
Kirkus Reviews
Publishers Weekly
School Library Journal
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TIPS Subjects:
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Mystery/Detective Fiction
Romance
Social Sciences/Sociology
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BISAC Subjects: |
YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Romance / Historical
YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Mysteries & Detective Stories
YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Violence
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LC Subjects:
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Community life, Fiction
Community life, Juvenile fiction
Selective mutism, Fiction
Selective mutism, Juvenile fiction
War stories
War, Fiction
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SEARS Subjects: |
Community life, Fiction
Mutism, Fiction
War stories
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Reading Programs: |
Accelerated Reader Level:
4.1
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Points: 9.0
Lexile Level:
640
Reading Counts Level:
3.7
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Points: 16.0
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| Annotations |
| Brodart's TOP Young Adult Titles | 09/01/2013 |
| An attack on the town stirs the secret truth within as Judith decides whether living in silence about the accident is still worth the risk. Judith hasn't spoken a word to anyone but her best friend and secret love about the accident that killed her best friend and permanently scarred Judith. When an attack threatens the town, Judith faces a crucial choice that could change everything. 288pp. |
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| Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books | 10/01/2013 |
| R. Gr. 9-12. Kidnapped from her small farming community at the age of fourteen, Judith Finch returned after two years only to find herself spurned by her family and neighbors when they discovered that she has been savagely robbed of her ability to speak. Two more years later, still burdened by the terrible secrets of her experience, silent Judith has become the perceptive observer of village life, though her attention is focused most keenly on Lucas, the boy she's loved from a distance all her life. When invading forces threaten to destroy the village, Judith uses her secret knowledge to save the day, but her revelations bring long-buried mysteries and simmering hatreds back to the surface. In the face of her persistent silence, the townspeople condemn her and cast further suspicion on the innocent Lucas, forcing Judith to finally reveal the truths she's been hiding in order to save herself and the person she loves most. An emotional journey conveyed in lyrical prose, this historical novel, set in an unspecified pre-industrial rural community, is also an absorbing adventure with elements of mystery and romance, providing a compelling mixture of the heart-wrenching and the heart-pounding. Brief, evocative chapters, often no longer than a passage, intertwine deeply personal narration with glimpses into Judith's tragic past, never lingering too long on any specific moment and slowly raising the suspense. The focused attention on Judith's perspective allows her to remain admirably resolute but at the same time sympathetically vulnerable, a strong heroine who still wants to be understood, appreciated, and even loved. This will be an excellent recommendation for fans of Salerni's The Caged Graves (BCCB 5/13), who like their girl-centered historical fiction with a heavy helping of sentiment, passion, and intrigue. AM. 288p. THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIV. OF ILLINOIS, c2013. |
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| Horn Book | 11/01/2013 |
| High School. Berry's (The Amaranth Enchantment, rev. 5/09) novel is set in fictional Roswell Station, a village that in its appearance and claustrophobic atmosphere seems to resemble an early American colonial settlement. Bit by bit, readers gradually learn "all the truth" from eighteen-year-old narrator Judith, whose present-tense description of unfolding events, along with memories of the past, tells a harrowing tale. She speaks directly (though only in her head) to Lucas, the boy she's loved since childhood. It's her close friendship with Lucas that has helped her survive both a traumatic two-year captivity by a man crazy with grief and her equally painful return home to a town that seems to blame her for the event. Judith can't defend herself: her captor cut out half her tongue before releasing her. Berry keeps her readers on edge, tantalizing us with pieces of the puzzle right up until the gripping conclusion. Those who care for such things will appreciate the book's names: Roswell connotes a place of conspiracy and controversy, cover-ups and hysteria; Judith's last name, Finch, is fitting (she loves to sing, then loses and recovers her voice); and Lucas, of course, is the light of her life. Readers racing through the story's murder mystery and thrilling romance may miss much of Berry's lovely, poetic writing; luckily, many will finish only to turn right back to the beginning, this time to savor a more leisurely paced, equally satisfying read. jennifer m. brabander. 274pg. THE HORN BOOK, c2013. |
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| Kirkus Reviews | 07/01/2013 |
| Eighteen-year-old Judith Finch gradually reveals the horror of her two-year disappearance in a stunning historical murder mystery and romance. One summer four years ago, Judith Finch and her friend Lottie Pratt disappeared. After two years, only Judith returned. Lottie's naked body was found in the river, and Judith stumbled back on her own, her appearance shocking the town--not just because she had returned, but that her tongue had been cut out, and she can't tell anyone what happened to her. Illiterate, maimed, cursed, doomed to be an outsider but always and forever in love with Lucas Whiting, Judith finds a way to tell her story, saying, "I don't believe in miracles, but if the need is great, a girl might make her own miracle," and as her story unfolds, all the truth that's in her is revealed. Set in what seems to be early-18th-century North America, the story is told through the voice inside Judith's head--simple and poetic, full of hurt and yearning, and almost always directed toward Lucas in a haunting, mute second person. Every now and then, a novel comes along with such an original voice that readers slow down to savor the poetic prose. This is such a story. A tale of uncommon elegance, power and originality. (Historical thriller. 12 & up). 288pg. KIRKUS MEDIA LLC, c2013. |
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| Publishers Weekly | 07/22/2013 |
| Ages 12-up. This melancholy tale of a village outcast unfolds through the thoughts of Judith, who was kidnapped, held prisoner, and maimed by her captor. Two years later, she has returned home at age 18, but because of her severed tongue, she cannot explain her misfortunes or the crime she witnessed the night she was taken. Most of the townspeople shun her, and even her own mother acts ashamed. In some ways, Judith's silence protects her, but hiding the truth puts her and others at risk. Encouraged by an old friend, Judith is inspired to try to regain some speech. If she can find the means and courage to communicate what she knows, she and other innocent victims might find a form of salvation. Written as Judith's internal monologue directed toward Lucas, the boy she loves, Berry's (The Amaranth Enchantment) novel is suspenseful and haunting. Her poetic narrative ("There's nothing so bright as the stream by day, nothing so black on a moonless night") will draw readers in, and the gradual unveiling of secrets will keep them absorbed. Agent: Alyssa Eisner Henkin, Trident Media Group. (Sept.). 288p. PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, c2013. |
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| School Library Journal | 08/01/2013 |
| Gr 8 Up. The village setting of this novel evokes the rigid religious communities of Colonial times, but Berry cleverly sets her story in an unnamed time and place so the protagonist's anguish and the town's mystery are the focus. Sixteen-year-old Judith is still in love with Lucas, even after his father held her prisoner for two years and violently silenced her by cutting out part of her tongue. Another girl went missing at the same time and her body was found washed down a stream. Only Judith knows the truth of what happened to Lottie, but her muteness leaves her an outcast in the village, even from her own mother, and the truth stays bottled up inside her. Told from Judith's narrow, troubled perspective, the story unwinds in taut chapters that peel back what happened two years before and gradually allows Judith to find her voice again. The austerity of the village and its harshly judgmental inhabitants help sustain a mood of dread. Judith does find tenderness in surprising places, and these secondary characters relieve not just her isolation but also offer readers moments of fun and promise as well. Lyrical language, a good mystery, and a compelling heroine-this is a page-turner with substance.--Martha Baden, Prescott Public Library, AZ. Susan Riley. 288p. SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL, c2013. |
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| BookPage | 10/01/2013 |
| Ages 12-up. The short, fragmented chapters in Julie Berry's YA debut, All the Truth That's in Me, fall like puzzle pieces, slowly revealing 16-year-old Judith's difficult, veiled story. It all begins with an early memory of an ocean journey, when Judith and a group of pioneering families traveled far from their homeland, finally landing and forming a small, insular community. Judith's childhood friend, Lucas, has long been the love of her life, and she relates her story as if speaking to him directly. However, in reality, Judith cannot speak to Lucas at all. When she was 14, Judith was abducted and held captive for two years. The details of her abduction--the man who seized her, the place of her imprisonment and the atrocities performed upon her--are revealed gradually. When Judith finally escaped and staggered back home, she was nearly dead and half her tongue had been carved out. A grim tone persists throughout All the Truth That's in Me, much like the prolonged hardship Judith and her community face as soldiers attack and secrets poison from within. It becomes increasingly clear that only Judith knows the truth that will bring peace and justice--if only she could speak it. Berry has created something unique in her story of fear and repression set in an unspecified time and place. Although Judith's loneliness and longing are almost unbearable, readers sense that she has the strength and intelligence to overcome her handicap. The ever-present violence is reminiscent of Patrick Ness' Chaos Walking series, but Judith's uncompromising love for Lucas will sustain the most romantic of readers. All the Truth That's in Me is a perfect emotional blend of horror and romance. Diane Colson. 288pg. BOOKPAGE, c2013. |
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| Booklist | 08/01/2013 |
| Grades 9-12. Like all things in this cunningly stylized novel, the setting is left undefined; a rough guess is mid-1800s America. The characters and plot, too, are mysteries in need of unfolding, and Berry's greatest accomplishment is jumbling the time line with confidence, thereby sprinkling every page with minor (or major) revelations. These trappings gild a not-that-unusual melodrama: 18-year-old Judith pines for Lucas, who has chosen another girl. Perhaps this is because Judith is mute, her tongue having been cut off by a madman--who just happened to be Lucas' father. A few frustrating misunderstandings aside, the story gracefully incorporates everything from the right to education to the horrors of war to the freedom that comes along with acquiring language. What will stick in most readers' minds, though, is the first-person prose, which ranges from the unusually insightful ("We were four people: the children we'd been, and grown strangers now") to the just plain pretty ("Will her china face turn bronze beside you as you labor in your fields?"). A strange but satisfying--and relatively singular--mix. Kraus, Daniel. 288p. AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, c2013. |
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| Horn Book Guide | 05/01/2014 |
| 1. Berry's novel is set in a claustrophobic village that seems to resemble an early American colonial settlement. Readers gradually learn "all the truth" from eighteen-year-old narrator Judith, who speaks directly (though only in her head) to her love, Lucas. Berry keeps readers on edge, tantalizing us with pieces of the puzzle right up until the gripping conclusion. jmb. 274pg. THE HORN BOOK, c2014. |
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| New York Times Book Review | 11/10/2013 |
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