{"product_id":"hqnsingle-08159001","title":"Lies We Tell Ourselves: Shortlisted for the 2016 Carnegie Medal: First edition","description":"\u003cdiv id=\"hc-product-description\"\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e***SHORTLISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE MEDAL 2016***\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e***WINNER OF THE INAUGURAL AMNESTY CILIP HONOUR 2016***\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLie #1: I'm not afraid\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLie #2: I'm sure I'm doing the right thing\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLie #3: I don't care what they think of me\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt’s 1959. The battle for civil rights is raging. And it’s Sarah’s first day of school as one of the first black students at previously all-white Jefferson High.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNo one wants Sarah there. Not the Governor. Not the teachers. And certainly not the students – especially Linda, daughter of the town’s most ardent segregationist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSarah and Linda are supposed to despise each other. But the more time they spend together, the less their differences matter. And both girls start to feel something they’ve never felt before. Something they’re determined to ignore.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBecause it’s one thing to stand up to an unjust world – but another to be terrified of what’s in your own heart.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘The main characters are terrific in what is \u003cstrong\u003ea moving YA novel\u003c\/strong\u003e. 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