{"id":238,"date":"2011-08-17T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=238"},"modified":"2011-08-17T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-17T14:00:00","slug":"almost-true-by-keren-david-fiction-london-gang-searches-for-witness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=238","title":{"rendered":"Almost True, by Keren David (fiction) – London gang searches for witness"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For Ty, the present-day is all a lie, as he tries to stay alive in the Witness Protection Programme<\/a> long enough to testify in a London gangland murder trial. Only his childhood memories are real…maybe.<\/p>\n

His mum Nicky has gotten herself into a slight complication, there’s a guy shot to death on the doorstep of their latest safe house, and even Ty’s memories don’t seem to be true<\/a> anymore.<\/p>\n

Bottling up his worry and anger, desperately yearning to reconnect with the one friend who understood him, Ty’s impulsive actions<\/a> may be the undoing of all the careful preparations made by the police and lawyers to finally bring down the ruthless London crime family<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This stunning sequel to When I Was Joe<\/a><\/i> brings the gritty realities of life for less-privileged London teens into sharp focus while faithfully taking us into the careening thoughts of a teen brain pushed to the brink<\/a>. You must read these two books – World Wednesday standouts!
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Book info<\/b>: Almost True \/ Keren David. Frances Lincoln Children’s Books, 2010. [author’s blog<\/a>] [publisher site<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Recommendation<\/b>: Finding a dying man on his doorstep, Ty knew that the London gang had found his latest \u201csafe place\u201d \u2013 so much for the Witness Protection Programme keeping him and his mum Nicky out of harm\u2019s way until he could testify at the murder trial.<\/p>\n

Ty\u2019s aunt snatches him out of the hands of the police, telling no one \u2013 not even Nicky \u2013 where she\u2019s hiding him. And suddenly, he\u2019s in the large home of the grandparents that he doesn\u2019t even remember \u2013 the parents of his dad, who left him and Nicky when Ty was very small. Nothing about this makes sense to him \u2013 why have his grandparents let him and Nicky live in near-poverty when they are rich? After all these years away, is his dad really coming to see him?<\/p>\n

The trauma and stress of leaving the school that knew him as popular Joe, where he finally had friends and was succeeding on his own, where no one knew his past \u2013 it\u2019s just too much for Ty, and the nightmares about the murder return. <\/p>\n

Will Ty\u2019s memories keep playing tricks on him? If he can\u2019t contact anyone outside, how will Clare at school know that he\u2019s okay? How did the crime family gang find him and his mum in their third hiding place? Is Nicky safe somewhere now? <\/p>\n

A contemporary story that just won\u2019t let you go, Almost True is the sequel to When I Was Joe \u2013 read them in order, and hang on, as Ty stays one step ahead of the killers\u2026 we hope! (One of 5,000 books recommended on www.abookandahug.com<\/a>) Review copy courtesy of the publisher.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For Ty, the present-day is all a lie, as he tries to stay alive in the Witness Protection Programme long enough to testify in a London gangland murder trial. Only his childhood memories are real…maybe. His mum Nicky has gotten herself into a slight complication, there’s a guy shot to death on the doorstep of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,51],"tags":[4,5,70,37,32,18,43,36,49,31,15,9,21,3,6,28],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-mystery","tag-belonging","tag-coping","tag-crime","tag-death","tag-england","tag-family","tag-growing-up","tag-independence","tag-memories","tag-non-us-author","tag-relationships","tag-school","tag-self-image","tag-teens","tag-travel","tag-villains"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}