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Be True to Me
Be True to Me | Adele Griffin
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From a two-time National Book Award finalist comes a riveting romantic drama about the gilded lives of the super-rich and the high price of fitting in. "This is a glittery gem of a book. I was utterly transported to Fire Island--to endless summer days, girls in sundresses, that rush you get the first time you fall hard in love. I fell so hard in love with this book." --Jenny Han, New York Times bestselling author of To All the Boys I've Loved Before It's the summer of 1976 on Fire Island, where feathered hair and the Bicentennial celebration reign. Jean, a sometimes cruel, often insecure, and always envious rich girl, is accustomed to living in her glamorous older sister's shadow. So when Gil Burke, a handsome newcomer with uncertain ties to one of the most powerful families in the exclusive enclave of Sunken Haven, notices Jean--not her sister--Jean is smitten. Then Fritz, a girl from outside the gilded gates who humiliated Jean in the Island's tennis championship last year, falls for Gil herself. Soon the girls are competing for much more than a tennis trophy, with higher stakes than either of them can imagine. Through the alternating perspectives of Jean and Fritz, Adele Griffin captures the angst of feeling like you don't belong and the urgency of first love with masterly prose and a sharp wit perfect for fans of E. Lockhart's We Were Liars. Praise for The Unfinished Life of Addison Stone: "[An] intricate, intoxicating novel." --The Washington Post "A gripping read with a seriously ominous ending . . . One of the most unique books I've ever read." --The Guardian "An acute examination of a young woman's troubled mind." --The Boston Globe "Readers will be fascinated with the novel and caught up in the drama right up to the end." --School Library Journal, starred review "A terrific experiment, something fresh and hard to put down. It gives a sense of both the artistic temperament and the nature of madness--and the sometimes thin line in between." --Booklist, starred review
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Teenreadsdotcom
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We're getting fall vibes from the covers of #BeTruetoMe and the Naked Heat Palette! This is what our reviewer had to say about #BeTruetoMe by @adelegriffin "BE TRUE TO ME would appeal to anyone interested in the works of Jenny Han and Jennifer E. Smith or even someone who is interested in wild summer flings amidst the groovy decade that is the '70s."

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JacintaMCarter
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jolovestoread
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Giveaway for a copy of this book over on my Instagram! Handle is the same as here. 💖😉 #betruetome #adelegriffin

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Xenatine
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This cover is so yummy 💛

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MidnightBookGirl
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Tomorrow night I get to host these three amazing authors at @FountainBookstore and I just finished Be True to Me. Loved it! Take two girls, one boy, a small island, shake it up and send it back to 1976 and you've got a riveting tale of the lengths we'll go to and all the ways we'll betray (ourselves as well as others) for live and ambition. All 3 books are fantastic and I'm so excited to meet the authors!
#AuthorSigning #Indiebookstore

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MidnightBookGirl
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Spending some time on Fire Island in the 1970s. Adele Griffin is coming to @FountainBookstore next week and I get to moderate her, Sarah Mlynowski and Jodi Lynn Anderson. So this totally counts as work! #CurrentlyReading #Lovemyjob #indiebookstore #AuthorSigning

tjwill Cool! This is on my TBR and I almost started it a couple days ago. Maybe it should be my next up! 7y
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Kaylareadsbooks
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Super excited to read this book over the summer. I LOVE contemporaries, especially during the summer. They are the best feel good reads.

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Jenryland
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Literary, love triangle, historical fiction, coming of age. A beautiful and tragic story set in the 70s

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MidnightBookGirl
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I loved hanging out at Workman/Algonquin this morning! We carry a lot of their titles at @FountainBookstore and we saw some great things today. And then they gave us some truly swanky swag! #BookExpo #BEA17 #NYC

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ReadingRants
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If you read one book this summer, make it this one. Dynamite. At Reading Rants: http://www.readingrants.org/2017/04/09/be-true-to-me-by-adele-griffin/

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BethFishReads
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Love everything @AlgonquinYR publishes. This is a kind of coming-of-age, first love, friendship and more set on Fire Island in 1976.

Librarylady I got this in the mail this week. Wanting to get to it soon, but the TBR pile just keeps getting larger. 8y
BethFishReads @Librarylady ain't that the truth! 8y
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JacintaMCarter
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#SpinePoetry #MarchIntoReading

Be true to me
Before the fall;
You will know me
Above all things.

EllieDottie Beautiful! 8y
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kathyellendavis
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Read this book SO FAST! It pulled me in right away and takes place in the summer of 1976. Jean's family always summers on Fire Island; Fritz always goes with her best friend and has always been sort of an outsider. Enter Gil, who is trying to fit in and has ties to a family on the island too. Both girls like him and the summer is sort of a fight over him with bigger consequences. A good discussion in privilege too. #youngadult #kidlit out in June.

Cinfhen 💕 8y
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Kelly
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Rocket and I enjoy books differently.

LeahBergen 😮 Is he a book-nibbler?? 8y
Kelly @LeahBergen yep! he takes after all the other animals in the house. 😂 8y
LeahBergen 😂😂 8y
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britt_brooke 🐰💚💚💚 8y
rubyslippersreads ❤🐰❤🐰❤ 8y
Tanzy13 🐰😊 8y
HiddenGemBooks When my bunny does that, I like to think it's just cause she's absorbing the story anyway. 8y
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Kelly
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Tuesdays are my most productive days, meaning I work so hard I look up and have been going for 6 or 7 straight hours. Taking a conscious break with the new Adele Griffin book and cup of tea.

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Kelly
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the New York City book haul, courtesy of Book Riot Live, The Strand, and my editor.