I like this idea-I do-but I can’t help but notice (despite the poetry aspect) you chose the exact same project as your older sister, Beatrice. I’ve lived in Tundra Cove since I was a child, but my family is from Kashmir with entirely different traditions and customs. I’m so glad to finally get your proposal! I adore the idea of using a GeneQuest DNA kit to discover your roots and find how ancestry shapes you as a person through poems. To: Cordelia Koenig Vidya Nadeer Re: Senior Project Application My parents created everything in the image You can pre-order The Truth Project ahead of its October release here. HarperTeen will publish The Truth Project on October 13th, and we have the exclusive cover reveal and an excerpt to share with you! Check out the gorgeous cover, and brace yourself for Medema’s stunning writing below.Ĭover design by Erin Fitzsimmons and illustration by Emma Leonard If your life began with a lie, how can you ever be sure of what’s true? Done, done and done.īut when Cordelia’s GeneQuest results reveal that her father is not the man she thought he was but a stranger who lives thousands of miles away, Cordelia realizes she isn’t sure of anything anymore-not the mother who lied, the life she was born into or the girl staring back at her in the mirror. Secondly, she’d put all that time spent not worrying about the project toward getting reacquainted with former best friend and longtime crush Kodiak Jones who, conveniently, gets assigned as Cordelia’s partner.Īll she has to do is mail in her DNA sample, write about her ancestry results and breeze through the rest of senior year.

For one, she wasn’t going to stress over the senior project all her peers were dreading-she’d just use the same find-your-roots genealogy idea that her older sister used for hers. Seventeen-year-old Cordelia Koenig was sure of many things going into her last year of high school. Here’s the book description from the publisher: It’s why I’ve been obsessed with the show Almost Family lately, and Medema’s novel in verse promises that same level of drama. And Dante Medema’s new Young Adult novel, The Truth Project? It’s one I can’t wait to inhale.Īs an adoptee, I’m drawn to stories about found and chosen families that explore what defines those complicated relationships. They’re books that can be both devoured and savored.

The wonderful thing about novels in verse is that you can read them in a single sitting-and then slowly read them again, getting lost in their beautiful language.

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