Pretenders
Pretenders
By Lisi Harrison
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
Curriculum Subject: Personal Development: Individuality, Teen Life: Peer Groups/Popularity/Cliques, Teen Life: Personal Development
Grades: 7-17
Three girls, two guys, five secret journals.
The five most popular students at Noble High have secrets to hide; secrets they wrote down in their journals. Now one of their own exposes the private entries…
I am leaking these because I’m tired and I know you are too. The success bar is too high and pretending has become the only way to reach it. Instagrams are filtered, Facebook profiles are embellished, photos are shopped, reality TV is scripted, body parts get upgraded like software, and even professional athletes are cheating. The things we believe in aren’t real.
We are pretenders.