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The Honest Truth

Written by Dan Gemeinhart

Center Grade, Contemporary
Expected Publication March 5th 2015
240 Pages
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In all the ways that thing, Marking is a normal kid. He'due south got a domestic dog named Swain and a best friend, Jessie. He likes to have photos and write haiku poems in his notebook. He dreams of climbing a mountain 1 day.
But in 1 important way, Mark is non like other kids at all. Marker is sick. The kind of ill that means hospitals. And treatments. The kind of sick some people never get better from.

So Mark runs away. He leaves home with his camera, his notebook, his dog, and a programme to attain the top of Mount Rainier, even if information technology'southward the terminal affair he e'er does.

The Honest Truth is a rare and extraordinary novel about big questions, pocket-size moments, and the incredible journey of the human spirit.

Mark is at breaking indicate. He's spent his life battling illness, missing milestones while beingness hospitalised. At present, he's had enough. With his domestic dog Beau, Mark is running abroad. Already living on borrowed fourth dimension, he believes that his final stand up will be on his own terms and decides he wants to climb Mount Rainier, a place he's only ever seen adorning a postcard. He's left behind his inconsolable parents and all-time friend Jess, the girl who has seen him at his best and worse, contesting affliction and dreaming of living a normal, and Cancer free being.

With Beau contained to a duffel handbag, he sets out for the streets of Seattle with nothing more sheer determination to attain the mountain. It'south non long before Mark is reported missing, his parents frantically wanting their boy home. The streets are no place for a boy and his dog, and finds himself beingness set upon by a pack of thugs. Now with no money and nursing his bruised and possibly cleaved bones, the law are following the latest lead in the instance of the missing male child with Cancer, unaware to Mark and his efforts to derail the search.

Best friend Jess has pieced together the clues, clutching the only note that Mark left in their secret hiding spot. She's torn betwixt keeping Mark's hush-hush, or telling his parents and bringing Marker home.

Mark had known she would figure it out. He trusted her. It was in her hands. Should she bring him back, and save him? Or save him, and permit him go?

But as Mark reaches the mount, he'south ready to die. On his ain terms. But with Swain past his side, it's not Marking's life he finds in danger, but that of his best friend and companion that refuses to get out his side. Suddenly Marking doesn't want to die, all lone and lost in the wilderness of the snowy mountain, is he as well belatedly to choose to alive?

The Honest Truth was a poignant story nigh a boy, his canine companion and choosing to die on his ain terms. Mark is a sensitive boy that has fought Cancer with sheer determination, just has at present reached breaking point and leaves without a word to his parents. Destined to climb a mountain he and his belatedly grandfather had planned to visit. He'south freeing himself from the confines of terminal disease, but Mark is about to discover that the globe his parents had sheltered him from, is equally brutal as it is beautiful.

His only friend on the route is Fellow, the spirited little dog that has seen Mark through his Cancer treatment, recovery and now navigating his way towards Mount Rainier. His pain and frustration were zip short of devastating. My middle broke for Marker, but what actually pushed me over that emotional edge was Beau. With i blue center and one brown, the niggling dog was incredibly loyal and heroic. There's no uncertainty that without his companion, Marker would have perished long before reaching the mountain.

Dying and living. Information technology's all such a mess. That'southward the truth. It made me mad. A lamentable kind of angry.

But even for a middle form novel, The Honest Truth is incredibly compelling and honest. Marking's journey isn't like shooting fish in a barrel, he's assaulted, tired, hungry, merely resourceful. What struck me nigh, is that he seemed comfy with the thought of dying on that mount, even with his parents and all-time friend Jess never beingness too far from his thoughts. I was torn between wanting him to reach the mount even if only to realise that his parents deserved more, and hoping that at least one person he'd met on his travels would have reported him to the police. When you're that historic period and need to fight each day to live, it would be difficult to accept others feelings into business relationship.

Merely Mark does reach the mountain, and the final few chapters left me breathless. I was far more invested than I'd realised and was almost on the verge of praying that both he and Young man made it home. It's simplistically written and due to the violence of marker beingness driveling and his disease, I'd recommend it more for mature middle grade readers. Simply young adult fans will savour this one. A quick read that y'all can emotionally invest in.

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