Little Black Lies

Finally, we have a cover for Little Black Lies, my first book for teens (and youthful grown ups!). Description from the back cover plus excerpt:

Mix Mean Girls with a splash of Gossip Girl and you get bestselling author Tish Cohen's  debut teen novel, Little Black Lies

 

 

Sara and her father are moving to Boston from small-town Lundun, Massachusetts. She is going to attend the very elite Anton High School-- crowned "North America's Most Elite and Most Bizarre" by Time magazine, harder to get into than Harvard. As the new girl, Sara doesn't know anyone--better yet, no one knows her. And that means she can escape her family's checkered past and her father can be a surgeon instead of "Crazy Charlie" the school janitor.

What's the harm of a few little black lies? Especially if it transforms Sara into Anton's newest popular girl. But then one of the It girls at school starts looking into Sara's past, and her father's obsessive compulsive disorder takes a turn for the worse. Soon, the whole charade just might come crashing down...

 

 

 

[Excerpt]

After writing the entrance exam--a brutal test some 11,000 gifted students take in March of their eighth-grade year--only 175 get in. They're the Cream of the Gifted Crop. The other 10,825, the Lesser Gifteds, have to live with that failure the remainder of their suddenly pointless lives. That Anton is tougher to get into than Harvard will do little to soothe their scrabbed-up egos.. . . . All of which explains why Anton is considered elite. Why it's called bizarre is too obvious to mention. It's 100% stocked with nerds and brainiacs. Forget quarterbacks, starting pitchers, and pom-pom wielding cheerleaders. If they exist at all, they're probably ashamed of themselves. The real royalty of the school are national robotics war lords, science wizards and mathletes.

--From Little Black Lies