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A Scar Like a River

A Scar Like a River

Graff, Lisa

Hardcover

FamilyGeneral Juvenile Fiction

Publisher Price: $17.99

ISBN10: 031657080X
ISBN13: 9780316570800
Publisher: Christy Ottaviano Books-Little Brown and Hach
Published: Feb 3 2026
Pages: 400
Weight: 1.05
Height: 1.60 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.30
Language: English
From bestselling author Lisa Graff, this important coming-of-age story follows a thirteen-year-old with a mysterious scar on her face--and a big secret she feels pressured to keep.

Winner of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award For Fiction

Fallon Little has a secret--and it's not how she got the enormous scar that divides her face in two.

Thirteen-year-old Fallon has only ever told one person what really happened on the day she got her scar. Why would she? The truth is dark, and Fallon has much brighter things to focus on, like being cast as the lead in the school play, and hanging out with her two best friends, Trent and Kaia. But when Fallon's uncle Geebie dies, his funeral ignites a wildfire of events that Fallon can't manage to tamp down. The school play is spiraling out of control, Fallon's impossible Aunt Lune comes to live with them, and Trent and Kaia might just be so into each other that there isn't room for Fallon in their friend group any more. And when secrets even worse than the one about Fallon's scar threaten to come to light, Fallon might not have the strength to keep them buried for much longer.

Through unflinching prose and with a pitch-perfect voice, Lisa Graff explores the power of confronting the past as a way to heal in the present in this propulsive and absorbing tour de force.

* The story's pitch-perfect tone balances sad and funny moments impeccably ... Darkness and light interplay with perfection.--Kirkus Reviews, starred review

* Graff infuses viscerally rendered realities of lingering trauma with moments of lightheartedness to deliver a meticulously calibrated work about a girl who refuses to be defined by her past.--Publishers Weekly, starred review

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