Nothing but the truth is a novel about a boy called Philip Malloy, is a ninth-grader at Harrison High School in Harrison, New Hampshire who is obsessed by the Track. He has a long-standing grudge with his english teacher Miss Narwin (Margaret Narwin to her friends). His grades are average generally, when he gets a D in english for rude and obnoxious behaviour, he cannot make the track team, but he decides not to tell his parents as he thinks they may be angry. Shortly after this he gets moved to Miss Narwin's homeroom, where at the start of the day when the national anthem is being played he hums along, upon this he is asked to stop, and when he does not he is sent to the Principal's office, the same thing happens for a number of days before Philip is suspended. His parents only hearing about the situation when Philip is suspended, Philips father takes this very seriously and talks to their neighbour Ted Griffin, who is on the school board, when they go over there is a journalist there who asks if she can print the story and does. From this point the situation escalates and escalates until it becomes a national issue.
I really liked this book because although a very simple plot was actually quite detailed and gave lots of opinions, but can show how by you doing something wrong and telling someone it can get out of hand.
JH
Fabulous want to read this so bad.....
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