Truth, Lies, and the Questions in Between

In 1973, the year of Watergate, the Equal Rights Amendment, and Roe v. Wade, seventeen-year-old Patty, a newly minted Congressional page, starts to question everything as she learns to think for, and rely on, herself.

About the author

L. M. Elliott was an award-winning magazine journalist in Washington, DC, before becoming a New York Times bestselling author of historical and biographical young adult novels. Her works include Under a War-Torn Sky, Suspect Red, Hamilton and Peggy!, Walls, and Bea and the New Deal Horse, have won the Scott O'Dell, the VLA Cardinal Cup, and the Grateful American Book Prize for historical fiction, and been named NCSS/CBC Notables, Bank Street College of Ed. Bests, and Kirkus Bests. Visit her online at lmelliott.com.

Summary

From a New York Times bestselling author, this documentary-style novel with a photo essay introducing every chapter tells the story of a young woman making history—and making waves—when she serves as one of the first female Capitol pages in Washington, DC, on the cusp of the Watergate scandal.

Foreword

From a New York Times bestselling author, this documentary-style novel with a photo essay introducing every chapter tells the story of a young woman making history—and making waves—when she serves as one of the first female Capitol pages in Washington, DC, on the cusp of the Watergate scandal.

Product details

• Authors: L. M. Elliott, L.M. Elliott
• Publisher: Little Brown USA
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 14 to 18
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.01.2025
• EAN: 9781643752822
• ISBN: 978-1-64375-282-2
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books; USA, 20th Century, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Politics & Government, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Girls & Women, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, People & places (Children's / Teenage), General fiction (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage fiction: General fiction, United States of America, USA, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Politics, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Girls and women