Tell me something real
By: Calla Devlin
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9781481461153; 9781481461160
Subjects: Family secrets; Juvenile fiction; Betrayal; Leukemia; Fiction; Americans; Sisters; Mothers and daughters
Description: "The three Babcock sisters must travel to a Mexican clinic across the border so their mother, ill with leukemia, can receive alternative treatments. The sisters' world is about to shatter under the weight of an incomprehensible betrayal. . . an illness far more insidious than cancer that poisons their home"--

The three Babcock sisters and their mother spend a lot of time at a Mexican clinic across the border from their San Diego home. There the mother is receiving alternative treatments for her leukemia. Vanessa, the middle child and a talented pianist, is trying to hold her family together despite the painful loss that they all know is inevitable. As she and her sisters navigate first loves and college dreams, they are completely unaware that an illness far more insidious than cancer poisons their home. Their world is about to shatter under the weight of an incomprehensible betrayal....