The result is a refreshingly honest exploration of modern relationships and an understanding that love can take many shapes and forms." - Publishers Weekly, starred review" Honestly Ben is funny, complex, joyful, heartbreaking, and exceedingly wise all at once. the world's expectations and assumptions. Equal parts serious and funny as it addresses homophobia, hazing rituals, and cheating while also delighting readers with a slice-of-life tale set at a private academy." - School Library Journal, starred review* "Konigsberg again realistically explores what happens when one's self butts up against.
Extremely well written, this novel of ideas is deeply satisfying and as honest as its appealing protagonist." - Booklist, starred review* "Well-rounded characters take readers from serious, thoughtful discussions to typical teen pranks with ease. Praise for Honestly Ben:* "Konigsberg has again done a remarkable job developing characters and inviting readers to consider the meaning of friendship with all its rewards and challenges. and maybe the real normal that Ben needs. And there's Rafe, funny, kind, dating someone else. School is harder, the pressure higher, the scholarship almost slipping away. There's his mother, whose quiet unhappiness Ben is noticing for the first time. All that foolishness with Rafe Goldberg the past semester is in the 's Hannah, the gorgeous girl from the neighboring school, who attracts him and distracts him. He's even won a full scholarship to college, if he can keep up his grades. He just got elected captain of the baseball team. He's working steadily in his classes at the Natick School. Perfect for fans of David Levithan, Andrew Smith, and John Green!Ben Carver is back to normal. The companion to the award-winning Openly Straight, called "eply satisfying and as honest as its appealing protagonist" ( Booklist).
In the companion to Openly Straight, Ben confronts pressure at school, repression at home, and his passion for two very different people in figuring out what it takes to be Honestly Ben.
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