Dan Gemeinhart "The Honest Truth"

BookPeople is pleased to host Dan Gemeinhart, author of the YA novel The Honest Truth, which was an Indies Next List selection and New York Times Editors' Choice Selection. All are welcome. In The Honest Truth, Mark is a normal kid. He's got a dog named Beau and a best friend, Jessie. He likes to take photos and write haiku poems in his notebook. He dreams of climbing a mountain one day. But in one important way, Mark is not like other kids at all. Mark is sick. The kind of sick that means hospitals. And treatments. The kind of sick some people never get better from. So Mark runs away. He leaves home with his camera, his notebook, his dog, and a plan to reach the top of Mount Rainier even if it's the last thing he ever does. Dan Gemeinhart is a teacher-librarian and the father of three daughters. He lives with his family in Washington state