“When I read Nothing But The Truth, I thought of it as a documentary novel. It reads as though Avi has lots of documentary film footage that he has carefully edited to create a narrative but without any voice over to influence the reader. It could easily have become a one dimensional and didactic view of how many groups—students, faculty, administration, parents, media, community—interact with each other in high school. Instead Avi adds to the complexity of it all by showing the variety of opinions and personalities within each group and thus providing the reader with ambivalence rather a clear linear interpretation. In other words, true to life.”