ABOUT THIS BOOK

ONE FRIDAY NIGHT Emma, Anna, and Mariah, three best friends, are out doing something they shouldn’t. They make up a story so they won’t get in trouble at home. It seems like the easy way out. What happens next challenges their friendship, their community, their relationships with their families, and their sense of themselves. What happens next shows the harm one lie can do.

Told in the voices of the three girls who must learn to live with the lies they tell, Harmless is a gripping and provocative novel full of startling turns and surprises.


REVIEWS

“Unpredictability and suspense will keep readers turning the pages. . . . They will appreciate how well the characters are developed and how . . . lies can have far-reaching and devastating consequences.”—School Library Journal


ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Dana Reinhardt is the author of How to Build a House and A Brief Chapter in My Impossible Life, which was an ALA YALSA Best Book for Young Adults and a New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two daughters.


AWARDS

WINNER 2008 - ALA Quick Pick for Young Adult Reluctant Readers