Kit Pearson
HarperCollins
Aug 8 2011
256 pages
Hardcover, $19.99
On May 31, Kit Pearson
won the Canadian Library Association
Book-of-the-Year-for-Children Award for the Whole Truth.
The Whole Truth also won the 2012 Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Award. 
Mystery and family loyalty are front and centre in this
novel set in 1932 story. Ten-year-old Polly and her older sister Maud are
harboring a secret they have sworn never to tell a soul. When Maud goes to
boarding school and Polly stays on Victoria Island, a visitor arrives, and
threatens to unravel the whole works.
While Kit Pearson writes for predominantly girls, ages nine
to 13, she thinks Polly’s transformation over four years and the underlying
mystery will appeal to boys as well.
“I think a lot of kids choose the book by the first
sentence,” Pearson said from Victoria. “And the first sentence is ‘After it
happened, they were sent away.’ And you don’t find out for quite a while what
happened so, hopefully, they’ll keep reading.”
Pearson also penned a sequel, And Nothing but the Truth, released in August 2012.
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