The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle by Leslie Connor

The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle by Leslie Connor was published in 2018. I listened to this book because I loved Connor's book Waiting for Normal. This book is every bit as good. 

Mason Buttle is a tall and large young teen who has a sweating disorder - he sweats a lot, and he also has reading and writing learning differences. He is bullied and tormented by the popular Matty and other boys on the lacrosse team. Mason lives on an apple orchard, and his uncle has been selling parts of it off for development. 

Mason has troubles. The police want to find out what happened to his best friend Benny who turned up dead in his apple orchard, and now Mason's new best friend is missing, and just like Benny, Mason is the last person to see him alive. 

Mason is such a well written character with depth and growth. The other characters in the book are also well written, and the story flows well. 

Read to a child today even if that child is you. 

We've had several donations lately to our book project. 

Britney Shaw donated these:

Grace Olsen donated $60, and I purchased the following 78 books:

Primary Children's Hospital donated 40 books and 20 teddy bears to go with them. 

 As always, thank you all for the donations!

Link to our NICU book registry to donate books to babies in the newborn intensive care unit so their parents can read to them while they grow. You can also donate gently used books to our project by sending them to me or to Angie. Email me for a mailing address. We can use both English and Spanish books. If you have a graduate of the NICU, or if you have a baby whose life you would like to honor by donating books to this project, let me know, and I can make a book plate with their name for the books you donate.