Fiction

Category: ReviewAuthor: Gordon KormanGenres: Family, Fiction, Middle Grade, Realistic Fiction, To-readThe story of a family of liars… and the son who wants to break the family tradition. Trey knows the routine. His dad gets him into a school full of kids with rich parents. Trey makes friends, and his dad makes connections. Soon, there’s the con, where Trey’s dad suckers the other parents into investing in one of his schemes. Once the money’s in the bank, Trey, his sister, and their dad are on the run… until they set up somewhere else and start again. Trey believes his father when he says no one’s getting hurt. After all, these parents have money to spare. But Trey’s starting to get tired of running… and lying… and never having a friend for longer than a few months. But how do you get your family to stop lying when your lives depend on it?Trey (last name subject to change, without any notice), along with his farther and sister are con artists. Well, mostly it’s his dad, but Trey and his sister are right in there with him, working at conning people out of their money until the code word, Houdini, gets them moving. At that, they leave town, leaving all their things and more importantly for Trey, all their friends. It’s the leaving his friends that finally makes Trey think about what he’s been doing and examining what he’s been told. “Faker” is another addition to Gordon Korman’s stable of top selling MG/Children’s Read more