Ben Carver is back to normal. He’s working steadily in his classes at the Natick School. He just got elected captain of the baseball team. He has even won a full scholarship to college, if he can keep up his grades. All that foolishness with Rafe Goldberg the past semester is in the past.
Except there’s Hannah, the gorgeous girl from the neighboring school, who attracts him and distracts him. There’s his mother, whose quiet unhappiness Ben is noticing for the first time. School is harder, the pressure higher, the scholarship almost slipping away. And there’s Rafe, funny, kind, dating someone else—and maybe the real normal that Ben needs.
Perfect for fans of David Levithan, Andrew Smith, and John Green, Honestly Ben is a smart, laugh-out-loud novel that will speak to anyone who’s struggled to be “honestly ____________” in some part of their lives.
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“Dan Bittner’s narration develops the unique personality of seventeen-year-old Ben…His delivery continually contrasts Ben’s sensitivity with the insensitivity of others…In a complex portrait, Bittner captures Ben’s confused central conflict…[and] highlights Ben’s search for his identity. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”
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