# A Scar like a River

**Author:** Lisa Graff
**Grade range:** Grades 4–9
**First published:** 2026
**Page count:** 316
**Genre:** Children's
**ISBN-13:** `9780316570831`
**ISBN-10:** `0316570834`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/a-scar-like-a-river
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

From bestselling author Lisa Graff, this important coming-of-age story follows a thirteen-year-old with a mysterious scar on her face—and a big secret she feels pressured to keep. Fallon Little has a secret—and it’s not how she got the enormous scar that divides her face in two. Thirteen-year-old Fallon has only ever told one person what really happened on the day she got her scar. Why would she? The truth is dark, and Fallon has much brighter things to focus on, like being cast as the lead in the school play, and hanging out with her two best friends, Trent and Kaia. But when Fallon's uncle Geebie dies, his funeral ignites a wildfire of events that Fallon can't manage to tamp down. The school play is spiraling out of control, Fallon's impossible Aunt Lune comes to live with them, and Tren

## Where this book is assigned

### Boston Globe–Horn Book Award

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- **recommended** · 8th grade — [source: Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winners, via Wikipedia — 2026 Winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Globe%E2%80%93Horn_Book_Award)
- **recommended** · 9th grade — [source: Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winners, via Wikipedia — 2026 Winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Globe%E2%80%93Horn_Book_Award)

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