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|title=The Deception Artist

|sort=Deception Artist, The

|publisher=Myriad Editions

|date=May 2013

|summary=Eight-year-old Ivy’s family life is strained as her brother is in hospital and her father loses his job. Her best friend thinks she is babyish for playing make believe. And her grandmother wants her to do ballet, when she just loves to dance around her room with scarves. This is her life as she sees it.

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This story is all about the characters. Plot-wise, it is set in 1980s suburban America. There are no explosions or even fairy tale adventures in this book. It’s just the simple adventure of life when you’re a child and learning new things every day. Ivy accounts her day-to-day life with an extreme attention to the strangest details, just like a child. As well as explaining what she has learnt in school, she describes her daydreams, her friends and her family. When her dad loses his job, her parents start arguing and she is worried they might have to get a divorce like sad Sara in her class. And not only that, they might have to return their new TV.