SOLVED. YA fiction. Student gets an Award, but confessed he Cheated on his Calculus test in his award acceptance speech. Starts with him receiving report card around Christmas, great grades except calculus, principal tells him to improve. Read 2018. [s]

[AliAnn]

[Longer version of the topic]: Fiction: The book starts with the main character getting his report card. He received good grades except in Calculus. The principal offers to give him an award because of being the top students and being part of cross country but told the student to improve his performance in calculus. To do well on his calculus exam, the character cheated. When he was preparing for his speech, he contacted the guy the award was named after and realized that he also cheated. In his speech to the school, the character confesses that he cheated and states that he cannot accept something like this. Afterwards, his parents and the principal were very disappointed in him.

I believe this book takes place in the north, maybe around Boston, MA. I read this book during the summer 2018. The author wrote books with very similar plot but each book's perspective was from a different character. The characters were the same in each of the book.

I enjoyed the book and want to add to my goodreads-a hobby I started after my college suspended for a couple of weeks.

[Kris]

AliAnn, what's the genre (which we need to add to the header/ topic title) - e.g., YA (teens) realistic fiction, coming of age, funny at times, non-fiction, etc.?

I added some details to the header/ topic title. Feel free to edit it.

[Angela]

Honestly Ben by Bill Konigsberg?

[Emily]

Honestly Ben by Bill Konigsberg
matches some of these details.
Here are other books, some in the same series
https://www.goodreads.com/author/list...

[AliAnn]

I think Emily got it. I think it's for tweens or young adults. But it's fiction.

[AliAnn]

Thank you, Emily.

[Emily]

Angela and I posted at the same time...I had the window open while I was looking it up! I'm glad you found your book!