I got fed up of the generic phrases you were supposed to learn at school for French and German - they all seemed to be about a perfect nuclear family with working parents, a car and they did loads of activities all the time - it's hard to answer the question 'what does your father do?' when you haven't got a fucking clue and would be in huge trouble if you asked.
Throughout my time at school when we had to do such things (oh, the fucking term on Draw Your Family Tree was an absolute joy), I had made up various versions of myself - and got into trouble for making things up.
By the time I was 13 and my Gradfather had died about two weeks beforehand, thus removing my plan for escape, as I'd wanted to go and live with him where it was clean, warm, quiet and in the countryside, I was belligerent enough to give them the full force of my teenaged wrath (but not enough to refuse to take part, as that would have been rude, in my little mind).
We had each language lesson on the same day, and I answered accurately on the test.
I live with my mother in a dirty house with five cats and a dog.
I don't have a Dad. I think he's dead, but I don't know.
All my Grandparents are dead.
My Mum does nothing (ie, doesn't work). No, she doesn't clean the house or cook, she watches television and shouts at me and the animals.
I stay in my room at the weekend.
We don't go out.
There was a pause from the teacher in the first lesson and I was told to go and sit back down. In the second lesson, my teacher was the head of languages. He asked (in German) if this was true and I replied it was. He apologised, gave me full marks and the lessons changed after that - no more talking about 'what is' - lessons were based upon what we wanted to happen/do/liked instead. And I learned far, far more that way.
Don't get hung up on what she's written in her book, OP, it's not wishful thinking, it's what she has to do to get decent marks these days.