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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fourteen-year-old Kevin is very good at lying and doing so makes life easier, but when he finds himself in big trouble with his friends, family, and teachers, he must find a way to end his lies forever.
3) Spider Boy
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
After moving to another state, seventh grader Bobby deals with the change by telling people at school made-up stories and then retreating into his world of pet spiders and books about spiders.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When her best friend Sea returns from her summer vacation claiming to have a boyfriend, twelve-year-old Tori is sure she is lying and makes up her own boyfriend, who just so happens to do everything better than Sea's boyfriend.
10) A fishy story
Author
Publisher
Night Sky Books
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The fish in Puffer's class at school realize that his stories are exaggerated and sometimes untrue.
11) Being Frank
Author
Publisher
Flashlight Press
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Frank struggles to learn the art of being tactful when he observes that his friend has freckles resembling the Big Dipper, his teacher has breath that smells like onions, and his principal's toupee looks like a weasel.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
While trying to outwit the soldiers who are occupying their small town, fourteen-year-old Daniel, who cannot lie, and Emily, who discovers she has magical powers, are inexplicably drawn to a mysterious island in the heart of the forest where townsfolk have been warned never to go.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Violet has a great new backpack with wheels and zippers, but when the many pockets distract and cause her to misplace her homework she tells a lie to cover it up, so the teacher gives her an even harder assignment.
Author
Series
Allie Finkle's rules for girls volume 5
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
While trying to spare Erica's feelings so she could go to Brittany's birthday party, Allie disobeys one of her own rules and lies.
15) Pants on fire
Author
Publisher
HarperTempest
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Having become a proficient liar in order to keep everyone happy, rising high school senior Katie Ellison is stunned when her old middle school friend and local pariah Tommy Sullivan returns to town, and suddenly things start looking a lot different to her.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Big Bad Wolf, who now lives at the Villain Villa Retirement Residence, is invited to tell his story at the library, he faces the truth about what he did to the three little pigs and decides to make amends.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After lying to spare a friend's feelings, Prilla, a mainland-visiting, clapping-talent fairy, finds herself spending a day as a butterfly herder, while strange things keep happening to her.
Author
Publisher
Pineapple Press
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A fourteen-year-old moves to Florida at the height of World War II to join his father, a Navy seaman, and soon develops such a reputation for exaggeration that when he announces having seen an enemy spy land on the beach, no one believes him.
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