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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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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.
2) Big whopper
Author
Series
Zigzag kids volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Destiny Washington cannot think of a discovery during Discovery Week at school, she makes up a story, but finds that she cannot keep on pretending it is true.
Author
Series
Just Grace volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Just Grace is excited to attend her classmate Grace F's sleepover birthday party until she learns it will be a camp-out, and then her fears begin to cause trouble.
6) The big lie
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Jake loses his brand new toy airplane, Katie Woo lies and says that she does not know where it is.
Author
Series
Pandava volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Description
"Aru Shah has a tendency to stretch the truth in order to fit in at her private middle school. While her classmates are jetting off to exotic vacations, she'll be spending her autumn break in the Museum of Ancient Indian Art and Culture that her mom curates. Is it any wonder Aru makes up stories about being royalty, traveling to Paris, and having a chauffeur? One day, three schoolmates show up at Aru's doorstep to catch her in a lie. They don't believe...
8) Smoke screen
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Co. Publications
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
As Mitzi's mother tries unsuccessfully to quit smoking, Mitzi pretends her mother has a terrible disease, "Stipitis," in order to win sympathy and affection from a boy she has a crush on.
Author
Series
Allie Finkle's rules for girls volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
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.
14) Honest Ashley
Author
Publisher
A. Whitman
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Ashley postpones a homework assignment until the last minute, she is tempted to pass off an old paper of her brother's as her own.
Author
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
Eleven-year-old Ant, stuck in a family that she does not like, copes by pretending that her "real" parents are coming to rescue her, by loving her dog Pistachio, by volunteering at the zoo, and by bending the truth and telling lies.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nancy writes a report for school about her great-grandfather, making things up so he seems less ordinary, but when she learns that Grandpa will be there to hear her read the report aloud she realizes she was dishonest.
Author
Series
Mallory McDonald books volume 8
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When Mallory cannot decide what to be on Career Day, it makes her feel like she is not good at anything and she ends up telling a lie that quickly gets out of control.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Having fibbed about stealing his best friend's popcorn at the circus, Doug-Dennis the sheep finds himself carried far away to a place filled with lies and liars of all sorts and must discover a way to return.
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