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"At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls "Daniel") stands, trying to tell a story. His story. But no one believes a word he says. To them he is a dark-skinned, hairy-armed boy with a big butt whose lunch smells funny; who makes things up and talks about poop too much. But Khosrou's stories, stretching back years, and decades, and centuries, are beautiful, and terrifying, from the moment his...
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Series
Ali Cross volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
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Ali Cross is back in the sequel to Ali Cross, mystery that introduced readers to detective Alex Cross' son. In Ali's toughest case ever, his friend Zoe is in trouble after Ali and his friends witnessed a crime in Anacostia Park, and it's up to Ali to figure out why Zoe is lying to the police-and who she's protecting.
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Series
Princess Posey books volume 7
Publisher
Puffin Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
83 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Description
Posey has asked Santa for a real magic wand, but when an accident leads her to tell a white lie, she begins to wonder if Santa will come at all.
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Pig the pug volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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Pig the Pug often lies to get what he wants, and blames Trevor the sausage dog for his own misdeeds--but when his latest lie results in an accident and the loss of a tooth he finally learns his lesson (maybe).
5) The Whopper
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Publisher
Templar Books, an imprint of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Description
A little boy named Percy tells a lie, which turns into the Whopper, a hungry and persistent monster. As Percy's guilt grows, the Whopper does too, until finally ... the Whopper easts Percy! It is only when the Whopper threatens to also eat Percy's brother that Percy finally speaks up --
6) Zebra forest
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2013], ©2013
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200 pages ; 23 cm.
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When eleven-year-old Annie first started lying to her social worker, she had been taught by an expert: Gran. She told Annie and her little brother, Rew, the one thing they know about their father: that he was killed in a fight with an angry man who was sent away. Annie tells stories, as she and Rew laze under the birches and oaks of Zebra Forest -- stories about their father the pirate, or pilot, or secret agent. But then something shocking happens...
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Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
226 p. ; 22 cm.
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Gregory Korenstein-Jasperton is an eleven-year-old boy who likes to write stories and poems and is not excited by math, but he has a problem--he is the middle child in a family of math geniuses and his father expects him to participate in the City Math contest.
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"Seventeen-year-old Gemma's favorite kind of beach is an empty one. Social interactions are too much for her to handle. She always says the wrong thing--if she manages to say anything at all. She can't even bring herself to speak to her longtime crush, Beau Booker, without losing sleep over her own awkwardness. During a solo outing to her favorite beach, Gemma realizes--to her horror--that the popular kids from school have shown up to throw a party....
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Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
228 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
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"A boy must untangle the web of lies he's created in order to prove his innocence when strange things start happening in this humorous and cheeky illustrated middle grade novel in the tradition of the Timmy Failure series. Sam Lyttle is prone to stretching the truth. Most of his lies are harmless; tall tales and the product of an overactive imagination. So when Sam is summoned to explain a strange discovery--a ping-pong ball in a jar of peanut butter--and...
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Publisher
Page Street Publishing Co
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
[275 pages ; 22 cm]
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"Macy Evans dreams of earning enough income from her YouTube channel, R3ntal Wor1d, to leave her small, Midwestern town. But when she meets a boy named Eric at a baseball game, and accidently dumps her hotdog in his lap, her disastrous "meet-cute" becomes the topic of a viral thread. Now it's not loyal subscribers flocking to her channel, it's Internet trolls. And they aren't interested in her reviews of VHS tapes--they only care about her relationship...
11) Franklin fibs
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Franklin tells a fib and finds himself in an embarrassing predicament. Paulette Bourgeois and Brenda Clark link their talents to produce another winning Franklin Classic Storybook. This fixed-layout ebook, which preserves the design and layout of the original print book, features read-along narration by the author as well as music and sound effects.
12) The big bad lies
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Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
244 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Description
Lily Lattuga finally feels settled after moving to a new town and starting the fourth grade at a new school. She gets to live right across the lake from her best friend, Darby, who loves frogs and drawing just as much as Lily does. They even have their own club: the Rizzlerunks. But then things start going wrong: the new boy in class is a liar and a bully, and Darby begins acting strangely--she even breaks the Rizzlerunk pledge of honesty and gets...
13) Peanut
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Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
2013, ©2013.
Physical Desc
206 pages : chiefly illustrations, some color ; 24 cm
Description
Nervous about starting her sophomore year at a new high school, Sadie decides to make herself more interesting by claiming to be allergic to peanuts, but her lie quickly spirals out of control.
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