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1) Harmless
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Anna, Emma, and Mariah concoct a story about why they are late getting home one Friday night, their lie has unimaginable consequences for the girls, their families, and the community.
Author
Language
English
Description
"By all appearances, Frank and Maggie share a happy, loving marriage. But for the past six months, they have not spoken. Not a sentence, not a single word. Maggie isn't sure what, exactly, provoked Frank's silence, though she has a few ideas... Then Frank finds Maggie collapsed in the kitchen, unconscious, an empty package of sleeping pills on the table. Rushed to the hospital, she is placed in a medically induced coma while the doctors assess the...
6) It's true!
Author
Series
Publisher
Tommy Nelson
Pub. Date
[2013].
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Little Critter learns quickly that lying has consequences and that telling the truth, no matter how hard, is always the right thing to do.
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.
Author
Series
Effie Maloney books volume 1
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Effie is dealing with a lot of problems, including some missing money, losing her best friend, the death of her grandfather and more, and her mean older sister Maxey is making things even worse.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Heidi Wood has always been a charitable woman: she works for a nonprofit and takes in stray cats. Still, her husband and daughter are horrified when Heidi returns home one day with a young woman named Willow and her four-month-old baby in tow. Disheveled and apparently homeless, this girl could be a criminal--or worse. But despite her family's objections, Heidi invites Willow and the baby to take refuge in their home. Heidi spends the next few days...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Ben has so often tried to convince people he has seen Bigfoot that when a real yeti arrives and borrows his bicycle, no one comes to see if Ben is telling the truth.
11) Being Frank
Author
Publisher
Flashlight Press
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Frank's motto is "honesty is the best policy", however, his overly frank comments tend to annoy his friends, teachers and even his mother.
Author
Series
Betty Bunny books volume 3
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When a young rabbit breaks a table lamp and blames the Tooth Fairy, her family explains the importance of honesty.
Author
Series
Just Grace volume 11
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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.
14) Why would I lie?
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Viveca North is determined to be the valedictorian at her prep school, but when the new boy Jamison Sharpe, whom she is convinced is a fraud, threatens her goal, she sets out to uncover the truth behind his deceit.
15) Thumped
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Melody and Harmony are without a doubt two of the most powerful pregnant teens on the planet, and there's only one thing they could do that would make them more famous than they already are: tell the truth"--
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Justin, Jordan, and Jade's mother agrees to buy cupcakes if the trio will wait until after dinner to eat them, but one cupcake goes missing and until the mystery is solved, no one will get dessert.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2013].
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Colette is a compulsive liar spending a miserable summer in San Luis Obispo, California, babysitting her seven-year-old brother while her famous mother shoots a movie, but things look up when Connor enters the scene.
Author
Series
Princess Posey books volume 7
Publisher
Puffin Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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.
19) Cursed
Author
Series
Gilded duology volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When the true intentions of the Erlking are revealed, which could forever alter the mortal realm, Serilda and Gild must foil the Erlking's evil agenda by solving the mystery of Gild's forgotten name in order to protect their unborn child"--
Serilda finds herself ensnared in a deadly game of make-believe with the Erlking, who is determined to propel her deeper into the castle's lies. She is determined to work with Gild to help him solve the mystery...
20) Snowglobe
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Given the opportunity to enter Snowglobe, the last place on Earth that's warm, where its residents, in exchange for fame, fortune and safety, broadcast their lives 24/7 to the less fortunate outside, Chobahm discovers reality is a lie--and the truth is out of reach"--
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