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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
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.
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Pandava volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Description
"Twelve-year-old Aru Shah has a tendency to stretch the truth in order to fit in at school. While her classmates are jetting off to family vacations in exotic locales, she'll be spending her autumn break at home, in the Museum of Ancient Indian Art and Culture, waiting for her mom to return from her latest archeological trip. Is it any wonder that Aru makes up stories about being royalty, traveling to Paris, and having a chauffeur? One day, three...
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Junie B. Jones series volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Junie B. Jones experiences glee while showing off her new furry mittens in kindergarten, but disaster strikes when they disappear from the playground.
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"Eleven-year-old Nico Krispis never told a lie. When the Nazi’s invade his home in Salonika, Greece, the trustworthy boy is discovered by a German officer, who offers him a chance to save his family. All Nico has to do is convince his fellow Jewish residents to board trains heading to 'new homes' where they are promised jobs and safety. Unaware that this is all a cruel ruse, the innocent boy goes to the station platform every day and reassures the...
6) Pinocchio
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Description
The adventures of the puppet boy created by an old Italian woodcarver from a piece of wood that talked. Includes vocabulary notes in the margin, a brief biography of the author, and instructions for making a hand puppet.
9) Prophet
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 30
Description
John Barrett, anchorman for "News Six at Five," has a problem. His comfortable, successful world is being jarred to the breaking point. He's caught his producer skewing a story to suit her own prejudices, then lying to cover her tracks - and something much bigger. Barrett's father's "accidental" death suddenly isn't looking so accidental. His estranged son Carl has returned to challenge his integrity and probe for the man behind the TV image. The...
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
If you're like most people, you probably lied today. It may have been a small one, some insignificant falsehood meant to protect someone's feelings or guard your true thoughts. Now imagine if your parents ingrained in you a compulsion to never, under any circumstances, withhold the truth or fail to speak your mind. It might be wonderfully freeing. Everyone else might not appreciate it so much.
“To Be Honest” is Michael Leviton's extraordinary...
12) Spider's web
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Osborne completes his homage to Christie with this third and final adaptation of an original Christie play, following Black Coffee (1998) and The Unexpected Guest (1999). Though the play was written in 1954, the story suffers little from the passage of time, and aside from the static setting, reads well as a novel. Christie's exquisite timing and clever sleight-of-mind tricks are a delight, while Osborne has the good sense not to embroider the tale....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 8
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Description
Mason Buttle is the biggest, sweatiest kid in his grade, and everyone knows he can barely read or write. But those troubles don't compare with grief. Fifteen months ago, Mason's best friend, Benny Kilmartin, turned up dead in the Buttle family's orchard. An investigation drags on, and Mason, honest as the day is long, can't understand why Lieutenant Baird won't believe the story Mason has told about that day. Mason's new friend, tiny Calvin Chumsky,...
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Series
Junie B. Jones volume 9-16
Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
Spunky kindergartener Junie B. Jones gets a valentine from a secret admirer, wishes she could be flower girl at her aunt's wedding, struggles with a scary field trip to a farm, and is made a team captain for her classroom's field day, and more.
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Pub. Date
c2010
Description
Book 1. When Mitchell's father gets a new job and his family moves, he and his sister go to a new school where they must make new friends and adjust to new routines. Book 2. Book 2. 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.
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