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"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...
3) Spider Boy
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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.
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When Kyle fakes a catch, his baseball team goes on to win the league championship but Kyle doesn't feel good about winning by cheating. Includes a section on the sportsmanship of Christy Mathewson, a pitcher who played professional baseball in the early 1900s.
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Four stories about Katie Woo. In The big lie, when Jake loses his brand new toy airplane, Katie Woo lies and says that she does not know where it is. In Boss of the world, when Katie Woo and her friends go to the beach, Katie is so rude and bossy that her friends do not want to play with her. In A nervous night, Katie is nervous about a sleepover at her grandparents' house. In No more teasing, the class bully loves to tease Katie Woo until she...
6) The big lie
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When Jake loses his brand new toy airplane, Katie Woo lies and says that she does not know where it is.
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Mess Detectives Bob and Larry are on the case, trying to solve the mysteries of the messes at the Asparagus home. When there are many messes in the Asparagus home, Mess Detectives Bob and Larry arrive on the job to solve the mystery. What they find is Junior Asparagus being less than honest about who made all the messes. Read along as Junior and Larry both learn about how important telling the truth can be."--Zondervan.com
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AV² fiction readalong volume 67
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After new girl Kim tells her classmates she is from a royal family, her lie grows and grows.
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Allie Finkle's rules for girls volume 5
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When Allie Finkle's mom announces that she has to go to Brittany Hauser's birthday party instead of her friend Missy's baton competition, Allie must decide if lying to Missy will be worth the consequences of her actions.
12) Why would I lie?
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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.
13) Hippo owns up
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After Hippo sneaks into the school kitchen and eats an entire chocolate cake, he discovers the importance of being truthful.
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Celeste is hundreds of miles from home following an unexpected journey aboard a Mississippi steamboat. After mishaps and disasters, she finds herself on the frontier in southern Indiana. It's 1822, and Celeste meets a tall, lanky boy wielding an ax: a young Abraham Lincoln.
15) Hallow-weenie
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"Damien is afraid of the dark. That's no big deal except for the fact that his dad happens to be the bogeyman, and worse, he expects Damien to grow up and follow in his footsteps, scaring human children on Halloween night. Can Damien convince his dad thathe'd rather make candy than scare children?"--Page [4] of cover.
16) Pants on fire
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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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"Lexie and her cousin, Eleni, are super-mega-extra-seriously close. They're like twins who aren't actually twins, if that's possible. But when Lexie tells a terrible, jealous lie, her whole family is split apart. It's up to Lexie to bring them all back together and fix her relationship with Eleni. After a few calamitous escapades, Lexie has discovered that there are all sorts of truths and all sorts of lies...But can telling the truth be more hurtful...
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Daniel has only two friends, is unusually tall, is picked on by teachers, and does not look like anyone else in his family, so when he learns his mom saved a newspaper clipping about a meteor that landed nearby on his birthday, he embraces his pretend alien heritage and launches a mission with his two friends to return to his home planet.
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Devon Delaney cannot believe she's lying again. But the thing is, she couldn't help it. Her new boyfriend, Luke, is talking to his (gorgeous) ex-girlfriend, Bailey Barelli (!!!), every single day in mock trial. Devon couldn't just stand by and let him find out that she'd never dated anyone else before. Could she? Oopsie. Too late now.
To show how totally unaffected she is by Bailey's obvious Luke hang-up, Devon invents a fake ex-boyfriend of her own:...
20) She said/she saw
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When Tegan's two best friends are gunned down in front of her, nobody believes her that she didn't see who did it and doesn't know why.
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