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Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In the three years since the Virgil County High School Massacre, a story has grown up around one of the victims, Sarah McHale, that says she died proclaiming her Christian faith--but Leanne Bauer was there, and knows what happened, and she has a choice: stay silent and let people believe in Sarah's martyrdom, or tell the truth.
3) Pinocchio
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Series
Language
English
Description
A lonely woodcutter creates a puppet that comes to life, but Pinocchio is more of a prankster than a pleasure until he learns that being a real boy is much more complicated than simply having fun.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
High school senior Sonny Ardmore is an accomplished liar who uses lies to try and control her out-of-control life which has been further complicated by the fact that she is secretly staying every night in her best friend Amy's house because she has been kicked out by her own mother--but when she gets into a online conversation with the stuck-up new boy Ryder, who has a crush on Amy, she finds herself caught up in one lie to many.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
English-language edition.
Language
English
Description
"A springtime fresh picture book about a good day out with friends--climbing mountains, swimming and singing--and the difference between storytelling and lies. Lisette and her friend Bobbi the lizard have never told a lie. But they are eager to try--it might be fun! They tell Popof they are going for a trip to the mountains. When Popof decides to come too, they realise they'll have to make the mountain. A liar needs to improvise. In this funny story...
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"Violet is a prophet and a liar, influencing the royal court with her cleverly phrased—and not always true—divinations. Honesty is for suckers, like the oh-so-not charming Prince Cyrus, who plans to strip Violet of her official role once he’s crowned at the end of the summer—unless Violet does something about it. But when the king asks her to falsely prophesy Cyrus's love story for an upcoming ball, Violet awakens a dreaded curse, one that...
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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 family...
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Series
Bamboo kingdom volume 2
Language
English
Description
"For three pandas in the Bamboo Kingdom, secrets have changed everything. Rain, Ghost, and Leaf have only just discovered the truth about their families--but they don't have all the facts. And while they attempt to piece together the puzzle of their pasts, a threat is growing ever stronger in their homeland--a liar masquerading as a leader. Sunset, the so-called Dragon Speaker, has his own agenda, and the discovery of the triplets from an ancient...
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Language
English
Description
"Fans of Undead Girl Gang and The Babysitters Coven will love Breakup from Hell, a witty YA rom-com with a supernatural twist, starring horror novel obsessed Mica Angeles, who discovers the guy she fell for comes straight out of one of her beloved books. Miguela Angeles is tired. Tired of her abuela keeping secrets, especially about her heritage. Tired of her small Vermont town and hanging out at the same places with the same friends she's known forever....
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Español
Description
¿Conoce Zorro a SuperTortuga? Quizás no dice la verdad.... Pero ¿y si sus mentiras pusieran en peligro a su amiga Ardilla?
Fox's lie gets bigger and bigger as the day goes on. He feels bad about it but will he be brave enough to tell the truth? To impress his friends, Fox lies about knowing the superhero, SuperTurtle. As one lie leads to another, he no longer knows what to do. Will he finally tell the truth when his lies put his friend Squirrel...
11) Why would I lie?
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
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.
12) Sun signs
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Unable to attend school while she battles cancer, fifteen-year-old Kaleigh Wyse tries to complete her classes online
Developing a science project on astrology, Kaleigh enlists other online learners as study participants. What starts as a collaborative and supportive project based on the scientific method, slowly becomes unwieldy and then flawed when it is apparent that all the project participants are hiding vital clues
...13) Escape goat
Author
Language
English
Description
In the wake of accidents that occur every time their escape-artist goat is found outside its pen, young Nicolette discovers that the goat is being wrongly blamed for the mischief of others.
14) Karen's big lie
Author
Series
Baby-sitters little sister. Main series volume 38
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
From the bestselling author of the generation-defining series The Baby-sitters Club comes a series for a new generation!
Big Lies = Big TroubleKaren did not mean to cheat off of Ricky. But she was just not ready for Ms. Colman's surprise math quizzes. And Ricky's paper was right there. When her teacher and her friend Hannie ask Karen is she has been cheating, she says no. A big lie! What will she do if everyone finds out the truth? Ann...
15) Leviathan
Author
Series
Adventuregame comics volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A "choose your own story" graphic novel. In a small medieval coastal town, the residents live in fear of a giant sea creature, the Leviathan, who attacks anyone who lies. Your mission: discover the secrets and defeat the creature before it's too late! How you go about it depends on the choices you make.
16) The big bad lies
Author
Series
Rizzlerunk Club volume 2
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Devon cannot believe she's lying again. But the thing is, she couldn't help it. Her new boyfriend, Luke is talking to his ex-girlfriend every single day in mock trial. Devon can't just stand by and let him find out that she'd never dated anyone else before.
18) We were liars
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English
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WAS-Colleen Hoover Read-Alikes
Description
A beautiful and distinguished family. A private island. A brilliant, damaged girl; a passionate, political boy. A group of four friends -- the Liars -- whose friendship turns destructive. A revolution. An accident. A secret. Lies upon lies. True love. The truth. Spending the summers on her family's private island off the coast of Massachusetts with her cousins and a special boy named Gat, teenaged Cadence struggles to remember what happened during...
19) Pig the fibber
Author
Series
Pig the pug volume 2
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
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).
Author
Series
Pretty little liars volume Prequel
Language
English
Description
A tale set in the seventh grade in the weeks leading up to Ali's murder reveals her plots against Emily, Hanna, Aria and Spencer, as well as a dark secret that has the potential to destroy everything.
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