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Author
Series
Ping (Demi) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Ping admits that he is the only child in China unable to grow a flower from the seeds distributed by the Emperor, he is rewarded for his honesty.
2) Pinocchio
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
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.
Author
Series
Magic shop books (Bruce Coville) volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Charlie, a sixth-grader with a compulsion to tell lies, acquires a mysterious skull that forces its owner to tell only the truth, causing some awkward moments before he understands its power.
6) Verify
Author
Series
Verify volume 1
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Chicago teen Meri Beckley's pride of living in a land of peace, prosperity, and truth crumbles when questions following her mother's death reveal buried facts, especially that words can have great power.
7) Liars' room
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Simon is a liar. Stella and Alex know this about their new stepbrother, so they aren't bothered by his stories about their new house. But Simon is getting harder and harder to ignore, as his cries for attention become increasingly dangerous and difficult to explain. Stella and Alex have to consider ... could Simon actually be telling the truth? Will the three siblings be able to put aside their differences to save their family ... before it's too...
Author
Series
Pandava volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
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...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
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.
11) Karen's mermaid
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
♭1994.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Margo Pike is such a braggart that Karen felt justified in telling her that Karen had seen a mermaid in the ocean. But when Karen receives a note from Neptuna, a mermaid wanting to be her mermaid friend, Karen is not sure what to think.
12) Lying up a storm
Author
Publisher
National Center for Youth Issues
Pub. Date
c2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Whenever Levi doesn't like the truth, he kinda, sorta makes up other stuff to say. One day his mother explains to him that telling lies will damage the trust of his friends and make him very sad. ... This book is a great resource to help children understand not only the consequences of telling a lie, but also how one lie can often lead to telling several more."--Back cover.
14) Escape goat
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
From the creators of Lambslide, comes a hilarious children's story about a scapegoat who escapes blame just in time. The Farmer family has a big problem! Every day their goat escapes, and every day, Mr. Farmer brings him back. So when things start to go awry on the farm, it must be the goat's fault. Who's to blame when Mrs. Farmer's petunias are trampled? Or when all the cupcakes for Archie's party disappear? And when the whole bucket of paint is...
15) Dishonest Ninja
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Dishonest Ninja didn't think lying would hurt anyone.
But what Dishonest Ninja didn't understand was that each time a lie was told, Dishonest Ninja was hurting someone. Because when Dishonest Ninja told a lie, it changed Dishonest Ninja just a little bit each time..
Find out what happens in this book about how good it feels to tell the truth." --Publisher Marketing
16) Karen's big lie
Author
Series
Baby-sitters little sister. Main series volume 38
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[1993]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Karen did not mean to cheat, she just was not ready for the surprise math quiz. When her teacher and her friend Hannie ask her if she cheated, she lies.
17) The cheat
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2004, c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Cheating on a geography mid-term is just the beginning. What was done without much thought leads to big consequences-as you'll discover from six talkative eighth graders who are willing to share every juicy detail. This fast-paced look at some of the minefields of middle school is full of truth, humor, and heart.
18) Let's be honest
Author
Publisher
Ideals Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Introduces the concept of honesty as a young child describes why it is best to tell the truth at all times.
Author
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young boy named Tim is accused of lying when he tells his parents that a ninja ate the last piece of cake and a sunburned crocodile landed on the roof, so he figures out a way to prove that he is telling the truth.