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61) Winners take all
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
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.
65) Lies
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Six days ago, Joe Lynch was a happily married man, a devoted father, and a respected teacher living in a well-to-do London suburb. But that was before he spotted his wife's car entering a hotel parking garage. Before he saw her in a heated argument with her best friend's husband. Before Joe confronted the other man in an altercation where he left him for dead, bleeding and unconscious. Now, Joe's life is unraveling. His wife has lied to him. Her...
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In 1974 at her new San Francisco school, nine-year-old Julie does not want to tell her class about her parents' divorce, or to tell her sister about messing up her school assignment, but when she breaks her finger playing basketball and her whole family rallies around her, she realizes the importance of telling the truth.
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After lying to spare a friend's feelings, Prilla, a mainland-visiting, clapping-talent fairy, finds herself spending a day as a butterfly herder, while strange things keep happening to her.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When her best friend Sea returns from her summer vacation claiming to have a boyfriend, twelve-year-old Tori is sure she is lying and makes up her own boyfriend, who just so happens to do everything better than Sea's boyfriend.
69) Your move, J.P.!
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1990.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Lovestruck J.P. finds himself doing all sorts of weird things to impress his new interest but his life becomes very complicated when a simple lie gets out of control.
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
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.
71) A day's work
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[1994]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Francisco, a young Mexican American boy, tries to help his grandfather find work, he discovers that even though the old man cannot speak English, he has something even more valuable to teach Francisco.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Tess has always loved math, and she uses mathematical concepts to help her understand things in her life, so she is dismayed to find out how much math--and life--can change in eighth grade.
Author
Series
Sparkella volume 3
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Sparkella is excited for her first playdate with the super cool new kid at school, Wyatt. But she's worried that all of her toys and games at home are too old, too homemade, or too un-cool, so she decides to 'borrow' a shiny racecar from her best friend, Tam, without asking. When Tam is upset that her car is missing, Sparkella feels bad, but she can't seem to make herself tell the truth about taking the toy. To make things right with her friend,...
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.
77) In the paint
Author
Series
South Side sports volume 1
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
For as long as he can remember, Matt has wanted to play basketball. Now, as he tries out for the team at his new middle school, he realizes that the easy days of elementary ball are over and that this is a much more serious game. Dealing with a hard-driving coach, competitive teammates and his own insecurities in a new school, Matt needs to call on all his skills, both on and off the court, to make the team and keep his head above water. When he is...
78) Thumped
Author
Series
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
Series
Owen and Eleanor volume 2
Publisher
Sparkhouse Family
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Owen is doing the same creative writing project for homeschooling that Eleanor is doing in public school! They have to write an interesting story about their lives. The problem is: their lives aren't that interesting. So Eleanor decides to fix the problem by doing exciting things--with not-so-great results. When they join a community martial arts class, Owen sees a different way to make an interesting story happen ... by making something up that...
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