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"Anna Green thought she was marrying Liam 'West' Weston for access to subsidized family housing while at UCLA. She also thought she'd signed divorce papers when the graduation caps were tossed, and they both went on their merry ways. Three years later, Anna is a starving artist living paycheck to paycheck while West is a Stanford professor. He may be one of four heirs to the Weston Foods conglomerate, but he has little interest in working for the...
6) For Real, I Paraded in My Underpants!: The Story of the Emperor's New Clothes as Told by the Emperor
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500L
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English
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Why on earth would an emperor walk down the street in his underpants? This first-person narrative provides readers with the answer - directly from the emperor himself - while subtly teaching about point of view and supporting curriculum standards.
7) Big whopper
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Pub. Date
2010
Lexile measure
490L
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English
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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.
8) The big lie
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460L
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English
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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.
11) Your move, J.P.!
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750L
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English
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"Spontaneous, natural, and humorous." -The Bulletin J.P. is in love, and it's making him do all sorts of weird things. Like using deodorant, bumping into walls, and imagining he hears serenading violins. J.P. has even forgotten his obsession with chess, too caught up in pondering the beauty of Angela Patricia Galsworthy, a girl who has just moved to town from London and has the most charming British accent. J.P. will do anything to impress Angela,...
12) Poison
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"Cass and Ryan Connor have achieved family nirvana. With three kids between them, a cat and a yard, a home they built and feathered, they seem to have the Modern Family dream. Their family, including Cass' two children from previous relationships, has recently moved to Seattle--a new start for their new lives. Cass and Ryan have stable, successful careers, and they are happy. But trouble begins almost imperceptibly. First with small omissions and...
13) A day's work
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560L
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Francisco, a young Mexican-American boy, helps his grandfather find work as a gardener, even though the old man cannot speak English and knows nothing about gardening.
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Jordan Starling enters the eighth grade after an uneventful summer. To compete with one of the popular girls, she makes up a summer romance. The only problem is the "romance" was with Ryan, the son of her mother's best friend. Now, Ryan's parents have split up and Ryan and his mom are coming to live with the Starlings.
15) Pretty baby
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She sees the teenage girl on the train platform, standing in the pouring rain, clutching an infant in her arms. She boards a train and is whisked away. But she can't get the girl out of her head... Heidi Wood has always been a charitable woman: she works for a nonprofit, takes in stray cats. Still, her husband and daughter are horrified when Heidi returns home one day with a young woman named Willow and her four-month-old baby in tow. Disheveled and...
16) The truth!
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Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Lexile measure
500L
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1 online resource (85 pages) : illustrations.
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English
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Caught "bending the truth" again, young David Mortimore Baxter decides to follow a strict diet of honesty which lands him in more trouble.
17) Liar!
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Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Lexile measure
550L
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1 online resource (71 pages) : illustrations.
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English
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A young boy relates some of the daily troubles caused by his uncontrollable problem--telling lies.
18) Stolen secrets
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The quiet community of Red Rock is upset by an apparent abduction attempt on two middle school girls.
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"By all appearances, Frank and Maggie share a happy, loving marriage. But for the past six months, they have not spoken. Not a sentence, not a single word. Maggie isn't sure what, exactly, provoked Frank's silence, though she has a few ideas... Then Frank finds Maggie collapsed in the kitchen, unconscious, an empty package of sleeping pills on the table. Rushed to the hospital, she is placed in a medically induced coma while the doctors assess the...