Khan, Hena

Summary: Fourth-grader Zayd yearns to play basketball on the Gold Team, but when he skips orchestra rehearsal to practice, his parents forbid anything basketball-related, and tryouts are coming soon.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Salaam Reads 2018

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC KHA

Taddonio, Lea

Summary: 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 that he'd rather make candy than scare children?

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Spellbound, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2020

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE TAD

Wells, Tina

Summary: While eleven-year-old June is preparing for the school musical, her secret blog containing her innermost thoughts is released to the whole school, forcing her to deal with consequences of her dishonesty.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WEL

Carr, Jan (M. J.)

Summary: After an author visits their classroom, Buddy and his friends are inspired to write about their pets, but something seems off about the things Bea is saying about her cat.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree Publishing Company, Inc. 2024

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE CAR

Paulsen, Gary.

Summary: Fourteen-year-old Kevin is very good at lying and doing so makes life easier, but when he finds himself in big trouble with his friends, family, and teachers, he must find a way to end his lies forever.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wendy Lamb Books 2011

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2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PAU

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC PAU

Rule, Adi

Summary: 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC RUL

Pitcock, Tiffany

Summary: Told from both viewpoints, after Jenny and Chance, a bookworm and a popular heartthrob, pretend friendship to save a doomed assignment, they are shocked to find a real friendship--and more--developing.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Swoon Reads 2017

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PIT

McDonald, Megan.

Summary: 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl 2007

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MCD

Melleby, Nicole

Summary: "When strong-willed, drama-loving eighth grader Brie Hutchens tells a lie because she isn't quite ready to come out to her mother, she must navigate the consequences in her relationships with her family, friends, and faith"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Young Readers 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MEL