Liar of Kudzu

Liar of Kudzu

Author: Bob Schooley

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2008-06-17

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 1439104425

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"Everybody calls me Liar. They don't mean no harm by it, it's just a plain fact that I am the finest truth bender in all of Dixon County. And not little weeny white lies. Big fat whopper ones that make people forget the question they asked in the first place." When a new girl, Justine, moves to town, Pete Larson -- better known as Liar -- is smitten. He gets his chance to impress her after a strange spacecraft crashes in the woods. Along with the class science geek, Bobby Ray Dobbs, they discover that the crashed UFO holds an amazing key to the future. But who's going to believe a kid named Liar? Bob Schooley and Mark McCorkle (creators of the hit animated series Kim Possible) introduce a character with a fresh and distinctive voice in this very funny, pitch-perfect look at three unlikely friends who try to make a difference.


The Common Core Approach to Building Literacy in Boys

The Common Core Approach to Building Literacy in Boys

Author: Liz Knowles

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2014-05-27

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1610696360

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Written with a focus on the English Language Arts Common Core Standards, this book provides a complete plan for developing a literacy program that focuses on boys pre-K through grade 12. Despite the fact that reading and literacy among boys has been an area of concern for years, this issue remains unresolved today. Additionally, the emphasis and focus have changed due to the implementation of the English Language Arts Common Core Standards. How can educators best encourage male students to read, and what new technologies and techniques can serve this objective? The Common Core Approach to Building Literacy in Boys is an essential resource and reference for teachers, librarians, and parents seeking to encourage reading in boys from preschool to 12th grade. Providing a wide array of useful, up-to-date information that emphasizes the English Language Arts Common Core Standards, the bibliographies and descriptions of effective strategies in this book will enable you to boost reading interest and performance in boys. The chapters cover 16 different topics of interest to boys, all accompanied by a complete bibliography for each subject area, discussion questions, writing connections, and annotated new and classic nonfiction titles. Information on specific magazines, annotated professional titles, books made into film, websites, and apps that will help you get boys interested in reading is also included.


Liar's Bloodline

Liar's Bloodline

Author: Lei Robison

Publisher: Artemis Publishing LLC

Published: 2020-10-13

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13:

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In 1993, Lanie Bragg’s life is moving along nicely. She owns a successful boutique, has a talented daughter in college, and has recently moved in with her new love, attorney Jay Billings. Upon hearing news of the death of the eccentric Artis Moore, the owner of the antique shop beside her boutique, Lanie is tossed headfirst into the story of the older woman’s intriguing and mysterious life and loves, including Buster Whitmire and baseball player, Benjamin Mason. Artis Moore, the daughter of one of the wealthiest men in the south, should have a carefree and happy life. Instead, she endures a string of misfortunes and heartaches that will change the lives of so many people, including Lanie's, over forty years later. Lanie has been asked to attend the reading of Artis’s will, where a life-altering secret is revealed, changing everything she thought she knew about her family and her life. LIAR'S BLOODLINE follows the interconnected lives of Lanie Bragg and Artis Moore over the course of more than forty years.


Boys' Life

Boys' Life

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 2007-08

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13:

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Boys' Life is the official youth magazine for the Boy Scouts of America. Published since 1911, it contains a proven mix of news, nature, sports, history, fiction, science, comics, and Scouting.


Oscar Wilde and the Art of Lying

Oscar Wilde and the Art of Lying

Author: D.D. Desjardins

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2019-01-03

Total Pages: 119

ISBN-13: 1527524140

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Utilizing Wilde’s own characters “Vivian” and “Cyril,” this critique in play format begins by discussing the playwright’s ideas on the relation of Art to Life, exploring his pronouncements on the artist’s true purpose. Wilde’s statement about the artist as a “creator of beauty”, found in his “Preface to the Picture of Dorian Gray”, is then examined with regard to his last and most popular play, The Importance of Being Earnest. Discussing …Earnest in extensis, this book discovers whether the elegant artificiality and epigrammatic conceits of contemporary farce prevail as beauty per Wilde’s earlier theories as expressed in The Decay of Lying. The consequence of Wilde’s assault on Victorian values is considered in terms of its social contribution to perceptions of beauty and the way in which we might appreciate both the playwright and …Earnest now.


Liar's Bench

Liar's Bench

Author: Kim Michele Richardson

Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corporation

Published: 2021-11-30

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 149673422X

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Includes recipes and a reading group guide (pages [254]-261).


Beach Trip

Beach Trip

Author: Cathy Holton

Publisher: Ballantine Books

Published: 2010-06-22

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 0345506006

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“Break out the tissues, sunblock, and margarita mix as four friends reunite after twenty-three years for a beach party in [this] feast of Southern friendship. . . . [Cathy] Holton refreshes the action with winning humor.”—Publishers Weekly Mel, Sara, Annie, and Lola have traveled diverse paths since their years together at a small Southern liberal arts college during the early 1980s. Mel, a mystery writer living in New York, is grappling with the aftermath of two failed marriages and a stalled writing career. Sara, an Atlanta attorney, struggles with her own slowly unraveling marriage. Annie, a successful Nashville businesswoman married to her childhood sweetheart, can’t seem to leave behind the regrets of her youth. And sweet-tempered Lola whiles away her hours—and her husband’s money—on little pills that keep her happy. Now the friends, all in their forties, converge on Lola’s lavish North Carolina beach house in an attempt to relive the carefree days of their college years. But as the week wears on and each woman’s hidden story is gradually revealed, these four friends learn that they must inevitably confront their shared past, and a secret that threatens to change their bond, and their lives, forever. “A brilliant, bubbly, bracing novel . . . packed with hilarity and heartache.”—Wichita Falls Times Record News


Little Bitty Lies

Little Bitty Lies

Author: Mary Kay Andrews

Publisher: Zondervan

Published: 2009-10-13

Total Pages: 461

ISBN-13: 0061827371

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“Little white lies have never been so risky—or so much fun.” — Orlando Sentinel New York Times bestselling author Mary Kay Andrews delivers a tantalizing tale about an abandoned Atlanta housewife and mother who tells one tiny white lie that sets her world spiraling outrageously out of control. This winning and wonderful romp focuses on all the important things in life: marriage and divorce, mothers and daughters, friendship and betrayal. Throw in small town secrets, one woman’s lifelong quest for home, and the perfect chicken salad recipe, and you have an ideal escape for fans of Fannie Flagg, Jennifer Crusie, Adriana Trigiani, Emily Giffin, and the Sweet Potato Queens.