Four Truths and a Lie
10 best books like Four Truths and a Lie (Lauren Barnholdt): Murder on the Fourth of July, The Melting of Maggie Bean, Models Don't Eat Chocolate Cookies, Take Two, Access Denied: And Other Eighth Grade Error Messages, Sammy Keyes and the Wedding Crasher, The Cupid Chronicles, Class Favorite, Flashcards of My Life, Rescuing Seneca Crane
| Author | Carolyn Keene |
| ISBN | 0671502956 |
America's top teen detectives team up to defuse a bombshell murder case. Nancy is in Seattle to join a whale-saving campaign. When a major fund-raiser is accused of murder, Nancy begins her own investigation. The Hardy brothers arrive in Seattle at the request of a fireworks manufacturer preparing...
| Author | Tricia Rayburn |
| ISBN | 1416933484 |
Maggie Bean is a top student, a loyal friend, and has a great sense of humor. But the past year's been kind of rough, what with her dad losing his job and her loads of schoolwork. Maggie's learned to cope by eating chocolate. Lots and lots of chocolate. So much so, that Maggie is dragged by her aunt to weekly...
Models Don't Eat Chocolate Cookies
| Author | Erin Dionne |
| ISBN | 0803732961 |
Walk the runway for all the world to see?
Nope. No way. NEVER.
At least, that's what I thought—until Aunt Doreen secretly entered me in the Miss HuskyPeach pageant for plus-sized girls. I couldn't do it, but I felt too guilty to quit.
There was only one way out...
This...
| Author | Julia DeVillers |
| ISBN | 1416975330 |
Take Two by Julia DeVillers and Jennifer Roy is from a a series that follows twins Payton and Emma.
From the publishers website:
TWIN SISTERS PAYTON and Emma have learned that "trading faces" can lead to "twin-dentical" chaos, and they've promised never to do it again. But just to be...
Access Denied: And Other Eighth Grade Error Messages
| Author | Denise Vega |
| ISBN | 0316034487 |
Reviewed by JodiG. for TeensReadToo.com
Erin Swift is sure that the eighth grade will be a far better experience than her last school year.
In seventh grade - the Year of Humiliating Events (or YOHE as she likes to refer to it) - Erin's private blog became a very public one. Everyone at...
| Author | Wendelin Van Draanen |
For junior high detective Sammy Keyes, eighth grade begins with an accusation, an inquisition, and several assorted death threats!
The history teacher, Mr. Vince, is being threatened, which at first seems funny. He’s horrible! Every student wants Mr. Vince gone. But as the threats become...
| Author | Coleen Murtagh Paratore |
| ISBN | 1416908676 |
When the only library in Bramble, Cape Cod, announces it's in danger of closing its doors, the town residents have got to raise BIG money and FAST. Thirteen-year-old Willa Havisham must put her crush on Joey Kennelly on the back burner to save the library, but the question is: How?Willa's best friend,...
| Author | Taylor Morris |
| ISBN | 1416935983 |
It all started three days after I officially became a woman -- the message of mass destruction arrived. It was February 14, to be exact. Happy Valentine's Day.
Sara Thurman has never considered herself part of the popular crowd - she's got her best friend Arlene and that seems like enough. But...
| Author | Charise Mericle Harper |
| ISBN | 0316166766 |
Sometimes the motivation behind censoring a book completely escapes me. Although I strongly believe that censorship is unnecessary and counterproductive to creating a populace that is engaged and intelligent, sometimes I can understand where the outrage comes from. Not that I ever agree, but I...
When Kari and Lucas first see Seneca Crane up on stage, playing the piano in front of hundreds of people, they are in awe. She is beautiful. She is amazingly talented. And she is only thirteen! But then they get to know her at the Edinburgh Arts Festival and realize that she envies them. Soon the three are...
| Author | Megan Karasch |
| ISBN | 1456315404 |
"Tales from My Hard Drive" is a romantic comedy that follows Melissa, a forty-year-old writer who moves from the suburbs of Los Angeles to New York City after finding her husband doing naked yoga-type maneuvers with another woman. Trying to find her place in a city run by the young and hip, she takes the...
| Author | Andrea Ferrari |
| ISBN | 8420473162 |
Francisco Méndez tiene catorce años, una inteligencia extraordinaria y una pasión: los libros de Sherlock Holmes. No sólo sabe más que nadie sobre el famoso detective, sino que razona como él. Sus familiares y amigos esperan que su brillo intelectual lo vuelva célebre, pero esas expectativas...
| Author | Bennett Madison |
| ISBN | 1595140867 |
It's the beginning of summer and all Lulu wants to do is have perfectly ordinary, non-crime-solving fun with her best friend Daisy, with her only problem being what to do about her friend-turned-boyfriend, Charlie, who has become less fun and more clingy since they started dating. No such luck for Lulu....
| Author | Barrie Summy |
| ISBN | 0385736029 |
SO HERE I am spending spring break in California with my best friend, Junie. Our chaperone is a teenager, like us. And soon I'll get to hang out with the coolest, cutest boy in the Southwest. Life is so good.
Except I should tell you that I'm not actually in San Diego for fun. Even though I'm a normal person...
| Author | Fiona Dunbar |
| ISBN | 0439740223 |
In a sparkling debut reminiscent of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, comes Fiona Dunbar's story of Lulu Baker, an ordinary twelve-year-old who discovers a magical secret.
Lulu Baker's dad is getting ready to marry his new girlfriend, world-famous model Varaminta le Bone. Everyone...
| Author | Lisa Yee |
| ISBN | 0439838479 |
This companion to MILLICENT MIN, GIRL GENIUS introduces us to Emily Ebers, average girl extraordinaire, and brings Lisa Yee's funny, touching story of friendship and family full circle.
Lisa Yee charmed audiences with the hilarious MILLICENT MIN, GIRL GENIUS and revealed another side...
| Author | Barbara Dee |
| ISBN | 1416994149 |
Sometimes your life just needs a little jolt. This is what Evie's new friend Francesca tells her, and soon enough, Evie's life has had something more like an earthquake. Francesca thinks life is dull unless you go after everything you want and say everything on your mind all the time--and sometimes that...
| Author | Lauren Myracle |
| ISBN | 0525423567 |
Winnie Perry is turning ten and ten is BIG: it means double digits, more responsibility, and being an almost-middle-schooler. Ten means that Winnie can handle anything, even a three-year-old baby brother and a practically teenage (and acting like it) older sister. And with her best friend, Amanda,...
"What if major events in modern history were planned decades ago?
What secrets lie behind the wall of an ancient temple in Kyoto?"
Newspaper reporter John Teddy’s miserable life is turned upside down when he uncovers a voice from the past—a voice that suspiciously knows far too much...
| Author | Destiny Webb |
| ISBN | 1938961846 |
Samantha Armstrong, the daughter of two high powered lawyers, has never had a problem getting her way. But when her parents’ last ditch attempt to save their marriage turns into a family affair, Samantha has no choice but to go with them to their summer cabin.
Despite the vow she made when she...
