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Two Truths and a Lie: Histories and Mysteries Hardcover – June 26, 2018
Crazy-but-true stories about history, geography, and human achievement make this acclaimed nonfiction series perfect for fans of curiosities and wonders. A fun way for middle graders to explore ways to separate fact from fiction.
Did you know that a young girl once saved an entire beach community from a devastating tsunami thanks to something she learned in her fourth-grade geography lesson? Or that there is a person alive today who generates her own magnetic field? Or how about the fact that Benjamin Franklin once challenged the Royal Academy of Brussels to devise a way to make farts smell good?
Welcome to Two Truths and a Lie: Histories and Mysteries! You know thegame: Every story in this book is strangeand astounding, but one out of everythree is an outright lie.
Can you guesswhich stories are the facts and which arethe fakes? It’s not going to be easy. Somefalse stories are based on truth, and someof the true stories are just plain unbelievable!Don’t be fooled by the photos thataccompany each story—it’s going to takeall your smarts and some clever researchto root out the alternative facts.
From a train that transported dead people to antique photos of real fairies to a dog who was elected mayor, the stories in this book will amaze you! Just don’t believe everything you read. . . .
- Reading age8 - 12 years
- Print length192 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Grade level3 - 7
- Dimensions0.3 x 7.1 x 9.1 inches
- PublisherWalden Pond Press
- Publication dateJune 26, 2018
- ISBN-100062418866
- ISBN-13978-0062418869
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About the Author
Ammi-Joan Paquette loves caves, hates mushy bananas, and is ambivalent about capybaras. She is the coauthor of the Two Truths and a Lie series and the author of the novels Rules for Ghosting, Paradox, and Nowhere Girl as well as the Princess Juniper series and many more. She is also the recipient of a PEN/New England Susan P. Bloom Children’s Book Discovery Award honor. Joan lives outside Boston, Massachusetts, where she balances her own writing with her day job as a literary agent. You can visit her online at www.ajpaquette.com.
Laurie Ann Thompson loves capybaras, hates caves, and is ambivalent about mushy bananas. She is the coauthor of the Two Truths and a Lie series and author of several award-winning nonfiction books, including Emmanuel’s Dream, a picture book biography of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah, which was the recipient of the Schneider Family Book Award and was named an ALA Notable Book and a CCBC Choice, among other accolades. She lives outside Seattle with her family, and you can visit her online at www.lauriethompson.com.
Product details
- Publisher : Walden Pond Press; Illustrated edition (June 26, 2018)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 192 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0062418866
- ISBN-13 : 978-0062418869
- Reading age : 8 - 12 years
- Grade level : 3 - 7
- Item Weight : 1.54 pounds
- Dimensions : 0.3 x 7.1 x 9.1 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,495,374 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1,209 in Children's Questions & Answer Game Books
- #1,254 in Children's Mystery & Wonders Books (Books)
- #2,208 in Children's General Humor Books
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About the author
Laurie Ann Thompson grew up in rural northern Wisconsin and enjoyed a career in software engineering prior to becoming an author. She now lives between the mountains and the sea in the beautiful Pacific Northwest and spends her days writing for children and young adults to help her readers--and herself--make better sense of the world we all live in. She is co-author of the Two Truths and a Lie series and author of several award-winning nonfiction books, including: the Meet Your World series; Be a Changemaker, a teen guide to saving the world; and Emmanuel’s Dream, a picture book biography about Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah, which was the recipient of the Schneider Family Book Award and was named an ALA Notable Children’s Book and a CCBC Choice, among other accolades. Visit her online at lauriethompson.com.
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- Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2020Using this series for my research unit with my upper elementary library classes. They love it. Definitely better than the old, boring lessons. I highly recommend these books. I got extra paperback copies so that I could tear the pages out and let each table group have their own to read as they are researching the topics.
- Reviewed in the United States on July 23, 2018This series is perfect for helping to foster critical reading skills! It has excellent voice in the writing, making it an engaging nonfiction read.
- Reviewed in the United States on August 20, 2019Love this series! This is a really fabulous series that invites the reader to guess whether each chapter is true or false. As the title implies 2/3 of the chapters are based on fact and 1/3 on fiction. The authors are persuasive every time so determining what is true and what is not is a fun challenge for any age. Kids will enjoy the short chapters, intriguing topics, and surprises along the way. Highly recommend for reluctant readers.
- Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2019This wasn't what I had in mind when I ordered it. The book is divided into sections, but essentially you read three "chapters" and decide which one was completely made up. It just seemed like an awful lot of misinformation. I was going to gift it to my nephew, but once I received it I decided against it and chose a different book.
- Reviewed in the United States on November 26, 2019My kids and I love this series. It's great for family participation -- we all read each section and debate which part we think is true and which is the lie. Often the kids get it right and the grownups are wrong... which, needless to say, the kids love!
Really fantastic for teaching critical thinking.
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- WandererReviewed in Canada on March 14, 2019
5.0 out of 5 stars Get these books!
I LOVE these books! What rattling good stories! Each chapter has three tales which all sound equally plausible or ridiculous. The reader’s job? To pick the one that is true! Sounds easy, right? Well, just when I think I know which is the one, I find myself surprised! They’re geared for ages 8-12 but, as you can tell, even those older can thoroughly enjoy them. We are buying both for each of our girls’ homes so the grandkids can enjoy them. Who knows, I might even have to buy a set for myself, too 😉
- This Guy You KnowReviewed in the United Kingdom on August 7, 2019
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic Family Fun
My whole family (two grownups, an 8-year-old and an 11-year-old) love the Two Truths and A Lie series. They make for great family participation-- we all compete to see who can spot the lie!