Pants on Fire

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Cabot, Meg.  Pants on Fire. New York: HarperTeen, 2007. Print. ISBN: 0060880155. $16.99.

272 pages.  

Awards:

New York Times Children's Chapter Books Best Sellers List

A BookSense Pick

New York Public Library "Book for the Teen Age" 2008

Annotation:

Katie is a liar and a big one at that, but when her deepest secret resurfaces, she must face her lies and make things right.  Pants on Fire is fun and speaks to a lot of issues faced by teen girls today.

Book Talk Technique: The Wrap Around

Have you ever lied?  Maybe just a small white lie? 0r perhaps a giant elaborate one? Katie Ellison has.  In fact, she is becoming quite good at it.  Between running for Quahog Princess on a platform that she doesn’t believe in and hiding her two boyfriends from one another, Katie is into it pretty deep.  But when her former best friend moves back to town, she knows that she must either come clean or risk being exposed as a liar, liar Pants on Fire.

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