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"A "mind-blowing, page-turning, unputdownable" novel (Elif Batuman) about the fifteen-year fallout from a poisonous high school rumor, exploring how stories from the past can come to define who we are. A gifted and reclusive ghostwriter, Alice Lovett makes a living helping other people tell their stories. But she is haunted by the one story she cannot tell: the story of, as she puts it, "the things that happened while I was asleep." Back in 1999,...
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of Nothing to See Here comes an exuberant, bighearted novel about two teenage misfits who spectacularly collide one fateful summer, and the art they make that changes their lives forever. Sixteen-year-old Frankie Budge--aspiring writer, indifferent student, offbeat loner--is determined to make it through yet another sad summer in Coalfield, Tennessee, when she meets Zeke, a talented artist who has just moved...
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"Chief of Police Kate Burkholder investigates the brutal death of a young Amish man in An Evil Heart, the latest installment of the bestselling series by Linda Castillo. On a crisp autumn day in Painters Mill, Chief of Police Kate Burkholder responds to a call only to discover an Amish man who has been violently killed with a crossbow, his body abandoned on a dirt road. Aden Karn was just twenty years old, well liked, and from an upstanding Amish...
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"Six years after the fight that ended their friendship, Daphne Berg is shocked when Drue Cavanaugh walks back into her life, looking as lovely and successful as ever, with a massive favor to ask. Daphne hasn't spoken one word to Drue in all this time - she doesn't even hate-follow her ex-best friend on social media - so when Drue asks if she will be her maid-of-honor at the society wedding of the summer, Daphne is rightfully speechless. Drue was always...
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Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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"When ugly rumors and lies about Alice Franklin start after one of the guys she allegedly slept with at a party dies in a car accident, questions about truth arise in her small town"--Provided by publisher.
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Cassie McDowell's life in 1980s Minnesota seems perfectly wholesome. She lives on a farm, loves school, and has a crush on the nicest boy in class. Yes, there are her parents' strange parties and their parade of deviant guests, but she's grown accustomed to them. All that changes when someone comes hunting in Lilydale. One by one, local boys go missing. One by one, they return changed--violent, moody, and withdrawn. What happened to them becomes the...
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distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2004.
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English
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In Larry-Boy and the fib from outer space, when Junior Asparagus breaks Dad's favorite bowling plate he learns a little fib can turn into a huge monster. In Larry-Boy and the rumor weed, Junior Asparagus and Laura Carrot learn just how easily rumors get started when they accidentally plant a whopper. In Dave and the giant pickle, Bob the Tomato and Larry the Cucumber help kids learn that it makes no difference whether you are nine or two feet tall...
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Happy Yak
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Beware the Blue Bagoo! Join in with the detective who is on the trail of a mysterious blue creature in this fun picture book! A detective tries to uncover the truth about the infamous 'Blue Bagoo' - a creature so big and scary that it can't possibly be made up, can it? Our detective addresses us - the reader - on the very first page, and then walks the winding cobbled streets of a Dr Suess-esque seaside town, taking statements from the residents....
9) Easy A
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
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English
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After a little white lie about losing her virginity gets out, a clean cut high school girl sees her life paralleling Hester Prynne's in 'The Scarlet Letter, ' which she is currently studying in school. Hoping to become popular, she decides to use the rumor mill to advance her social and financial standing.
10) In too deep
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Publisher
Flux
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Trying to make her best friend Nick jealous, high school senior Sam becomes involved in a terrible lie that spirals out of control.
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Simon Spotlight/Nickelodeon
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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After SpongeBob's pet Gary starts biting everyone, a rumor spreads through town that he has a rare snail disease, and as the Snail Bite panic builds, everyone's zombie-like behavior leads to a manhunt for Gary.
12) I heard a rumor
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Scholastic
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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When the Madame X gossip column debuts in the Joyce Kilmer Gazette, students at Joyce Kilmer Middle School try to figure out who is behind it, which causes many rumors and distrust.
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Ballantine Books
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English
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"When a single mother hears a rumor outside her son's school, she never intends to pass it on. But one casual comment leads to another . . . and now there's no going back. Rumor has it that a notorious killer, a woman who has been released from prison years after her brutal crime, is living under a new identity in Joanna's seaside town. So who is the supposedly reformed murderer now living in their neighborhood? Suspicion falls on everyone. As Joanna...
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Olive books (Tor Freeman) volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
Description
Olive has been told a big secret and she tells someone else until it eventually reaches the person who first talked to her.
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Heidi Heckelbeck volume 18
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An embarrassing rumor about Lucy spreads at school and she thinks Bruce is behind it so Heidi gets involved and uses some magic to bring the trio of friends back together.
16) A slippery deck
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Publisher
Disney Books by Mail
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
Sebastian is always winning the card games he plays with his friends. Maybe he doesn't play fair, or does he?
17) The rumor game
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Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
Description
At Foxham Prep, a posh private school for Washington, D.C.'s elite, a rumor gains momentum as it collects followers on social media, pulling three girls into its path--Bryn, who wants to erase all memories of the mistake she made last summer; cheer captain Cora, who desperately wants to believe in her boyfriend's faithfulness; and shy Georgie, newly hot after a summer at fat camp and ready to reinvent herself--but who can stop a dangerous rumor once...
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Big Idea Productions
Pub. Date
2007, 1997.
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English
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Larry-Boy! & the Fib from Outer Space: Junior asparagus learns the importance of telling the truth after his little fib grows out of control.
Larry-Boy and the Rumor Weed: Junior Asparagus and Laura Carrot learn just how easily rumors get started when they accidentally launch a whopper about Larry-Boy's butler, Alfred! Before they know it, their little story is spreading all over Bumblyburg like a weed.
19) Cheat sheet
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Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
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English
Description
It's the annual statewide history test challenge, and Joyce Kilmer Middle School has never had a finalist until now! This year, there are two finalists, and they're both Jenny's friends. But one finalist isn't known for finishing at the top of the class, and The Pops figure someone must have cheated. The next day, the word is out all over the school! Could it be true? Is one of Jenny's friends a cheater?
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Publisher
Berkley, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The author of Nine Women, One Dress delivers a charming, unforgettable novel about four women, one little lie, and the big repercussions that unite them all. It wasn't supposed to happen this way. When Eliza Hunt created The Hudson Valley Ladies' Bulletin Board fifteen years ago she was happily entrenched in her picture-perfect suburban life with her husband and twin preschoolers. Now, with an empty nest and a crippling case of agoraphobia, the once-fun...
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