"Twelve-year-old Aru Shah has a tendency to stretch the truth in order to fit in at school. While her classmates are jetting off to family vacations in exotic locales, she'll be spending her autumn break at home, in the Museum of Ancient Indian Art and Culture, waiting for her mom to return from her latest archeological trip. Is it any wonder that Aru makes up stories about being royalty, traveling to Paris, and having a chauffeur? One day, three...

Owen and his friends decide that spying on the school principal at his own house will be a fun challenge.

"Against the backdrop of the Sri Lankan Civil War, one Sinhalese girl must adapt to a new school, a new city, and new friends, while always staying true to herself"--

"Ava realizes she is not ok with another girl interested in her friend Chuck, and she also wants to help Pip's friend Jayda find her inner confidence, but a misstep leads to backlash, and Ava discovers that words can be powerful instigators." --

Having become a proficient liar in order to keep everyone happy, rising high school senior Katie Ellison is stunned when her old middle school friend and local pariah Tommy Sullivan returns to town, and suddenly things start looking a lot different to her.

As fifteen-year-old Garth is wrestling with the promise he made his mother to wait a while before coming out, his somewhat secretive uncle shows up unexpectedly for an extended visit.

When Jake loses his brand new toy airplane, Katie Woo lies and says that she does not know where it is.

A jackrabbit who wishes to be feared asks his fairy godrabbit for horns and becomes the first jackalope, but there's one condition: he must not tell lies.

"While eleven-year-old June is preparing for the school musical, her secret blog containing her innermost thoughts is released to the whole school, forcing her to deal with consequences of her dishonesty." --

Fourteen-year-old Kevin is very good at lying and doing so makes life easier, but when he finds himself in big trouble with his friends, family, and teachers, he must find a way to end his lies forever.