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I Tell a Lie Every So Often

by Bruce Clements

Middle grade · ages 10–14 · grades 5–9 · 780L · 1974

Why we'd hand it over

A quiet, unflinching portrait of a 13-year-old liar wrestling with his own unreliability during the Civil War—literary and morally serious in a way that respects kid readers without preaching.

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I Tell a Lie Every So Often by Bruce Clements (ages 10–14) — ChapterScout