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Porch Lies

By: Patricia McKissack
Narrated by: Pamella D'Pella, Adenrele Ojo, Mirron Willis
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Publisher's summary

Side-splittingly funny, spine-chillingly spooky, this companion to a Newbery Honor - winning anthology The Dark Thirty is filled with bad characters who know exactly how to charm. From the author's note that takes us back to McKissack's own childhood when she would listen to stories told on her front porch...to the captivating introductions to each tale, in which the storyteller introduces himself and sets the stage for what follows...to the 10 entertaining tales themselves, here is a worthy successor to McKissack's The Dark Thirty. In "The Best Lie Ever Told", meet Dooley Hunter, a trickster who spins an enormous whopper at the State Liar's contest. In "Aunt Gran and the Outlaws", watch a little old lady slickster outsmart Frank and Jesse James. And in "Cake Norris Lives On", come face to face with a man some folks believe may have died up to 27 different times!

©2007 Patricia McKissack (P)2007 Random House, Inc.
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"These 10 literate stories make for great leisure listening and knowing chuckles." ( School Library Journal)

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Great read aloud

Teachers, when you are teaching the students about slicksters and tricksters, this is the book. The characters are larger than life and like family. Great stories!

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A Great Find

love it, the stories were fun and entertaining, and the performance of each one was on point.i don't know if this was suppose to be a kids book but I'm long past that and I enjoyed it from beginning to end

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Porch Lies

just didn't care for this one. It was a boom club selection. I was bored.

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Very boring

The book is horrible and they way they read this was so hard to understand

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