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TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE: HISTORIES AND MYSTERIES By Ammi-Joan Paquette and Laurie Ann Thompson Walden Pond Press, 2018 ISBN:  978-0062418869 Publication Date: June 26, 2018 Source: publisher for review Ages 9-12 Middle grade nonfiction All opinions expressed are solely my own. ABOUT THE BOOK Unbelievable TRUTHS about outrageous people, places and events—with a few outright LIES hiding among them. Can you tell the fakes from the facts? Did you know that a young girl once saved an entire beach community from a devastating tsunami thanks to something she learned in her fourth-grade geography lesson? Or that there is a person alive today who generates her own magnetic field? Or how about the fact that Benjamin Franklin once challenged the Royal Academy of Brussels to devise a way to make farts smell good? Welcome to Two Truths and a Lie: Histories and Mysteries ! You know the game: Every story in this book is strange and astounding, but one out of every ...

TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE by Ammi-Joan Paquette and Laurie Ann Thompson Walden Pond Press, 2017 ISBN: 978-0-06-241879-1 Source: ARC from publisher for review Ages 9-12 Middle Grade Nonfiction All opinions expressed are solely my own. ABOUT THE BOOK Two Truths and a Lie is the first book in a fascinating new series that presents some of the most crazy-but-true stories about the living world as well as a handful of stories that are too crazy to be true—and asks readers to separate facts from the fakes! Did you know that there is a fungus that can control the mind of an ant and make it do its bidding? Would you believe there is such a thing as a corpse flower—a ten-foot-tall plant with a blossom that smells like a zombie? How about a species of octopus that doesn’t live in water but rather lurks in trees in the Pacific Northwest? Every story in this book is strange and astounding. But not all of them are real. Just like the old game in this book’s title, two out of eve...