Two Truths and a Lie Books

In order from It's Alive! to Forces of Nature
It's Alive!
Histories and Mysteries
Forces of Nature
It's Alive!
Histories and Mysteries
chapter • 176 Pages
It's Alive!
Book #1

It's Alive!

Written by Ammi-Joan Paquette and Laurie Ann Thompson & illustrated by Lisa K. Weber
9 - 12
Reading age
176
Page count
May 22, 2018
Publication date
Paperback
$10.99
$10.22

Summary

“Considering the fresh attention being paid to teaching a skeptical approach to information evaluation, this series opener couldn’t be better timed. A brief but savvy guide to responsible research methods adds further luster to this crowd pleaser.” –ALA Booklist (starred review)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 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 every three stories are completely true and one is an outright lie. Can you guess which? It’s not going to be easy. Some false stories are based on truth, and some of the true stories are just plain unbelievable. And they’re all accompanied by dozens of photos, maps, and illustrations. Amaze yourself and trick your friends as you sort out the fakes from the facts!Acclaimed authors Ammi-Joan Paquette and Laurie Ann Thompson have teamed up to create a series of sneaky stories about the natural world designed to amaze, disgust, and occasionally bamboozle you.

Two Truths and a Lie Series

Published from 2018 - 2019
3 books
chapter • 176 Pages
It's Alive!
Paperback
$10.99$10.22
chapter • 192 Pages
Histories and Mysteries
Hardcover
$17.99$16.97
chapter • 208 Pages
Forces of Nature
Hardcover
$17.99$16.73

The Creatives Behind the Books

    Author
    Ammi-Joan Paquette

    Ammi-Joan Paquette’s previous picture books include The Tiptoe Guide to Tracking Fairies and The Tiptoe Guide to Tracking Mermaids. She lives outside Boston, Massachusetts, and can be found at www.ajpaquette.com.

    Author
    Laurie Ann Thompson

    Laurie Ann Thompson loves capybaras, hates caves, and is ambivalent about mushy bananas. She is the coauthor of the Two Truths and a Lie series and author of several award-winning nonfiction books, including Emmanuel’s Dream, a picture book biography of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah, which was the recipient of the Schneider Family Book Award and was named an ALA Notable Book and a CCBC Choice, among other accolades. She lives outside Seattle with her family, and you can visit her online at www.lauriethompson.com.

    Author
    Ammi-Joan Pacquette

    I have been writing stories since early childhood. My sister and I would spend hours creating masterpieces of stapled paper and handwritten words, complete with pen-and-ink covers and boxed illustrations. Probably my favorite part of the process was creating a list for the back cover: “Don’t miss the other books in this series!” That list of eye-catching titles always seemed like way less work than (hand) writing out a whole book. But isn’t that just the way of things? The road to publication was long and winding, peppered with many small successes including: a variety of national magazine publications, being a 2005 PEN New England Susan P. Bloom Discovery Award honoree, and receiving the 2008 SCBWI’s Susan Landers Glass Scholarship Award, for the book that would later become Nowhere Girl. My first picture book, The Tiptoe Guide to Tracking Fairies, was published in 2009. I now live with my husband and two daughters in the Boston area, where I continue to write books for children and young adults. I am also an agent with the Erin Murphy Literary Agency (but that’s a story for another day). What more do you want to know? I am… mother, friend, reader, traveler, food-lover, chocolate connoisseur. I am not… especially tidy, a fan of mushy vegetables, or good at coming up with spur-of-the-moment self-portraits.

    Illustrator
    Lisa K. Weber

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