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	Beasley, Kate. LIONS & LIARS New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2018 IL 3-6 ISBN 9780374302634 (2 booktalks)
Click on the book to read Amazon reviews	Booktalk #1 Fredrick Fredrickson, yes that’s his real name, is elated to be going on a cruise with his family. He can relax from the pressures of school and be himself. When a hurricane cancels his trip, Fredrick is devastated. He decides to go to his friend’s birthday party at the last minute. When an argument begins between the friends, Fredrick finds himself floating away, on the river, in his friends’ boat. With no way of stopping, Fredrick lays down and goes to sleep. When he awakes he finds himself in a dream like state smelling pancakes. He runs ashore to find a breakfast buffet. What luck! After pigging out, Fredrick soon discovers he’s at a camp for troubled youth. When a notorious camper failed to arrive, Fredrick decides to reinvent himself as the absent delinquent. Can Fredrick become the person he’s always wanted to be or will the new group of campers find out he’s not who he says he is. (Pennsylvania Young Reader’s Choice Award 2019-2020) Booktalk #2 Doesn’t everybody want to be cool? Ten-year-old Frederick Frederickson wants to be that guy—“that guy who got laughs in class and walked through the school like he owned the place.” But he’s not. In fact, his friends tell him that in a world where kids are lions or gazelles, Frederick may just be more like the flea on a meerkat’s butt. So when Frederick ends up stranded at Camp Omigoshee in a strange twist of fate, he decides to take the opportunity to reinvent himself and take on the identity of Dashiell Blackwood, a camper who hasn’t arrived. But what Frederick doesn’t know is that Camp Omigoshee is not your ordinary summer camp. It’s a disciplinary camp for troubled boys—and Dash Blackwood has a far-reaching reputation for being one of the toughest of all. Frederick enjoys the reluctant admiration of his bunkmates, Nosebleed, Specs, the Professor, and Ant Bite, until things fall apart just as a category 5 hurricane hits the camp. This one’s filled with laugh-out-loud humor, adventure, and action, just perfect for any boy—or girl for that matter—who’s ever wanted to be more than a flea. (New Hampshire Great Stone Face Book Award nominee, 2020)
	SUBJECTS: Camps -- Fiction. Friendship -- Fiction. Hurricanes -- Fiction. Survival -- Fiction.

Beasley, Kate.
LIONS & LIARS
New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2018
IL 3-6
ISBN 9780374302634

(2 booktalks)

Click on the book to read Amazon reviews

Booktalk #1

Fredrick Fredrickson, yes that’s his real name, is elated to be going on a cruise with his family. He can relax from the pressures of school and be himself. When a hurricane cancels his trip, Fredrick is devastated. He decides to go to his friend’s birthday party at the last minute. When an argument begins between the friends, Fredrick finds himself floating away, on the river, in his friends’ boat. With no way of stopping, Fredrick lays down and goes to sleep. When he awakes he finds himself in a dream like state smelling pancakes. He runs ashore to find a breakfast buffet. What luck! After pigging out, Fredrick soon discovers he’s at a camp for troubled youth. When a notorious camper failed to arrive, Fredrick decides to reinvent himself as the absent delinquent. Can Fredrick become the person he’s always wanted to be or will the new group of campers find out he’s not who he says he is. (Pennsylvania Young Reader’s Choice Award 2019-2020)

Booktalk #2

Doesn’t everybody want to be cool? Ten-year-old Frederick Frederickson wants to be that guy—“that guy who got laughs in class and walked through the school like he owned the place.” But he’s not. In fact, his friends tell him that in a world where kids are lions or gazelles, Frederick may just be more like the flea on a meerkat’s butt.

So when Frederick ends up stranded at Camp Omigoshee in a strange twist of fate, he decides to take the opportunity to reinvent himself and take on the identity of Dashiell Blackwood, a camper who hasn’t arrived. But what Frederick doesn’t know is that Camp Omigoshee is not your ordinary summer camp. It’s a disciplinary camp for troubled boys—and Dash Blackwood has a far-reaching reputation for being one of the toughest of all. Frederick enjoys the reluctant admiration of his bunkmates, Nosebleed, Specs, the Professor, and Ant Bite, until things fall apart just as a category 5 hurricane hits the camp.

This one’s filled with laugh-out-loud humor, adventure, and action, just perfect for any boy—or girl for that matter—who’s ever wanted to be more than a flea. (New Hampshire Great Stone Face Book Award nominee, 2020)

SUBJECTS:     Camps -- Fiction.
                        Friendship -- Fiction.
                        Hurricanes -- Fiction.
                        Survival -- Fiction.