Porch Lies: Tales of Slicksters, Tricksters, and other Wily Characters-Fast Shipping

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Side-splittingly funny, spine-chillingly spooky, this companion to a Newbery Honor–winninganthology The Dark Thirty is filled with bad characters who know exactly how to charm.

From the author’snote that takes us back to McKissack’s own childhood when she would listen to storiestold on her front porch… to the captivating introductions to each tale, in whichthe storyteller introduces himself and sets the stage for what follows… to the tenentertaining 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 enormouswhopper at the State Liar’s contest. In “Aunt Gran and the Outlaws,” watch a littleold lady slickster outsmart Frank and Jesse James. And in “Cake Norris Lives On,” comeface to face with a man some folks believe may have died up to twenty-seven differenttimes!