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Notes From A Liar And Her Dog by Gennifer Choldenko (view source)
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|title=Notes From A Liar And Her Dog
|author=Gennifer Choldenko
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Nicely judged tale of family dynamics in which an unreliable narrator gains sympathy but in which the reader is gently shown every avenue in which things are going wrong. The easy, casual style packs a genuine emotional impact.
|rating=4.5
|buy=Yes
|borrow=Yes
|pages=224
|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
|date=21 Jan January 2008
|isbn=978-0747587804
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Antonia MacPherson is always in trouble. She tells lies. Not fibs, but big, whacking lies. She's always doing it. It doesn't matter how often she gets into trouble. Ant's biggest whopper is the one about being adopted. It's a whopper of such enormous proportions that she has actually come to believe it herself. She keeps a scrapbook of letters she's written to her real parents, letters in which she pours out her miseries and looks forward to the day they come and rescue her from her fake parents, Mr and Mrs MacPherson.
Super stuff.
My thanks to the nice people at Bloomsbury for sending the book. We also have a review of [[No Passengers Beyond This Point by Gennifer Choldenko]].
If they enjoyed ''Notes From A Liar'', they might also like the last book in Hilary McKay's wonderful Casson series, [[Forever Rose]] in which lies cause trouble for poor Rose Casson.
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