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Gr 6-9 Three orphaned teenage siblings, separated by the tragic supposed patricide of their father by their two-year-old brother, reunite a year later to save this same brother from the clutches of their evil aunt, who wants to sell them out on a tell-all television show. The plot involves a lot of aimless meandering around their small Connecticut town, the characters are unremarkable, and the title, of course, gives away the myste...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

The Fountain children are marked by tragedy of the media-frenzy variety. Their mother decides to carry her fourth pregnancy to term despite the cancer threatening her life; a year after her much-publicized and -picketed death, the children's father is killed in a freak accident allegedly caused by that same baby, Tris. Now daughters Madison and Smithy have escaped to godparents and boarding school, respectively; and Jack shuns normal teenage pursuits to take care of Tris while their g...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

The Fountain children's father died in a freak accident allegedly caused by their baby brother. Now older brother Jack discovers Aunt Chery...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Caroline B. Cooney’s terse, matter-of-fact language is the perfect vehicle for this thriller about a family trying to return to normalcy just as someone sets in motion a sinister plan to exploit its darkest hour. Alternating between the viewpoints of Jack, Smithy, Madison, and their community of friends and neighbors, If the Witness Lied is both suspenseful and poignant in its depiction of the Fountain children’s desperation to keep their beloved baby brother from becoming the subject of a trashy television documentary—and to expose Aunt...Log In or Sign Up to Read More