Lions & Liars
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4.6 • 5 Ratings
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- $7.99
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
Frederick Frederickson has a food-chain theory about life. There are lions, like the school bully. Gazelles, like the bullied kids. There are meerkats, and the fleas that live on the butts of meerkats. Frederick's a flea.
Fifth grade is off to a terrible start when Frederick is sent to a disciplinary camp for troublesome boys. His fellow troop mates—Nosebleed, Specs, The Professor, and little-yet-lethal Ant Bite—are terrifying. But in between trust-building exercises and midnight escape attempts, a tenuous friendship grows between them. Which is lucky, because a Category 5 hurricane is coming and everyone will have to work together—lions and fleas alike—to survive!
Kate Beasley outdoes herself in this hilarious, whip-smart tale of brotherhood, survival, and what it really means to be a friend.
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Not much is likely to go well for a boy whose own parents named him Frederick Frederickson: even Frederick's best friend, Joel, tells him, "You need to accept that life is going to be horrible for you." So when an impending hurricane cancels Frederick's favorite event of the year a family cruise to the Caribbean he is not overjoyed he'll be home to attend Joel's birthday party after all. Things go downhill quickly from there when, at the party, Joel's prank to send Frederick on another cruise results in the boy accidentally falling into a rudderless boat; Frederick is saved from the alligator-infested waters only when he washes up hours later on the shores of a camp for troubled boys. Mistaken for a notorious camp veteran, Frederick has a brief turn at being a fearsome leader (the lion of the title). Over the course of the weekend and many comedic interludes highlighting his ineptitude at competition Frederick realizes he does not want to be king of the playground, the cafeteria, or anywhere else. He just wants a friend, but in order to have one, he will have to learn how to be one. Final art not seen by PW. Ages 8 12.
