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	McManus, Karen M. ONE OF US IS LYING New York : Delacorte, 2017 IL YA ISBN 978-1-52471-468-0 (3 booktalks)
Click on the book to read Amazon reviews	Booktalk #1 When Bayview High School’s most notorious gossip blogger dies under suspicious circumstances, the four seemingly unconnected students present at the time of his death all become top suspects. Nicknamed the Bayview Four by media outlets, Bronwyn is the perfect student, Addy is the popular girl, Nate is the drug dealer, and Cooper is a top athlete being scouted by colleges and even the MLB. At least, this is who they seem to be until the police discover their deepest, darkest secrets via Simon’s App, giving each of them a motive to wish Simon dead. But in every good murder mystery, things are not always what they seem. Did one of the Bayview Four take their revenge too far, or is the killer still out on the loose? Find out who is lying in this fast-paced mystery! Pennsylvania Young Reader’s Choice Award 2018-2019 Booktalk #2 Five students are stuck in detention for breaking Bayview High School’s no cell phone policy--except the phones they were caught with don’t belong to them. Four of those students have secrets that would be devastating if those secrets got out. One of those students runs a highly accurate gossip app that spills secrets most students want buried...and then he drops dead. Right there in detention. Now Bronwyn, Addy, Nate, and Cooper are desperate to prove their secrets aren’t the reason Simon was killed. The problem is, one of them has to be lying. (Jodi Kruse, R. A. Long High School https://evergreenbookaward.org/) Booktalk #3 What happens when five classmates walk into detention after school, but only four get out alive? What happens when each of them becomes a suspect in a murder investigation? Nate was already on probation, Bronwyn was getting ready to go to Yale, Cooper was being recruited as a pitcher, and Addy was preparing to be homecoming princess. Simon was getting ready to publish all of their secrets, but never made it out of the classroom. Who killed Simon, and which one of them is lying? ( Prepared by: Colette Schmidt, Ridge View High School, cschmidt@richland2.org for South Carolina Book Award)
	SUBJECTS: Detective and mystery fiction. High schools -- Fiction. Murder -- Fiction. Schools -- Fiction.

McManus, Karen M.
ONE OF US IS LYING
New York : Delacorte, 2017
IL YA
ISBN 978-1-52471-468-0

(3 booktalks)

Click on the book to read Amazon reviews

Booktalk #1

When Bayview High School’s most notorious gossip blogger dies under suspicious circumstances, the four seemingly unconnected students present at the time of his death all become top suspects. Nicknamed the Bayview Four by media outlets, Bronwyn is the perfect student, Addy is the popular girl, Nate is the drug dealer, and Cooper is a top athlete being scouted by colleges and even the MLB. At least, this is who they seem to be until the police discover their deepest, darkest secrets via Simon’s App, giving each of them a motive to wish Simon dead. But in every good murder mystery, things are not always what they seem. Did one of the Bayview Four take their revenge too far, or is the killer still out on the loose? Find out who is lying in this fast-paced mystery! Pennsylvania Young Reader’s Choice Award 2018-2019

Booktalk #2

Five students are stuck in detention for breaking Bayview High School’s no cell phone policy--except the phones they were caught with don’t belong to them. Four of those students have secrets that would be devastating if those secrets got out. One of those students runs a highly accurate gossip app that spills secrets most students want buried...and then he drops dead. Right there in detention. Now Bronwyn, Addy, Nate, and Cooper are desperate to prove their secrets aren’t the reason Simon was killed. The problem is, one of them has to be lying. (Jodi Kruse, R. A. Long High School https://evergreenbookaward.org/)

Booktalk #3

What happens when five classmates walk into detention after school, but only four get out alive? What happens when each of them becomes a suspect in a murder investigation? Nate was already on probation, Bronwyn was getting ready to go to Yale, Cooper was being recruited as a pitcher, and Addy was preparing to be homecoming princess. Simon was getting ready to publish all of their secrets, but never made it out of the classroom. Who killed Simon, and which one of them is lying? ( Prepared by: Colette Schmidt, Ridge View High School, cschmidt@richland2.org for South Carolina Book Award)

SUBJECTS:    Detective and mystery fiction.
                        High schools -- Fiction.
                        Murder -- Fiction.
                        Schools -- Fiction.