This is one of a 'series' of book Turkle wrote about a Quaker boy named Obadiah. Wonderful sweet stories that teaches without preaching. ( )

This book was a good example of a historical fiction because it tells the story of a young Quaker living during the colonial era of the Northeast part of the United States. This story uses an actual historical time and place to place this story in. The characters of the story are fictional but the elements of the story, the time and the place are all not fictitious.
This story is the story of the little boy who called wolf set in colonial America. The main character, Obadiah, is always lying about things. And his lies are so outrageous that no one ever believes him so then when he loses his hat at a fair and tells his parts the truth, and the truth being really crazy, his parents do not believe him and tell him to stop lying about it. But then someone finds Obadiah's hat and asks his parents if they heard the crazy truth. The man tells them the same story Obadiah told and his parents know he wasn't lying to them.
Age Appropriateness: Intermediate
Media: Charcoal and Watercolors ( )