A Pack of Lies
by Geraldine McCaughrean
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Ailsa doesn't trust M.C.C. Berkshire, the mysterious man helping out in her mother's antique shop. The wonderful stories he tells about the antiques help to sell the items, but everything he says is a pack of lies, isn't it?Tags
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nessreader Both books apply fantasy to a mundane reality and both show how odd humans are.
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Ahh, the imagination! What a wonderful place to explore! A delightful read. Lots of fun stories and nice twists as we try to figure out who the storyteller really is. I'm going to be looking for more by this fabulous author!
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Author Information
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Geraldine McCaughrean was born in Enfield, England on June 6, 1951. She was educated at Christ Church College, Canterbury. She has written more than 160 books and plays for children and adults. Her writing career includes the retelling of such classics as One Thousand and One Arabian Nights, The Canterbury Tales, and The Bronze Cauldron: Myths and show more Legends of the World, which is a collection of stories from all over the world. She has received numerous awards including three Whitbread Children's Book Awards for A Little Lower Than the Angels, Gold Dust, and Not the End of the World. She also received the Guardian Prize and Carnegie Medal for A Pack of Lies, the Beefeater Children's Novel Award for Gold Dawn, the Michael L. Printz Award for The White Darkness, and the 2018 Carnegie Medal for children's and YA books for her middle-grade novel Where the World Ends. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Awards and Honors
Awards
Common Knowledge
- Original publication date
- 1988
- People/Characters
- Mrs Peavey; Ailsa Peavey; MCC Berkshire
- Dedication
- For Teresa Heapy
- First words
- She put down that she was interested in 'looking after animals' or 'heavy engineering'.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)'But oh! where could he possibly have gone without these?' she said to herself.
Classifications
- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, Children's Books, Young Adult
- DDC/MDS
- 823.914 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures English fiction 1900- 1901-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PZ7 — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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Statistics
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- 199
- Popularity
- 163,658
- Reviews
- 1
- Rating
- (4.05)
- Languages
- 7 — Chinese, Dutch, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook
- ISBNs
- 23
- ASINs
- 2
