Reading Lists

Honesty

Picture Books | Juvenile Fiction | Young Adult Fiction | Juvenile Non-Fiction

Picture Books & Easy Readers

Brown, Marc             
Arthur and the True Francine (JE BRO)
Francine and Muffy are good friends until Muffy lets Francine take the blame for cheating on a test.

Hoban, Russell          
A Bargain for Frances (JE READ HOB)
Thelma usually outsmarts Frances until Frances decides to teach her a lesson about friendship.

McKissack, Pat        
The Honest-to-Goodness Truth (JE MCK)
After promising never to lie, Libby learns that it's not always necessary to blurt out the whole truth either.

Ness, Evaline               
Sam, Bangs, and Moonshine (JE NES)
Relates the experiences of a little girl as she learns to tell the difference between make believe and real life.

Seuss, Dr.                  
And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street (JE SEU)
A boy imagines a series of incredible sights on his way home from school so that he will have an interesting report to give his father.

Juvenile Fiction

Bauer, Marion Dane            
On My Honor (JUV FICTION BAUER)
When his best friend drowns while they are both swimming in a treacherous river that they had promised never to go near, Joel is devastated and terrified at having to tell both sets of parents the terrible consequences of their disobedience.

Christopher, Matt             
Undercover Tailback (JUV FICTION CHRISTOPHER)
Parker Nolan, a notorious liar, must convince his teammates that he saw a mysterious stranger stealing football plays from the coach's playbook.

Coville, Bruce                       
The Skull of Truth (JUV FICTION COVILLE)
Charlie, a sixth-grader with a compulsion to tell lies, acquires a mysterious skull that forces its owner to tell only the truth, causing some awkward moments before he understands its power.

Lowry, Lois                           
Your Move, J.P.! (JUV FICTION LOWRY)
Lovestruck J.P. finds himself doing all sorts of weird things to impress his new interest but his life becomes very complicated when a simple lie gets out of control.

White, E.B.                    
The Trumpet of the Swan (JUV FICTION WHITE)
Knowing how to read and write is not enough for Louis, a voiceless Trumpeter Swan; his determination to learn to play a stolen trumpet takes him far from his wilderness home.

Young Adult Fiction

Avi                 
Nothing But the Truth : A Documentary Novel (YA FIC AVI)
A ninth-grader's suspension for singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" during homeroom becomes a national news story.

Juvenile Non-Fiction

Collodi, Carlo                
Pinocchio (JUV 398.2 COLLODI)
The adventures of the puppet boy created by an old Italian woodcarver from a piece of wood that talked.