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Caught in a Lie, by Sylvia McNicoll ISBN: 0-590-24865-0 c2000 230 pages R.L. Points-6

Good sections to read aloud: -middle of page 8 through the end of page 9

Summary: Kimberly Rainer is a teenager obsessed with having a career as a model. SO obsessed that she decides to go out on a limb and have some photos taken to send to an agent. When she asks her parents about having some photos taken and finding an agent to help her make it, there is no discussion about it whatsoever....Kim is too young. Kim decides otherwise and finds an agent, but this agent costs money. Kim has to figure out a way to get the money out of her college bank account without her parents finding out. Even after Kim gets that situation figured out, so realizes that she has to buy clothes for the different shoots she continues to get asked to do...and, to top it off, she has to figure out a way to continue getting out of school as well because these shoots are during school hours. One lie leads to another and another. Can Kim keep these lies tucked away, or do mom and dad figure out what Kim is really up to these days?

YA Fiction--teen issues; modeling; middle school

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