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    Lies and Lemons
    Lies and Lemons
    Lies and Lemons
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    Lies and Lemons

    By Donna Jo Napoli

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    The Little Angel of Honesty would never tell a lie. But sometimes she does forget to explain the whole truth to her friends. Before she can earn her wings, this little angel has a lot to learn about what being honest really means. And she has to help a little girl who has the same problem.
    Celine is tired of being treated like a baby. But she's afraid to tell people how she really feels, so she starts telling little lies instead. One lie leads to another, and another and another. Pretty soon, even Celine can't tell the difference between the truth and the stories she's made up. Can the Little Angel of Honesty help her set the record straight?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAladdin
    Release dateOct 6, 2015
    ISBN9781481465878
    Lies and Lemons
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    Donna Jo Napoli

    Donna Jo Napoli is the acclaimed and award-winning author of many novels, both fantasies and contemporary stories. She won the Golden Kite Award for Stones in Water in 1997. Her novel Zel was named an American Bookseller Pick of the Lists, a Publishers Weekly Best Book, a Bulletin Blue Ribbon, and a School Library Journal Best Book, and a number of her novels have been selected as ALA Best Books. She is a professor of linguistics at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, where she lives with her husband. Visit her at DonnaJoNapoli.com.

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      Lies and Lemons - Donna Jo Napoli

      For Nick, the Champion of Truth

      Thank you to all my family, Brenda Bowen, Cylin Busby, Nöelle Paffett-Lugassy, Karen Riskin, and Richard Tchen

      Angel Talk

      Out of the corner of her eye, the Little Angel of Honesty saw the Archangel of Honesty waving both hands. She bowed her head and kept talking to her friends, pretending she hadn’t noticed.

      The archangel quickly walked up to the group of little angels. Hurry, she whispered in the ear of the littlest angel.

      Oh, you can talk out loud, said the Little Angel of Honesty. She got to her feet and stood on tiptoe. That way maybe the others wouldn’t notice how short she was. They all know that I have a big task to do.

      The archangel gave a small smile. And do they know that you’re late? You were supposed to meet me at dawn.

      The littlest angel looked around at her friends. I have to go now. To Venice. Bye. She put a bag of lemon drops on the lap of the nearest little angel.

      Ooo, lemon drops. Yum, said the little angel.

      Try them, all of you. They taste great, said the Little Angel of Honesty. But they smell even better.

      Thanks. Don’t drown in a canal, said one of the other little angels.

      And bring us back something made of that wonderful Italian blown glass. Maybe a family of little animals, said a third little angel.

      Or a glass angel, said a fourth little angel.

      Perfect, they all murmured together.

      The archangel looked at them in confusion. But we’re not—

      We have to rush, said the Little Angel of Honesty. She grabbed the archangel’s hand and pulled her along, running and waving behind at her friends.

      Now you’re all for speed, said the archangel, practically stumbling. We don’t have to go that fast. Please slow down.

      The Little Angel of Honesty slowed to a fast walk, but she still kept pulling the archangel.

      "Little angel, you do realize we’re not going to Venice, Italy. We’re only going to Venice, California. It’s right near that wonderful city named just for

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