cover image I TELL A LIE EVERY SO OFTEN

I TELL A LIE EVERY SO OFTEN

Bruce Clements, . . FSG/Sunburst, $5.95 (160pp) ISBN 978-0-374-43539-4

Fourteen-year-old Henry tells a casual lie that raises his older brother's suspicions that their cousin might be living among Indians in the Dakota Territory; the lie ends up sending him and his brother 500 miles up the Missouri River in 1848. Ages 10-up. (Sept.)