Porch Lies

Tales of Slicksters, Tricksters, and other Wily Characters

By: Patricia McKissack

Narrated by: Pamella D'Pella, Adenrele Ojo, Mirron Willis

Side-splittingly funny, spine-chillingly spooky, this companion to a Newbery Honor–winning anthology The Dark Thirty is filled with bad characters who know exactly how to charm.

From the author's note that takes us back to McKissack's own childhood when she would listen to stories told on her front porch... to the captivating introductions to each tale, in which the storyteller introduces himself and sets the stage for what follows... to the ten entertaining tales themselves, here is a worthy successor to McKissack's The Dark Thirty. In "The Best Lie Ever Told," meet Dooley Hunter, a trickster who spins an enormous whopper at the State Liar's contest. In "Aunt Gran and the Outlaws," watch a little old lady slickster outsmart Frank and Jesse James. And in "Cake Norris Lives On," come face to face with a man some folks believe may have died up to twenty-seven different times!

Critic reviews

Booklist starred review
Horn Book Magazine starred review
Publishers Weekly starred review

Great read aloud

Teachers, when you are teaching the students about slicksters and tricksters, this is the book. The characters are larger than life and like family. Great stories!

I loved all the stories and the characters voice changes

Nothing! I loved it all! I want to hear more of these stories! They help me do my work!

Porch Lies

just didn't care for this one. It was a boom club selection. I was bored.

Very boring

The book is horrible and they way they read this was so hard to understand