Harriet Price, a prefect at elite Rosemead Grammar, risks her perfect life by joining forces with bad-girl Will Everhart in a hoax to expose the school's many problems.
Throughout history and across the globe, scams have run rampant. Some con artists do it for fun, others for profit . . . and every once in a while, a faker saves the world.
"Geronimo is taking his [nephew] Benjamin on a trip to Rome to learn the city's history (and keep him from failing fifth grade), but when they arrive they are immediately pulled into the investigation of the 'ghost' of a gladiator that seems to behaunting the Colosseum and scaring tourists away"--From publisher.
"In August 1937 the local paper reported that a sea monster had been spotted near Nantucket, illuminating both the importance and cost of a free press"--Publisher provided.
Presents a collection of eleven stories that turned out to be hoaxes including Edgar Allan Poe's fantastic tale of a hot air balloon crossing the Atlantic in the 1840s.
"Whoppers presents the fascinating stories of over fifty people who lied for money, farme, honor, and sometimes, just for the heck of it."--from back cover.
