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Two Truths and a Lie - Blog Tour

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Can you tell the truth from a lie?  We live in a world filled with increasingly hyped up news, clickbait headlines, and flat out lies dressed up to look like truth. Parents and teachers are desperate for any tools we can find to help us build critical thinking skills and media literacy. TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE: IT’S ALIVE! By Ammi-Joan Paquette and Laurie A. Thompson ISBN: 9780062418791 Publication Date June 27, 2017 Two Truths and a Lie is the first book in a fascinating new series that presents some of the most crazy-but-true stories about the living world as well as a handful of stories that are too crazy to be true—and asks readers to separate facts from the fakes! Did you know that there is a fungus that can control the mind of an ant and make it do its bidding? Would you believe there is such a thing as a corpse flower—a ten-foot-tall plant with a blossom that smells like a zombie? How about a species of octopus that doesn’t live in water but rather lurks in trees in