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The skull of truth

Charlie, a sixth-grader with a compulsion to tell lies, acquires a mysterious skull that forces its owner to tell only the truth, causing some awkward moments before he understands its power.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Coville, Bruce
Other Authors:	Lippincott, Gary A.
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Clarion Books, 1997.
Series:	Magic shop ; 4
Subjects:	Honesty > Juvenile fiction. Friendship > Juvenile fiction. Family life > Juvenile fiction.
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Summary:	Charlie, a sixth-grader with a compulsion to tell lies, acquires a mysterious skull that forces its owner to tell only the truth, causing some awkward moments before he understands its power.
Physical Description:	194 pages
ISBN:	9780152060848 9780152046125 0152060847
Author Notes:	Bruce Coville was born in Syracuse, New York, on May 16, 1950. He spent one year at Duke University in North Carolina. Coville started working seriously at becoming a writer when he was seventeen. He was not able to start selling stories right away, so he had many other jobs, including toymaker, gravedigger, cookware salesman, and assembly line worker. Eventually, Coville became an elementary teacher, and worked with second and fourth graders. Coville married Katherine Dietz an artist, and they began trying to create books together. It wasn't until 1977 that they finally sold their first book, The Foolish Giant. They joined together on two other books after that, Sarah's Unicorn and The Monster's Ring, and followed them with Goblins in the Castle, Aliens Ate My Homework, and The World's Worst Fairy Godmother. (Bowker Author Biography)