My Big Mouth — Steven Camden

"Ten-year-old Jay discovers the difference between lying and storytelling when an impulsive lie at school gets out of hand in Steven Camden''s stunning first novel for middle grade readers.""A lie is selfish, a story is a gift,"" Dad always said. I never really understood. When Dad leaves, ten-year-old Jay has questions. Where has he gone? Why did he go? When the answers Jay gets aren''t enough, he starts to make up his own stories, setting off a chain reaction that sees regular old Jay go from just another face in the crowd, to the centre of attention. But being the coolest kid in school comes at a cost. And as things spiral out of control, the most unlikely person helps him learn the most important lesson of all.Funny and heart-warming, My Big Mouth by Steven Camden is about the nature of storytelling, friendship, family and the currency of cool."