“Dad said this time the move would make things different.” 12-year-old Meg and her family have moved around a lot. Now they have just moved again to Indiana from Michigan and here was going to be her big opportunity to make a friend, but will she be able to chance it with her Dad around? When she meets Grace, one of the nicest and most popular girls in 6th grade, Meg is put to the ultimate test – she has to decide whether having a friend is worth telling the truth. In Karen Day’s Tall Tales, Meg struggles with the shame of not only her father’s alcoholism and abuse but of the lies she must tell to prevent her classmates from finding out her family’s secret. Tall Tales is the story of Meg’s courage to be honest to her friends but more importantly to herself. (Texas Library Association’s Bluebonnet nominee for 2008-2009)
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I’m honored to be featured on your blog! Thank you so much. Tall Tales is a story near and dear to my heart. I admire Meg’s strength and bravery as she tries to make a better life for herself. It took me five years to write this book and it went through many revisions. I knew I wanted to write about a girl growing up in an alcoholic family and I knew I wanted it to be realistic yet hopeful. Making the kind of changes Meg makes, especially in her thinking, are often impossible. I don’t see how Meg, or anyone, can do this without support and friends. And she finds a real friend in Grace, doesn’t she? I love talking about TALL TALES and I’d love to hear from any readers out there who would like to write to me!