A boy learns a lesson about the destructive power of gossip.

Maddie Faraday's life would be perfect--if it weren't for her cheating husband her suspicious daughter her gossipy mother her secretive best friend her nosy neighbors, and that guy she lost her virginity to twenty years ago... In Tell Me Lies, Jennifer Cruise dishes up a funny, sexy, suspenseful novel about small-town secrets, big-time betrayals and the redemptive power of love, laughter and chocolate brownies.

Maya goes to a school counselor when the new student she tried to befriend upsets her and other students by spreading rumors.

Nantucket writer Madeline King couldn't have picked a worse time to have writer's block. Her deadline is looming, her bills are piling up, and inspiration is in short supply. Madeline's best friend Grace, is hard at work transforming her garden into the envy of the island with the help of a ruggedly handsome landscape architect. Before she realizes it, Grace is on the verge of a decision that will irrevocably change her life. Could Grace's crisis...

In this retelling of a Jewish folktale, Yankel does not realize the harm done by the stories he spreads-- at least not until the rabbi teaches him an important (albeit gentle) lesson.

When Hen overhears some news on the farm, she runs to tell Duck, who tells another animal, and as the gossip is repeated from one animal to the next, it becomes unrecognizable.

Feared and loathed for her poison pen and ice queen persona, Amanda Dart has made her share of enemies. Then the tables are turned. An anonymous gossipmonger is faxing Amanda's personal and private peccadilloes to anyone who can read. Desperate to save her reputation, she enlists the help of New York lawyer and private investigator Stone Barrington to learn the identity of the faxer. And everyone in the world of tabloid journalism becomes a suspect....

In desperate need of cash, PhD candidate Shannon Everett agrees to help an NFL gossip blogger uncover personal details about the Baltimore Blaze football players and must make a tough decision when she uncovers a secret that could destroy a star player's career.

A comic misadventure presented from the viewpoints of sixth-grader Sofia Becker's male counterparts who consider their respective challenges with friendship, popularity and girls.

Miss Fox's class assumes their teacher's association with a police officer is something other than what it really is.